Approved: 31.12.2010

Julie Lawrence

Artist, Teacher

Approved: 31.12.2010

My work explores ideas of impermanence through the ephemeral nature of light and movement, and has an on-going concern with the relationship between matter and light. 

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Artist Statement

My work explores ideas of impermanence through the ephemeral nature of light and movement, and has an on-going concern with the relationship between matter and light. 

My  working process involves initiating  a body of work by walking and drawing. The drawings often reference an ambiguous figure moving through the landscape , whereas, in contrast, the oil paintings focus on a still horizon at the end of my walk and the sense of emptiness and mood.

Striving for a sense of something tangible within the intangible, I invite the viewer to find a still centre and quiet psychological territory which borders the threshold between nostalgic association and something unknown. 

 

CV & Education

Relevant qualifications:

BA First class ( Hons ) Art with Theology and religious studies, University of Chester

PGCE( Primary) ,University of Chester

Post graduate certificate in Special Needs Education.

MA in fine Art (2009) University of Chester

Exhibitions:

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Awards

The Yoshimoto prize:The Pastel Society 2023 exhibition at the mall galleries, London 

Visual Artists Association Finalist Emerging Artist Awards 2020 October 2020

National Open Art competition .  North of England Artist of the Year and regional prizewinner

Waterside 1-0  solo micro-commission  Manchester   ( Solo exhibition and award)

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Exhibitions:

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2023

Platforms project Athens September 2023

 

WSA Annual exhibition 12th August Williamson Art GalleryLiverpool Art Fair  June 30th -20th August 2023

?Beneath the Earth group exhibition Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 21st June- 8th Jully 2023

?Drawing Paper Show,  (publication and exhibition )Bridewell Gallery ,Liverpool July 2023

The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London 23rd May- 6th June

Contemprary Landscapes  Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 1st March-22nd March 2023

All the Small Things, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 1st March - 22nd March 2023

 

2022

The Darkness and the Light Water street Gallery Todmorden, West Yorkshire 10th November 2022- 29th January 2023

Fronteer independent art fair, Contemporary Art Space Chester. 26th -29th August 2022

Cass art Liverpool solo exhibition 18th -31st December 2022

Autumn Hampshire art fair Nadiawaterfield fine art 8th-r-30th October 2022

Technically Brilliant 'Wow' exhibition, Warrington 9th ctober - December 2022

 'Technically Brilliant 'gallery Warrington 'Horizons' 2022, and 'Friends of....2022

Tarpey Open 2022  Exhibition. castle Donington July- 14th August 2022

The Spring Hampshire Art Show, Stockbridge, Hampshire 23rd April-14th May 2022

'Pastel Society Annual exhibition 16th February -26th February 2022 Mall Galleries, London

Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 'Colour' themed  group exhibition 9th February -18th March 2022

Spring group exhibition Eden Gallery Newburgh Wigan 2nd march -28th may

Pastel Society Annual exhibition !6th -26th February 2022

' Colour' Themed group exhibition, Fronteer gallery Sheffield , 9th February- 18th March 

2021

‘In Isolation’ curated open exhibition, St. Helens world of glass art gallery 10th July -4th September 2021

Solo exhibition ( forthcoming) : Cass Art Liverpool December 2021

Wirral Open Studio Tour ( forthcoming)11th September 2021

Liverpool independents Bieniale group exhibition 'Ground' Cass art space Liverpool 1st-31st May

2020

Online Deepbridge Chester Arts Fair Curated collection (13 November-December 2020)

Ty Pawb Open exhibition Wrexham( An exhibition celebrating lockdown creativity ) Virtual tour 16th October

 Staacks gallery July 2020

2019

Staacks December exhibition

Liverpool Collection Dot-art gallery 21st November- January

'Hilbre Interpretations'  Staacks Gallery,  Group exhibition running throughout October 2019

'Transient Light' Solo exhibition of paintings and drawings: Staacks Gallery, August 2019

Wirral Society of Arts Exhibition,  Williamson Art Gallery, August 2019

Liverpool art fair June -september2019

Grosvenor Museum Chester open exhibition May 2019- September 2019

 

2018 

Staacks gallery Christmas exhibition ( December 2018)

Solo exhibition Cass art Liverpool ( October 2018)

'Light on Water' exhibition Dot -art gallery Liverpool August 11th 2018

Solo exhibition Staacks gallery West Kirby ( July 2018)

Our eARTh Climate Change  exhibition KUNSTHUIS  Gallery North Yorkshire March2018 -March 2019

 

2017

John Moores University Collection 

National Open Art Competition London November 2017( Regional prizewinner)

 Open Art Exhibtion Grosvenor Museum Chester: 9th March-21st June 2017

The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2017 Mall galleries, London.  21st February 2017

2015:2016

Liverpool Open at Editions Gallery May 12th-June 18th 2016

'Breath of Nature': Anniversary exhibition of Boundary Art, Cardiff. 27th March 2016- 1st May 2016

'Identity'  Art with a Heart Altringham ( Jan  2016)

PARTIA: Winter 2015 solo exhibition,Aintree university hospital

Awards

Visual Artists Association Finalist Emerging artist awards 2020 October 2020

National Open art competition 2017.  North of England artist of the Year

Waterside 1-0  solo micro-commission  Manchester March 2015 ( Solo exhibition and award)

Fotospace open submission 3, (finalist) Fife January  2015

Exhibitions 2014

Seeing Beckett' Contemporary art space, Chester ( alongside 'Staging Beckett at the Margins' conference Sept 12th) and then Liverpool John Moores University as part of the Liverpool Irish festival 23rd October- 3rd November 2014

Searching: Unexpected Treasures Bridewell studios and gallery Liverpool 12-21 September 2014

Open studios tour. June 2014

Liverpool Open at Editions Gallery May 23rd 2014 - June 21st 2014

Solo Exhibition: February 2014 -May 31st 2014 'U hang exhibition,' ArtGene', Barrow in Furness, Cumbria

 Exhibitions 2013 - 2009

Monochramatic exhibition in verge, Glasgow artists studios, Glasgow -

'Herstory' , The Link Gallery, Winchester -

'Archive 'Group, Theater Clywdd,

- Recollection, Chapel gallery, St. Helens Road, Ormskirk, Liverpool

- Lancashire Open exhibition Chapel gallery 

- MA Graduate show, Kingsway, University of Chester, Chester 2009