Julia Glyn-Pickett
Instagram: @thisiselsewhere2023
Julia Glyn-Pickett paints the presence of absence – the sedimentary patterning of life and losing. She makes and remakes to surface the residue of people, place and time. Themes relating to conflict and war reverberate against the intimacy of grief.
As the descendent of Polish, Italian, German Jew, Irish and Welsh migrants she is also curious about how we hold the untold in the shaping of our histories.
Her training as a sculptor has shaped how she now paints. She adds layers to then excavate, weaves in forms to evoke the tension between the silent and spoken, and creates three dimensional spaces for the viewer to inhabit.
Julia works mainly with materials that are themselves residue: clay, water-based paint, found objects and charcoal.
Bring Me In
Layers of acrylic and tinted water (poured onto a naked canvas to move freely until they settle) are used to explore grief
The End
Mixed media combine to evoke a three dimensional experience of what we leave behind
The Crossing
Acrylic, charcoal, ink, water and pastel are used to explore themes of war and displacement
