| My name is Julie and I'm a 36yr old painter living and working in Dublin. I currently share a studio in Dublin city centre. I work primarily on sized paper and wood in oils/mixed media. At the moment I am working on a series of collage pieces about memory. My work draws on my own life experiences as well as the world around me, in a storytelling and a visual sense, using pure colour. My painting is mostly figurative-based, and is about communication between human beings, non-communication and mis-communication. I'm exploring the sense of how we perceive ourselves, through our relationships with other people and how we act around and are influenced by those people. My Artistic Education: 1990-1993 Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin 1 Diploma in Fine Art with 2.1 Honours 1989-1990 Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin 1 Certificate in Art and Design 1988-1989 Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin 10 Certificate in Art, Design and Media with Distinction My Exhibitions to date: "Veil" 2004 Safehouse Arts Gallery 25 Donegall Street, Belfast Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland Julies Solo Show Group Show 2003: Henrietta Street Artists Collective Henrietta Street Dublin 1 Invitation Group show 2003: 6 x 6 for Ireland 411 Gallery Hangzhou, China 411 Galleries China Art Fair 2000: Art Ireland Exhibition Fair (Solo stand) RDS, Simmonscourt, Dublin 4 Other Group shows: 2000 Oireachtas County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 1993 Final Year Diploma Show Portland Row, Dublin 1992 Room for Collaboration IMMA, Kilmainham, Dublin 1992 Imago Irish life Mall, Dublin Favourite Painters: Picasso Tapies Gaudi Rothko Motherwell Serra Giacommetti Kokoschka Freud Bacon Goya The French Symbolists such as Carriere, Moreau, Redon, Denis on whom I did my thesis in college to name but a few. Irish painters also are very inspirational and important to me: Patricia Hurl Paddy Graham Brian Maguire Brian Bourke Barrie Cooke My favourite painting is by Tintoretto "The Carrying of St. Mark from the Temple" Click here to view this masterpiece! I hope you enjoyed looking at my work! |
