Julia Parry
I am a landscape painter. My paintings are an interpretation of images taken from magazine photographs of aerial landscape. My affiliation with such images is influenced by landscape viewed out of aeroplane windows. I am intrigued by the way landscape can look like a patchwork of shapes. I therefore specifically choose photographs which contain aesthetic pattern and a material quality. By using paint and elements of textiles such as: embroidery, sequins and beads, I exaggerate and manipulate these attributes emphasizing the beauty of landscape.
The scale and distance used in my painting varies from photographs taken by low flying aircraft to satellite photographs, altering the perspective. What may have been an almighty river like the Amazon can become a piece of string, or the head-lights of cars on a motorway, sequins. Materials such as these not only describe the image but create a conflict of space. They act as tactile, textural elements working on the surface, interrupting the pictorial space of the image.
Biography
1981 Born in Cambridge, England
2000-2001 Bedford College, Foundation Diploma
2001-2004 Wimbledon School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
2004-2005 Goldsmiths, Postgraduate Diploma in Textiles
Exhibitions
September 2004 Toni Heath Gallery, London
2004 Guildford Arts, Clyde & Co, Beaufort House, Chertsey Street, Guildford
2004 Platform for Art, South Wimbledon Tube Station