Julie Cassels Cheshire, United Kingdom
After an initial career as a Systems Analyst, I took a career break, to raise a family, I studied Visual Arts (Salford University), 2004, then an M.A. in Textiles/Fashion (Manchester Metropolitan University) 2005. I have a studio at Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC, Manchester. My work has been exhibited widely. I received an ACE DYCP grant in 2021 for my project, ‘We View Things Differently Now'.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is initiated by historical research and highlights in the aesthetics of textiles and clothing throughout art history. The photographic image is fundamental to the different facets of my practice, using it to explore the relationship between a still image, the photographic sequence and the moving image. The tension I find between the photograph and its eventual form has led me to return photographs back to three-dimensions, with work that is an amalgamation of sculpture, photography and textile. As a perpetual analyst I reflect on the individuality of seeing and visual perception, illuminating them with work that encompasses video installation, photographic collage, digital reconstructions and low relief canvasses.
Artwork
The Way I See It Barbara Hepworths Studio , Mixed Media Low relief canvas, 2022
We View Things Differently Now After Genthe1 Tintype, Wet plate Collodion on Aluminium., 2021
CURTAINS, PALAZZO MOCENIGO, VENICE, Photographic image, digitally printed onto fabric, 2016
‘Patient Sitter - Cullercoats’ , Digital video, 2015
THE WAY I SEE IT #2 – AFTER ANDREW WYETH , Low relief, mixed media canvas, 2017
FULL CIRCLE SERIES –SPRING STEPS - OUT, Inkjet print, mixed media photograph collage, , 2011
THE WAY I SEE IT #1 - AFTER CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH , Low relief, mixed media canvas, 2017
Seeing Differently Series, Altered books, images and photographs, 2015 onwards