Drawing, Printmaking, Documentary drawing.
Open Studio December 2018
The
studio will next be open and welcoming visitors on Sunday 9th December 2018 from 11.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. This
pre Christmas opening will offer a festive welcome with mulled wine and
home made seasonal refreshments all in aid of the Artists General
Benevolent Fund. New
work from recent residencies including the WW1 centenary drawings with
The Queens Own Yeomanry, Chester, and new drawings for The Royal
Watercolour Society of on site construction of their Whitcomb Street
premises London. New etchings, working processes and the popular Bargain Boxes will all be on display. To arrange a personal studio visit at any other time during the year simply contact :- The Hollies Studio, 07887 525050
enquiries julia@juliamidgley.co.uk
Personal work
uses drawings of horses, often as a metaphor, sometimes as studies for larger works.
New horse drawings are on the Horses page. High
quality reproductions of all drawings and landscapes can be ordered
from the studio whilst reproductions of landscapes and horse drawings
can be viewed here: Looks Good on the Wall
Documentary drawing Drawings of conferences
produced in New York, Lisbon, Porto, and the UK
for examples please click here
Conference drawings page
Residencies
2017 - 2018 Resident Artist to LJMU Roscoe Lecture series 2012 - 2015 War
Art & Surgery
War Art & Surgery is a contemporary response
to surgeon artist Henry Tonks' WW1 pastel portraits of facial
reconstruction. Over 150
drawings representing
military surgeons in training and the rehabilitation of recently
wounded soldiers on their road to recovery were produced.
View the project :-
album
YouTube
website
blog
Project publication:
"War, Art and Surgery: Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in the work of Henry Tonks and
Julia Midgley"
edited by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, available here
Drawings can be viewed by appointment in the Cheshire studio.
For further reportage projects click the documentary link below
residency back catalogue:-
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Hospital Trust 1997 - 1999
Granada Television Regional News for Year of the Artist 2000 - 2001
Blackpool Pleasure Beach 2000 - 2002
Chester Roman Amphitheatre 2004 - 2005
Liverpool Cathedral 2005
Stonehenge Riverside Project 2007 - 2009
Printmaking
Visit the Printmaking page to see new edition "Parade" and award winning etchings or click on the appropriate image below for Personal, Documentary, Horses, Amphitheatre, and DLA Piper pages.
Awards:
1993 & 2000 Laing
Landscape Awards (Manchester)
1995 The Rainford
Trust Prize ( painting )
1995 The Gainsborough's
House Prize ( printmaking) 2007 Coast National competition and exhibition ( painting )
2009 Printmaking Today Prize -
R.E. Annual, Bankside Gallery, London
2015 Shortlisted - Ruskin Drawing Prize ( War Art & Surgery )
2016 Shortlisted - Derwent Drawing Prize
(Equine Skeleton drawing )
Professional Memberships:-
Fellow The Royal
Society of Painter Printmakers, R.E.
Associate Royal Watercolour Society, A.R.W.S. Reader in Documentary
Drawing, Liverpool School Art & Design, Liverpool
John Moores University ( ret'd 2013). Member Reportager Affiliate member Medical Artists Association Member & past Vice
President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts C.A.N. (Cheshire Artists
Network)
julia@juliamidgley.co.uk. or 01606 77006 mob. 07887 525050
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