Julie Ellis Artist

Tony Godfrey Talk

Tony Godfrey Talk

Today I watched the Tony Godfrey Talk on the DLE ‘Painting in the age of Installation Art’. Godfrey is the author of Conceptual Painting and Painting Today and has contributed to Art in America and the Burlington Magazine. Formerly Programme Director of the MA in...
Gaston Bachelard’s words – My words

Gaston Bachelard’s words – My words

Pg 7 It is body and soul. It is the human being’s first world. Before he is “cast into the world,” as claimed by certain hasty metaphysics, man is laid in the cradle of the house… Life begins well, it begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom...
Studio – Clay and Jesmonite – Images

Studio – Clay and Jesmonite – Images

Bachelard handles the most fragile shell, the most delicate “cottage chrysalis,” the most simple containers. To imagine living in a seashell, to live withdrawn into one’s shell, is to accept solitude-and to embrace, even if momentarily, the whole...
Performative Lecture/Presentation

Performative Lecture/Presentation

I have floundered a little on the idea of producing a performative presentation for this assignment. Primarily this is because I would be unlikely use performance as a medium for my own practice and this association is uncomfortable. However in terms of how this may...
Thinking – Words and reflections Part One

Thinking – Words and reflections Part One

So –What’s it all about?  Why am I passionately painting and making these natural – looking forms from clay? Cocoons of clay and jesomite which could reference nature and the land in some way. They are ephemeral, fragile and soft. Soft in that they have no hard...