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04 NOVEMBER 2023 - 25 NOVEMBER 2023
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6. Julia Midgley
Farewell Fly Bye
An etching with Aquatint
40 by 36 cm
Edition size 50
9th of 50
This is a personal look back at 2019. The image is populated by figures and characters who I have sketched at some point during the year. There are references to the political movements and marches which dominated the news as well as the Liverpool hustings for election to the European Parliament. There are people in Christmas fancy dress, a tennis coach, a lawyer. I’m there in Hi Viz jacket and helmet ready to draw a construction site; an Opera singer with artificial pregnant bump stands beside her suitcase. There’s an African mask at the McManus, Dundee and a Wimbledon line judge. Finally no. 1 in the key shows “Desiree” a 19th Century German actor dressed as Jupiter disguised as a fly, a postcard image purchased from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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£200 - 400
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Notes
Julia’s practice is underpinned by observational drawing, in general, the work is concerned with life being stranger than fiction, together with references to art history and artefacts.
Content can include political events juxtaposed with random figures.
Until retirement, Julia was a Reader in Documentary Drawing at Liverpool School of Art & Design, LJMU.
Awards include Gainsborough’s House Prize (printmaking); the Printmaking Today Prize at the Royal Society Painter-Printmakers Annual exhibition; the Ayling Porteous prize for an etching, and the Teeside Print Open Prize (Commended)
Julia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Art’s Summer Exhibition.
Examples of her work are held in public and private collections including the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Musee Edgar Malik, France; Gainsborough’s House Museum; Grosvenor Museum, Chester; Tufts Collection, USA; Liverpool Cathedral; and Clifford Chance LLP.
Artist's website http://www.juliamidgley.co.uk
