Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH <strong>2020</strong><br />
Julie Barratt<br />
Australia<br />
juliembarratt.wordpress.com<br />
About<br />
Julie Barratt is an Australian artist who lives and works on<br />
Darumbal country in the tiny remote community of Zilzie on<br />
the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. Julie is a visual<br />
artist, curator and arts industry professional whose practise<br />
encompasses printmaking, photography, artist books, works<br />
on paper and installation. In addition to her solo practise, she<br />
collaborates with other printmakers, book artists, writers,<br />
sound and performance artists.<br />
Julie is passionate about community arts and artists,<br />
inclusion and accessibility and this is apparent in her work<br />
as an arts industry professional who has worked for many<br />
years in the sector as a curator, regional manager and<br />
producer. She is regionally located and globally connected,<br />
and has worked in places as far flung as as New York, Seoul,<br />
Wilcannia, Bristol, and Kathmandu, where she set up art<br />
studios for young deaf Nepali women as a stepping stone<br />
into employment.<br />
Predominant themes in Julie’s work lie in narrative explorations<br />
of the human condition, personal, family and place histories,<br />
and the consciousness of objects. Her works are often sitespecific,<br />
responding to environmental energetics and often<br />
include elements that are labour intensive and contemplative.<br />
Living in close proximity to the ocean and the elements has<br />
provoked a renewed awareness of our fragile environment<br />
and the subtle dependencies between water, life and nature<br />
in our eco-system. Julie’s most recent works on paper are a<br />
collaboration with the tide pools at the bottom of her garden.<br />
The Isolation Files<br />
Borders were closing, and all the while the smell of fresh<br />
bread baking in the kitchen and snow softly falling, rendering<br />
the landscape soft and dreamy, added to the very surreal<br />
feeling of being in some sort of a dream! I was handed a<br />
sheath of papers with the latest updates from Australia and I<br />
continued to focus on my creative work as a diversion to the<br />
ever escalating feelings of panic, of being ‘stuck’, of fear of<br />
family members becoming sick. In this mindset my creative<br />
work gradually developed over the following weeks into a<br />
Unique Artist Book titled ‘The Isolation Files’.<br />
The Isolation Files Artist Book is a visual diary of my thoughts<br />
and feelings during a month of turbulence and escalating<br />
world fear, rendered through the mediums of photographs,<br />
screen and stencil printing, stitching and mixed media. I<br />
began the month of my <strong>Arteles</strong> residency reading the sublime<br />
poetry of Mary Oliver, by the end of the month I was reading<br />
constant ABC updates on COVID 19.<br />
With all flights currently suspended to Australia at the time of<br />
writing , I contemplate life in the Finnish woods and how best<br />
to utilize this unforeseen gift of time...<br />
breathe in breathe out.