Artist Statement
Julia Fry is a multi-disciplinary artist, with a fascination for detail and layering, which shows up across all the mediums she works with: film, drawing, painting, sculpting, mixed media and interactive events. Themes in Julia’s work are power / powerlessness and the othering that can occur from these. She expresses the tensions and beauty to be found in the dynamics of these opposites, which matches those found in nature and cosmology. Julia’s special interests in shamanism and psychotherapy feed into these themes.
Julia loves dots, lines and blending. She adores repetition, which is shamanic by nature, just like the beat of a shamanic drum that takes the listener on a journey inside themselves to the hidden spaces that expand. There’s beauty in the awareness that comes from a meditative trance process in the build up of layers of paint and the surrender of mind control.
Julia’s British Art Network member profile: https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/julia-fry/
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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
2024, Drumming in Venice, art research
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, Creativity is the First Medicine, Oil pastel and coloured biro on legal pad paper, A4
2021, The Black Hole, Watercolour pencils and chalk pastels on legal pad paper, A4
2021, Loving the Seed, Watercolour pencils on legal pad paper, A4
2021, Pink Dragon, Acrylic, oil pastel, ink pen and colour pencil on paper, 28.7 x 21 cm
2021, Being Human, Colour pencils on paper, 16 x 16 cm
2021, The Ant and the Butterfly, Acrylic on paper, A5
2021, The Wonderful Long Term Effects of Practising Compassion, Pigment pen on paper, 16 x 16 cm
2021, More Than the Sum of Our Parts, Pigment pen on paper, 15 x 15 cm
2021, Turning Over a New Leaf, Pigment pen on paper, 16 x 16 cm
2020, Breaking Through, Chalk pastel on paper, A4
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, Puddy Tat, Pigment pen on paper, 15 x 15 cm
2020, Wooden Heart, Pigment pen on paper, 15 x 15 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, Two Trees, VW Caddy, 1 year
2019, Letter to my Dad, Colour pencils on paper, A2
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
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