JULIE ANN SHERIDAN

A multidisciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in East Sussex, England. Since graduating from Bradford College in 1992 Julie has exhibited and participated in residencies nationally and internationally, most recently in Swansea, Wales. In 2022 she had a solo exhibition at Volcano and returned with a new body of work for her final MFA, Falmouth exhibition 2023.

Julie’s main focus is extended painting, how it challenges the historical flatness of traditional painting on canvas and how it responds to its specific environment, considers various surfaces as a whole and challenges spatial illusion within its specific, installation environment. Exploring the materiality of paint and painting, its connection to other disciplines, while holding onto the specificity of the canvas, pushing practice beyond the edge, to further understand the potentiality of painting and paint assubjects and paint as a language in itself. Process is ongoing and experimental, were through concept and production, materials ask questions, guide outcomes and provide a space where there are no rules. Guided by theories of hierarchical practice, the work engages with the politics of materiality and its connections to sustainability.

Julie’s current practice continues this investigation into spatial and temporal dimensions of form and colour as well as extending dialogue surrounding boundaries and borders, both physically and creatively.

Detail from Barely Noticed

I can only show you what I see at Museum of Goa, India, January 2024.