Dr. Owen Johnson is a Toronto-based artist focused on casting, pattern-making and drawing. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and completed an undergraduate in Glass at the Australian National University. Moving to London, Johnson completed a Ph.D. researching appropriation, post-colonialism and ornamental expression at the Royal College of Art. He then immigrated to Canada, taking the role of temporary studiohead in the glass studio at Sheridan College, were he still teaches.