Julie Ellis Artist

Paths into Research: Performance

Really useful session with Laura today. I am finding new ideas for ways to think about my work and how to write about it. Also this has highlighted ways that I could present my ideas to the viewer outside of my usual methods. It is giving me confidence to think about...

Paths into Research: Transdisciplinary Task

I am highlighting a particular element of art-making which involves subconscious thought and intuition and how this correlates to theories around improvisation and intuition in the making of music. Using theories of Musician and philosopher Cathleen Coessens (Vrije...
Studio Day

Studio Day

If we have retained an element of dream in our memories, if we have gone beyond merely assembling exact recollections, bit by bit the house that was lost in the mists of time will appear from out the shadow. We do nothing to reorganize it; with intimacy it recovers...
Studio – Still life 2

Studio – Still life 2

The landscape of objects 2 Continuing with the still life painting in oils, working on quite a small scale to experiment with ideas. I have been looking at artists such as Ian Rayer Smith for inspiration in a similar way to the Making at a Distance Task with Josie in...