SPACE 1B : JULIA KENNEDY-BELL
Exhibition dates. 24 Aug - 4 Sept 2022
Opening Reception : Thur 25 Aug 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm.
Julia’s practice so far has explored the aspects of how abstraction can convey the relationship between the universal and personal experience, in particular developing my own personal language that has a set of differential marks, values and colours. These qualities of difference impart sensations and associations and become sites of interaction between the logical and the emotional, of the sensory and perception. Julia is a Sydney based artist who has been involved in many group and solo exhibitions, studio residencies in both is Sydney and internationally. She has exhibited at Bondi pavilion gallery, factory 49, SNO projects, 541 Artspace and has been included in the Mosman art prize, fishers’ ghost art prize, Deakin small sculpture art prize. Currently she has an upcoming exhibition at Black Cat Gallery and a Finalist in the Small work art prize at Lethbridge Gallery.
Her recent exhibition history has particularly seen her develop the installation side of her work and has been a transitional point into making what might be termed three dimensional paintings. Of particular interest is the relationship between forms and mediums and the way in which these mediums can be translated and transformed. Through this process new works emerge that reveal the ways in which images are made and then deconstructed. A state of equilibrium exists whereby new avenues for forms and relationships can integrate and illustrate those formal attributes that are so pivotal to the practice of painting and drawing.
In the series renew, Julia is exploring off cuts as stencils and combining them with her own language of shapes and forms to relay the idea of the personal and the universal. Contrasting the organic and the industrial, the conflict of these two motifs and the dynamics and tensions this presents. Using the idea of the grid in abstraction is a way to ground these differing forces while creating spaces for individual reflection.
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The Exhibition view
