Juliet’s current artistic focus is on exploring the the historicity of societal power dynamics as they relate to the body.
Through a feminist lens she uses her art practice and research to explore the interwoven contexts and forces at play in the production of knowledge throughout history and to present times. Her focus is on how this impacts bodies and why this matters. She uses a process based approach, experimenting with the materials and methods of: textile traditions; medical applications; building construction and others. Her aim is to create artworks and site specific installations that bring found and created objects into conversation with with each other and with the built structure.
Juliet was born in Scotland where she completed her undergraduate studies in fine art She has continued to create, study and exhibit her artwork in Melbourne since 2004. Her recent postgraduate studies in contemporary art have allowed her to expand her material experiments to include installation and wall drawing whilst also honing the focus of her practice to exploring themes relating to the female body in relation to structures of social control.
Juliet has an MA (Hons) Fine Art(sculpture) and 18 years of visual art practice in sculpture and fibre arts including presentation of her artworks in multiple solo shows and group exhibitions.
Education
2023-2024 Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts, Melbourne University
2000-2002 Masters of Occupational Therapy, University of Sydney
1988-1993 MA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture), University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Awards
Winner of the 2014 ACMD Acquisitive Art Prize for Fragile Strength
Finalist for the 2014 Flanagan Art Exhibition and Prize
Prize Winner at the 2011 Kingston Arts Centre Art Blitz
Highly commended for sculpture at the 2007 ASV Annual Exhibition at Monsalvat
Prize Winner for sculpture at the 2007 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show
Solo exhibitions
2023 Ms Stripey Socks and All of Her Friends, QVWC, Melbourne
2021 Stitched, Incube.8r Gallery, Prahran
2017 Threads of Melbourne,Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford
2017 Common Threads with Jo Roszkowski, Kingston Arts Centre
2015 Veritas, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2012 Fabric of Life, Kingston Arts Centre
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Threads of Dreams and Realities, NAARM Textile Collective Group Exhibition, Assembly Point Southbank
2023 Uncommon Threads, NAARM Textile Collective Group Exhibition, Fortyfive Downstairs Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2023 Women in Stitches, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
2022 Body Beautiful, Group Show, Gallery104, Middle Park, Melbourne
2021/2022 Stitching Change, NAARM Textile Collective Group Exhibition, Fortyfive Downstairs Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2021 Thread Group Show, Incube.8r gallery Fitzroy,
2019 Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne, Summer Salon
2018 Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte, Group exhibition
2017 Their Unique Magic , The Age Media Gallery group exhibition
2017 Meanderings in a Visual Language No Vacancy Gallery, Group show
2016 Imago Mundi, Looking Down Under: Contemporary Artists from Australia, Collection, international art exhibition & publication
2015 Paperwork group show, Brunswick Street Gallery with Craft Cubed
2015 She exhibition, Finalist, Walker Street Gallery,
2014 The ACMD Acquisitive Art Prize, 1st prize winner “Fragile Strength II”
2014 The Flanagan Art Exhibition, Finalist, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
2013 The Art and Interiors Show, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
2013 A Body of Work group exhibition, Opendrawer Gallery, Camberwell
2012 Fabric of Life, Featured Artist, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
Residencies and Teaching
2023 & 2024 Fibre Arts Australia Designed and facilitated a 5 day residential workshop for a Fibre Arts Symposium in Ballarat
2018 Ruyton Girls School, kew; Armistice Day Centenary Artwork, workshop series and collaborative installation
2013 Fairfield Primary School, ‘my community’ workshop series and sculpture and collaborative installation
Juliet regularly hosts art workshops for adults teaching a range of skills including thread drawing (freehand machine embroidery)