Julie Brixey-Williams is an artist working with gesture through calligraphic drawing and the body’s performative relationship with architecture and space. Working in various media, she has produced artist’s books, drawing performances for the V&A and the BBC and, undertaken residencies such as the 10 month Traces of the Invisible project with the Association of
Julie Brixey-Williams is an artist working with gesture through calligraphic drawing and the body’s performative relationship with architecture and space. Working in various media, she has produced artist’s books, drawing performances for the V&A and the BBC and, undertaken residencies such as the 10 month Traces of the Invisible project with the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. She is currently working with Libby Worth on a collaborative series, the first of which is Step Feather Stitch: an unfaithful reading of dance and embroidery patterns. Her personal thread of research continues around calligraphic gesture, threshold and line. She has a particular interest in collaborative working through scores and is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the collaborative group 'point and place'. "The physical, synergic relationship between the body:space is central to my work, and is expressed through sculpture, installation, collage, photography, drawing, book-form and process-led action. It constantly raises questions and allows me to sit on the edges of other disciplines, such as dance and architecture. How does the movement of my body affect the space? How am I acted upon by my surroundings? How might even a subtle shift or glimpse alter the space we perceive?
Julie Brixey-Williams ARBS
www.juliebrixey-williams.co.uk
www.rbs.org.uk/artists/julie-brixey-williams
www.pointandplace.net
Public realm MRBS, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London SW7 3RA
Education
2002 Insynch P/T dance and choreography course, Hounslow College
2000–2001 MA Art and Space, Kingston University (Distinction)
1997-2000 BA Fine Art (1st Class Hons), Kingston University
1995-1997 Diploma Fine Art Foundation Middlesex University (City Lit)
1990-1991 Portfolio Course in Fashion and Textiles, City Lit
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Drawings we have lived, Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, London
2006 U-Hang, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
2005 Traces of the Invisible The Association of Anaesthetists of GB+I London
2004 Your tummy’s like a handbag and I’m looking for your keys, Cardiff
2003 My World Picture, performance at Tate Modern (workshop with DV8)
2002 Arabesque, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2002 Dance Film Forum, Hoxton Hall, London
2001 locationotation, Laban Centre, London and at StArt Gallery, London
2001 I may arrive hereafter, street performance, Kingston upon Thames
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 It's Okay to Come In (pop up), Bond St W5 6th -26th July
