Julie Gill-Frisby

juliegill2@gmail.com

MA Visual Arts Practice – (MAVIS) Dun Laoghaire (IADT)

Frist Class Honors BA Fine Art – Carlow IT (Wexford Campus)


My Studio Practice

Both safety and home are human basic desires, thus there is a need for human beings to belong to a space or structure. Consider these ordinary, mundane common spaces acting as an expressive vehicle for the human body and mind. Our perceptions of houses and shelters shaping our thoughts, memories and dreams, which can also take on an enchanted significance in our lives. Intertwining these ideas, my investigations are centred on the ‘home’, questioning and focusing on how interior space and intimate associated memories, emotions and feelings are connected to it, which can culminate in various issues pertaining to influences in society today. A particular point being in this ever-changing world is temporality and displacement.



My latest body of work, ‘Between Here and There’ 2009, (a photographic project) the images were carefully orchestrated challenging our very notions of familiarity and undermining our sense of certainty, reflecting the ambiguous relationship between real and representational space, making associations with the Freudian idea of ‘Das Un Heimlich’ - of something made unsettling or strange.



The use of light and dark elements of my photographic work, giving them beauty and a painterly appearance, has been influenced by the Dutch painter Vermeer – the use of natural sunlight in the compositions, and choice of photography as medium relates to the speculation of Vermeer’s use of the camera obscura when painting his own intimate interiors.



I am a multi-disciplinary artist using photography, drawing, painting and video. Currently completing a project alongside musician and singer/songwriter in compiling drawn images, and projection to represent a particular story.