MSR FCJ

In rejection of conventional attitudes towards art, Mike S. Redmond and Faye Coral Johnson (MSR FCJ) consciously push experimental ideas of lo-fi making through an escapist process that they approach with playful spontaneity. Comics are large scale, abstract is figurative, ephemeral is treasure, narrative is ambiguous and context is obscured with wordplay that gives some skunk a scent. Reworked and built up over time, mutating scenes reveal themselves through their back and forth process. Figures and forms exist in places that they sit and leave tracks under new marks like piles of doodles forming in a sketchbook. Through this collaborative exchange, somewhere between the chaos and harmony of melding visual ideas, there is a complete merging, a third view, a middle ground, that is unforeseen and mind-bogglingly personal. “We are interested in work that is usually unseen, or disregarded, “they say. “All those untouched, deep, inner works that aren’t self-conscious, precious or even finished.”

Since 2006 MSR FCJ have been filling walls and pages throughout the UK, Europe and the US. They have been published worldwide, exhibited throughout the UK, France, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden, and have been awarded residences in the UK, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and South Africa.