An online exhibition, curated by Julie Brazil, and hosted by Limerick Museum
Artist Biography
Julie Brazil is an artist from New Ross, County Wexford who is currently based in Limerick city. She graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art Painting, and continued her academic studies in the University of Limerick, receiving her Doctorate in 2012. Brazil was a member of Contact Studios for over ten years and is now part of James Street Artists’ Studios. Her work has been exhibited in group shows nationally.
Exhibitions include Fragments (2019), Matisse’s Garden (2017), Small Artworks II (2016), Make (2015), Hive Emerging (2015) in Waterford and a solo show Landslide (2015) in Leixlip Library, Kildare. Brazil lectures in art education at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. She conducted Art Educator in Residence Courses in the National Gallery of Ireland in 2015 and 2018.
Artist statement
This exhibition is a continuation of a series based on my past experiences of landscape. There is reference to landscape but it is the emotional connection to landscape that is the point of inquiry. These paintings are imagined spaces based on memory. They are an intuitive response, giving an arena to explore and experiment. I work by building up delicate layers, using different techniques and weights of brushstroke, meeting with the painting as it changes. Landscapes become receptacles of us, they allow us the freedom to build our own internal landscape. An architectural response is beginning to emerge in some of the works; the spaces become rooms with discreet vistas emerging, solid spaces within the four lines of a rectangle.
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