Artist Statement
Multi-disciplinary artist currently exploring connection with my ancestors through sculpture and embroidery, using an intuitive, shamanic process to build layers. It’s a similar process to my paintings, which have layers of dots, lines, and blending. Themes in my work are power/powerlessness and the othering that can occur from these. I express the tensions and beauty to be found in the dynamics of these opposites, which matches those found in nature and cosmology.
Mixed media sculpture,
25 x 36 x 25 cm (h x w x d)
Mixed media sculpture
7 x 5 x 5 cm
Awards, Exhibitions & Education
2025 Maps and Minds: A Journey with Willem van Genk online group exhibition
2025 Step Up: Van Genk Curating Exhibitions, Outside In
2024 British Council Fellowship Venice Panel 2025, Outside In
2024 Rattle and Drumming, Outside In
2024 British Council Venice Fellowships Programme
2024 Brighton & Hove Creative Museum Home Workshop
2023 Brighton & Hove Creative Museum Home Workshop
2023 Outside In’s Artist of the Month
2023 Chaos Dragon and the Light Film Review article
2023 MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy – Contemporary Creative Approaches, Edge Hill University
2023 Arts for the Blues, Swan Women’s Centre
2021 Artists Responding To…
2020 Andrew Edney Bursary
2019 Dubuffet Mindful Art Workshop for investment bankers, Outside In
2019 Step Up Leading Workshops, Outside In
2015 Platform 15 nominee for Singularity, CVAN South East
2015 BA (Hons) Moving Image, University of Brighton
2011 Independent Artist Open House, Sillwood Street Brighton
Artworks – Date, Title, Medium, Size
2025, Black Hole of Loneliness, Mixed media sculpture, 25 x 36 x 25 cm (h x w x d)
2024, Rattle, Mixed media sculpture, 7.5 x 5 x 5 cm
2024, Synthesis, Acrylic, fabric and thread on canvas, 80 x 50 x 3.5 cm
2023, Othering Me, Othering You, Wool sculpture
2023, Golden Triangles, Acrylic on canvas, 22.5 x 31 cm
2022, Grief, Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 60 cm
2021, Turning Over a New Leaf, Pigment pen on paper, 16 x 16 cm
2020, Sunset Teardrop, Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 60 x 80 cm
2020, Breakthrough, Acrylic, chalk pastel and ink on watercolour paper, 14.8 x 10.5 cm
2020, Forming and Unforming, Pigment pen on paper, 16 x 16 cm
2020, Square Dots #2, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in
2020, Square Dots #1, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in
2020, Spring Wonderland, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in
2020, Cruel Britannia, Found object, string and acrylic on canvas, 39 x 39 x 4 cm
2020, White Trash, Found object, trash, thread and acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in
2020, Triangle Lines and Sunlight Patches, Acrylic on canvas, 51.5 x 40.5 cm
2020, Reeds, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in
2020, It’s Okay to Look, Acrylic on canvas, 51.5 x 40.5 cm
2020, Autumn Winter Light, Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
2019, Wonderland, Adventure playground for grown ups event, 2 hours
2019, Wonderland, Adventure playground for grown ups event, 2 hours
2018, Power Up, Mixed media booklet, A5
2018, Insight, Colour pencils on paper, A4
2017, Perceiving, Colour pencils on paper, A5
2017, Seminal, Colour pencils on paper, A5
2016, The White Frame Series, Colour pencils on paper, 55 x 50 cm
2015, Singularity, Video, 18:07 mins
2015, Bike Hub A Documentary, Video, 20:08 mins
2014, Skeletal Sunset, Video, 04:08 mins
2014, Play in my Flat Performance 140322, Video, 34:21 mins
2014, Play in my Flat Performance 140321, Video, 53:51 mins
2014, Play in my Flat, Video, 22:15 mins
2014, Not Punch and Judy: The Chronicle and Story of an Experiment in Emergent Practice, Video, 09:05 mins
2013, Adaptations, Video, 05:53
2013, Alice’s Adventures at Black Rock, Video, 11:09 mins
2011, Legal High, Acrylic, emulsion, dish scourers and anti-depressants on canvas, 50 x 40 x 1cm
2009, Constellation, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 x 4 cm
My British Art Network member profile: https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/julia-fry/
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