Wilma Johnson

Wilma Johnson (born in London, 1960) is an artist and writer living near Biarritz in France.
Family
She is the daughter of Financial Times journalist and economist Christopher Louis McIntosh Johnson and Anne Robbins (daughter of the economist Baron Robbins).
Work
She studied painting and photography at St Martin's College of Art from 1978-82. In 1980 she co-founded the Neo Naturists with Christine and Jennifer Binnie, Grayson Perry joined shortly afterwards and performed with them during the 1980s until Wilma left for Mexico in 1987. The three main founders reunited for a performance at the Hayward Gallery in June 2012, and a remastered early Neo Naturist film, The Private View, is being shown at the British Film Institute on 4th April 2014.
Johnson’s work has been included in: Secret Public - Last Days of the British Underground at the Kunstverein München, Germany, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and The Neo Naturists at England & Co in 2007. In 1987 she appeared in Michael Clark’s Hail the New Puritan.
Her memoir, Surf Mama: One Woman’s Search for Love, Happiness and the Perfect Wave (ISBN: 9781849535915), will be published by Summersdale in June 2014.

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