Hyperion - from the Significant Equine Skeleton project - in progress War Art & Surgery project image no. W.A.S.051 "Puck"  Etching & Aquatint produced for the Shakespeare Centenary 2016   "The Case for Drawing" conference drawing New York. for more examples please click :- drawings of conferences page

Drawing, Printmaking, Documentary drawing. Open Studio -  The 2017 September Open Studio studio weekend will be held on 23rd and 24th September.  Visitors will be warmly welcomed from 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. on both days.   For further information please visit http://cheshireopenstudios.org.uk/ There will be another opportunity to visit the studio just before Christmas in December - dates to be announced nearer the time. To arrange a studio visit at any other time during the year simply contact :- The Hollies Studio, Hartford, Cheshire, 01606 77006 enquiries julia@juliamidgley.co.uk Drawings of conferences produced in New York,  Lisbon, Porto, and the UK for examples please click here Conference drawings page Residencies  1997 - 2009 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 War Art & Surgery 2012 - 2015 War Art & Surgery is a contemporary response to surgeon artist Henry Tonks' WW1 pastel portraits of facial reconstruction. The project produced over 150 drawings representing military surgeons in training and the rehabilitation of recently wounded soldiers on their road to recovery. 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 Acquisitions Drawings can be viewed by appointment in the Cheshire studio. For further reportage projects click the documentary page link below Personal work  uses drawings of horses, often as a metaphor, sometimes as studies for larger works. There are new horse drawings on the Horses page . Printmaking  Visit the Printmaking page to see new 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

for drawings of conference proceedings - http://www.juliamidgley.co.uk/conference.html for most recently completed small works http://juliamidgleydrawings.blogspot.com/ for the Derwent Art Prize http://www.derwent-artprize.com/hyperion for the John Ruskin Prize 2015 shortlist http://www.thebigdraw.org/the-john-ruskin-prize-2015-shortlist-announced for reportage and printmaking http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian/war-art-and-surgery http://www.re-printmakers.com/members.aspx http://www.artistsinarchaeology.org/index.php/projects/work/contributor/julia_midgley http://reportager.uwe.ac.uk/midgley.htm

Drawings of Horses	Documentary	Printmaking	Chester Roman Amphitheatre	DLA Piper Residency