Drawing, Printmaking, Documentary drawing.
Open Studio events
The studio opens twice a year, usually for a weekend in September or October, and again mid December just before Christmas.
2016 Open Studio - Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th September 10.00 - 5.00 pm.
Direct enquiries for personal appointments are always welcome, please see contact details below:-
The Hollies Studio, 79 School Lane, Hartford, Cheshire CW8 1PG 01606 77006
enquiries julia@juliamidgley.co.uk
Documentary Projects:- have included :-
Drawings of conferences
see Conference drawings page
plus:-
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
and most recently......
War
Art & Surgery 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.
Information about future displays will be posted
here. View the project :-
album
YouTube
documentary page,
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 enquries please contact:-
studio 01606 77006 or
e mail julia@juliamidgley.co.uk
For further reportage projects click on documentary page link below
Personal work uses drawings of horses, often as a metaphor, often 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 and 2000 Laing
Landscape Awards (Manchester)
1996 The Rainford
Trust Prize ( painting )
1996 The Gainsborough's
House Prize ( printmaking , and ... most recently in
2007 Coast National competition and exhibition ( painting )
2009 The Printmaking Today Prize -
R.E. Annual exhibition Bankside Gallery London
2015 Shortlisted Ruskin Drawing Prize ( War Art & Surgery )
2016 Shortlisted - Derwent Drawing Prize
Professional Memberships:-
Fellow The Royal
Society of Painter Printmakers, R.E.
Reader in Documentary
Drawing at Liverpool School Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University ( ret'd 2013). Reportager
Affiliate member Medical Artists Association
Member & past Vice
President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts;
C.A.N. (Cheshire Artists
Network)
The Chelsea Arts Club
email: julia@juliamidgley.co.uk. or call 01606 77006
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