Blog – Page 3 – Julia Fry

Seminal (2017)

Seminal began with the red shape that grew into a teardrop. I worked intuitively and followed my urges, no matter how strange the drawing appeared.

The White Frame Series (2016)

After graduating with a 2:1 in Moving Image, the desire to make art, for art’s sake, had gone.

Singularity started as a zombie film but evolved into a movie-graphic novel-essay on alterity – “the quality or state of being radically alien to a particular cultural orientation”¹. During the project, I read loads about transhumanism², which was why my zombies turned out not to be zombies at all.

Bike Hub (2015)

Bike Hub¹ is a community bicycle workshop that originally existed in a derelict building marked for demolition. I volunteered at the project and wanted to see if I could capture a sense of what it was like there so I made a documentary.

Skeletal Sunset (2014)

I made this short film to celebrate the beautiful light of the sun setting by the skeletal remains of the West Pier in Brighton. It’s a meditative film with the only narrative being that of seagulls visiting the ironwork.

Play in my Flat (2014)

Play in my Flat was a site-specific play/film/performance in my flat in Brighton, UK. Scenes were filmed in three rooms in my flat: lounge, bedroom and kitchen. Three screens were installed, one in each room, and room-specific scenes were screened during the performance.

Not Punch and Judy: The Chronicle and Story of an Experiment in Emergent Practice (2014)

Not Punch and Judy is a short film depicting the process of puppet-making and the story of how limiting beliefs can be formed, against a backdrop of questioning the domestic abuse portrayed in Punch and Judy shows.

Legal High (2011)

Legal High (2011)
50 x 40 x 1 cm
Acrylic, emulsion, dish scourers, and anti depressants on canvas

I was going through a hard time with my mental health and my GP advised me to start taking anti-depressants every time I saw her. I caved in after yet another request for long-term psychotherapy was turned down.

Constellation (2009)

Constellation (2009)
60 x 50 x 4 cm
Acrylic on canvas

I came home from work one evening in 2007 feeling frustrated and annoyed, grabbed the nearest canvas, which was painted in a block dark red and threw black paint at it, smearing it all over until no red showed; then I used my finger to draw the humanoid figure sitting on a chair.