Pacific Breeze II

Juliette Losq RI, RWA (b. London, 1978) studied Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She was awarded the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2005, was shortlisted for the John Moores Prize in 2014, winning the Visitors Choice Award, and won the John Ruskin Prize in 2019. Her work, encompassing drawing, painting and installation, depicts ephemeral landscapes that spring up in the overlooked borderlands of cities and towns. These become sites of speculation on what might have gone before and what may be occurring out of sight. Alluding to the Picturesque and the Gothic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, she interweaves their motifs and devices with the marginal areas that she depicts, evoking an uncertain world hovering at the edges of a symbolic ‘Clearing’, where wilderness and chaos oppose civilization and order, and in which beauty and neglect are interchangeable.