2014 The Affordable Art Exhibition W3 Gallery, London W3 9DJ 4th Dec-4th Jan
2014 The London Collection pop up exhibition Westfield, White City 4-10th Aug
2014 Possible Futures: perishables and impermanence, The Practice Gallery,
Royal Holloway, University of London 5th-26th May
2014 w0budong: texts without meaning 12th – 16th March, Three Piccadilly
Place, Manchester M1 3BN http://w0budong.wordpress.com
2013 Drawing The Line, Millennium Gallery, Cornwall 30th Nov -7th Dec
2013 Artists Drawing a Line Under Torture Freedom from Torture 13th Nov
2013 Open Spaces Mottisfont Abbey NT 28th-17th Nov
2013 Bookmarks XI: infiltrating the library system 23rd Sept-23rd- Feb 2014
2013 Lines 2013 The Strand Gallery WC2N 6BP 12th-15th June
2012 What is line and how does it travel through space? Frost Museum, USA
2012 Step Feather Stitch performance at OPEN Ended, London W5 2nd Mar
2011 Insert Title Here July at Open, Ealing Arts Centre W5 July
2011 cabin:codex The Centre for Artists’ books relaunch 29th Apr-27th May
Dundee Contemporary Arts
2011 Prospero’s Library, Studio 75 London E2 28th April -1st May
2011 Hard Times A2 dominium building, Ealing W5 9th-23rd April
2011 Drawing for Girls Axis online exhibition curation by Anna Lovat
2011 Polyply6 with Libby Worth, Centre of Creative Collaboration, London
2010 There is Beauty in the City, Stoke-on-Trent, Gijon, Astirias, Spain, Leiden.
2010 Line Journeys Collyer Bristow Gallery WC1R 4DF 10th Feb -19th May
2010 I draw for you Drawn Together, Wimbledon external contributor 21st Jan
2009 Artists who do books Kaleid Editions Redchurch St, E2 1st- Sept
2009 Place Identity Memory Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries & Stranraer
2009 Tai Shani's - Tetragrammaton's Home in the Abyss: Reduced to 6
V+A 30th Jan. Video may be seen on http://www.taishani.com/index.html
2008 Tai Shani's - Tetragrammaton's Home in the Abyss: Reduced to 6
Royal Academy GSK Contemporary Season 21 Dec –performer Kitty 1
2008 my site | in space 4 – Question your tea spoons -performance at Resistance
Gallery 22nd /23rd Nov
2008 Glasgow International Artists’ Book Fair 25th /26th March
2007 London Artists’ Book Fair –launch of point and place -limited ed x100
2006 Mark, Dartington College Gallery, Devon
2004 Fashion Doll, Heriot Watt University, Galashiels
2004 The Figure and the Face, Orleans House Gallery
2003 indivisible cities, Toyshop Collective, New York and backjumps, Berlin
2003 Disco, Michael West Gallery Newport
2003 Drawing the process, National touring exhibition
2002 For Site, Site-based investigation of dance in Shoreditch regeneration,
2002 ARTfutures Contemporary Art Society, City of London School
2001 Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, Islington
1999 24 hours, The Loading Bay, Brick Lane, London
1995 Earthworks, Ecology Gallery, London
Residencies
2010 Barbican Library looking at the gestures people use in the library 3 days
2003-2005 Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland 10 months
June 2002 Springhallow Autistic School -Creation of an enchanted cloak 7 days
Commissions
Arabesque - Three dance-drawing performances at the Victoria and Albert Museum Oct 2002, commissioned by The Campaign for Drawing
TV/Radio
Xchange CBBC 1st Oct 2002 – performance + discussion of Arabesque
Smart BBC 1 12th December 2002 -filmed documentation of Arabesque
Go For It Radio 4 13th Oct 2002 – interview about Arabesque
Funding/Awards
Sculpture Shock Prize 2012 - Highly Commended Royal British Society of Sculptors
Stanley Picker Trust for Step Feather Stitch performances 2011
Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust award for point and place at London Artists’ Book Fair 2004
Stanley Picker Trust towards binding of point and place, artist’s book 2007
Leverhulme Trust to support residency at Association of Anaesthetists of GB + I 2003
Collections and Archives
point and place collaborative book project. Copies at Tate Gallery Artists’ Book Archive, National Art Library V+A, Birmingham Museum of Art Library, British Library, Kingston University, Yale Center of British art, National College of Art and Design in Ireland
Your tummy’s like a handbag and they’re looking for your keys: 8 prints at both
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain + Ireland, 21, Portland Place W1 and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Delivery Suite
locationotation –artist’s book project ISBN 1-904118-00-3 limited edition x 25
Copies held at British Library, Laban Centre, Kingston University + Alec Finlay collection
Arabesque -Interface –the arts research wing of the University of Ulster, Belfast
Arabesque -ResourceCite –part of EmergeD [Leeds]
Articles/Catalogues/Reviews
Equals: exploring feminism through art and conversation Nathalie Boobis & Anne Louise Kershaw (eds.) ISBN978-1-905600-39-7
Every Breath You Take by Wuon-Gean Ho in Printmaking Today Vol 21 No.4 2012 p24-5 ISSN 09609252
Step Feather Stitch: an unfaithful reading artist with Libby Worth in Choreographic Practices Vol 3 2012 pub Intellect ISSN 2040-5669 pp43-64.
The Role of Time in Exploratory Drawing: Tapa, Pyrography and the Expanded Field - paper by Kendal Hayes p37 + p51 and figs. 23 + 28
Book Arts newsletter no.50 June/July 2009 ISSN 1754-9078 p 6 -7
Place Identity Memory catalogue - international exhibition of artists’ books 2009
Dance Theatre Journal: vol 22 no. 4 p 19 -24 “point and place: six years in conversation…” ISSN 0264-9160
Drawing Now: between the lines of contemporary art by Tracey, Pub. I.B Tauris 2007 p.7-11 ISBN 978 1 84511 533 3
Drawing the Process CD –catalogue and examination of the crossover between disciplines through drawing. p29 ISSN 1744-2830
Anaesthesia News no. 200 March 2004 p 4-5 and no.209 Dec. 2004 p26
Arabesque photograph published -Juice magazine Issues 58 April + 59 May 2003
BAMS Contemporary Art Medals 1998 ISBN 0 9514271 7 2
Publications
Perception Frames: choreographic scores for practice and performance by Rosanna Irvine p95 ISBN 978 1 85924 3343
Before Performance catalogue Bryony White & Jacoba Bruneel (eds.) p23
Artists Drawing a line under torture catalogue Katja Janus (ed.) p63
Equals: exploring feminism through art and conversation Nathalie Boobis & Anne Louise Kershaw (eds.) ISBN978-1-905600-39-7
Every Breath You Take by Wuon-Gean Ho in Printmaking Today Vol 21 No.4 2012 p24-5 ISSN 09609252
Step Feather Stitch: an unfaithful reading artist with Libby Worth in Choreographic Practices Vol 3 2012 pub Intellect ISSN 2040-5669 pp43-64.
Magic Power Presence - double page text/ and image, pub. Iris 2012
Articles, Talks and Papers
Structuring the ‘What If?’ of Walking: starting points for capturing intuitive responses to materials as part of Walking in the city: mapping borders (part of the in the City Series) The Parlour Showroom, Bristol 13th Sept 2013
Exposing the collaborative processes of point and place paper at On Collaboration II University of Middlesex 18th May 2013
Step Feather Stitch: an unfaithful reading by Julie Brixey-Williams and Libby Worth. Choreographic Practices Vol. 3 2012 pub Intellect ISSN 2040-5669 pp43-64.
Scores Polyply 6 Centre for Creative Collaboration 25th Jan 2011 Step Feather Stitch work-in-progress with Libby Worth
Invited contributor to Side by Side collaborative project discussion at Siobhan Davies studios 20th July 2012
Anaesthetic: A Temporary Block of Sense Symposium at Central St. Martin’s 2010 -presentation about 10-month artist’s residency at The Association of Anaesthetists of GB & I
Anaesthesia News 3 x articles 2004 - 2006
How to set up a self-initiated residency Space Studios Shooting Ducks series 17th Aug 2005
School workshops
OPEN Ealing 3 workshops exploring Music and Mark making 2015
Industry Day Dormers Wells School 7th July 2005
Making Art out of Thin Air- Brentside High School 4th July 2005: exploring space and the 5 senses
Creative Arts workshops x 4 Elthorne Park School June 2003Creative communication workshop for Cloud Communications Oct 2002
