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​Biography
Julie Brixey-Williams is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and writer who completed her PhD at the University of Reading (2022), exploring material relationality with place, using systems operating in R.D Laing’s Archway communities. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (since 2012), exhibits internationally and has been the recipient of several residencies including a Leverhulme-funded residency at the Association of Anaesthetists of GB & Ireland, Cill Rialiag (Ireland), Cove Park Winter Residency programme (Argyll) and The Observatory (Lymington). Brixey-Williams works extensively in collaboration as co-founder of collective point and place, and with performer, Libby Worth. Works held in collections include The Yale Center of British Art, Tate Gallery Artists’ Publication archive, The AAGBI, and the University of Kent. She lives and works in London.

Alongside her studio practice Julie works as a visiting lecturer, creativity coach, project assistant & workshop leader, and is particularly committed to expanding minds of all ages through creative experimentation with the arts.

CV
Julie Brixey-Williams PhD, MA, BA (Hons) MRSS 
(b. 1961 Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK)
Lives and works in London.
 
2021 - present  Member of the Women Who Walk Network
2012 - present  Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors
2001 - present  Co-founder of collective point and place
2007- present  Collaborative partnership with Libby Worth

Education

2018 - 2022   PhD in Fine Art (Practice-as-Research), University of Reading
2002               Insynch dance/choreography course, Hounslow College
2001               MA Art and Space, Kingston University, Kingston University Scholarship (Distinction) 
2000              BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art (Sculpture), Kingston University, (1st Class)
1997.                Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, Middlesex University/City Lit 
1991                 Portfolio Course in Fashion and Textiles, City Lit
 
Solo Exhibitions

2017                Reorientated: A Conversation of Different Geographies duo show with 
                        Michelle Loa Kum Cheung, A-Side B-Side Gallery, London
2010                Drawings we have lived, Barbican Centre, London
2006               U-Hang, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
2005               Traces of the Invisible, The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, London
2001                locationotation Laban Library, London
2001                locationotation StArt Gallery, Fulham London
 
Live Works, Performances and Screenings
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2023                Performer Tree 2 Fossils, film by Pil & Galia Kollectiv, screened Pastor Projects, Tecate, Mexico            
                         Amplify, Annex Gallery, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ
2021                 Essential Travel Royal Academy of Scotland, SSA123rd Annual 
2020                DWELL.IN.G video for Pell Ensemble, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council  
2019                 MicroActs x cavecinema, Pimlico, London
2018                 Soup Artists Film Night, Caraboo Projects, Bristol
2018                 MicroActs3, Hotel Elephant, London
2017                 Passing Between Folds, screening & presentation, University of Chichester
2016                 A Pocket Full of Seawater, performance on Lymington Marshes
2012                 Step Feather Stitch, performance with Libby Worth, OPEN Ended, London  
2011                  Polyply6 (Scores,) with Libby Worth, Centre of Creative Collaboration, London             
2009                performer Kitty 1 in Tai Shani's - Tetragrammaton's Home in the Abyss: Reduced to 6, V&A, London
2008                performer Kitty 1 in Tai Shani's - Tetragrammaton's Home in the Abyss: Reduced to 6, Royal Academy GSK 
                           Contemporary  
                         Question your teaspoons performance, my site | in space 4, Resistance Gallery, London 
2003                My World Picture, performance at Tate Modern (workshop with DV8)
2002                Arabesque, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2001                 I may arrive hereafter, street  performance, Kingston upon Thames 

Residencies

2025                Royal Society of Sculptors Awakenings Residency, Somerset
​2023-4            aa2a placement, Buckinghamshire New University (metal and textile workshops)
2022                Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Ireland 
2020                spudWORKS residency space PLACEing Objects project 
2018                 Hunters in the Snow Locator 28 residency with Simon Whitehead, Pentre Ifan, Wales
                         Cove Park (winter opportunity programme), Argyll, Scotland 
2016                 The Observatory, Lymington 
2010                 Barbican Library, London 
2003-2005    Leverhulme residency at The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, London 
2003                Craignish Residency, Ardfern Argyll
2002                Springhallow School for children with Autism and associated learning difficulties, London
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2025               March Hares, One Paved Court, Richmond
​2024-2025 ​   BLEND, Notts Book Arts Exhibition, touring Notts, UK
                        On The Edge 2.0 (Royal Society of Sculptors), OVADA, Oxford 
                        Spotlight, Bucks New University, High Wycombe             
2023               The London Group 85th Open, Copeland Gallery, London
​                        Home, Downstairs At The Department Store, Brixton, London
                        Custard Splits, SETealing Gallery, London
                        My Body In My Hands, John St Gallery, Stroud
                        On The Edge (Royal Society of Sculptors), Espacio Gallery, London
                        A Patch of Sky, One Paved Court, Richmond
2022               Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, Cromwell Place, London (curator Isabel de Vasconcellos)
                        Winter Exhibition, Kingsgate Workshops, London
2021                10gram Challenge, Royal Society of Sculptors, Dora House, London
                        The Playful Turn degreesoffreedom Espacio Gallery, London     
​2020               DWELL.IN.G project for Pell Ensemble 
                        From ArtCan with Love online auction
                        
Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, Dora House, London (curators Nicky & Robert Wilson)
                        
Transient, virtual gallery show hosted Kunstmatrix              
2019                Lines Etc., One Paved Court, Richmond
                        Past & Present Tense, St Pancras Crypt, London
                        Continuum, The Folded Space, Southend-on-Sea
                        What A Lovely Pair, Ealing, London 
                        Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London (curators Jane and Louise Wilson, Room 1)
                        British Academy Summer Showcase, London
                        From ArtCan with Love, Fitzrovia Gallery, London 
                        We Grow into the Forest, Mile End Pavilion, London E3   
​2018                International Day of the Child, London Resource Centre
                        Here's The Thing, Whitefriars Gallery, Harrow 
                        Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, Dora House, London (curator Jo Baring)
                        ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland
                        Vienna Calling, Galerie Art Pool, Vienna 
                        From ArtCan with Love, Fitzrovia Gallery, London W1
                        Matter, Whitefriars Gallery, Harrow
                        44 Artworks, Hallam Street, London 
2017                Housewarming, Whitefriars Gallery, Harrow
                        The Accidental Marks Made While Making Art, exhibition no. 89 cultivategallery.com
                        Prescriptions: Artists' Books, Templeton Gallery, University of Kent 
                        Play, Hin Bus Depot, Penang, Malaysia 
                        Love and Peace, National Art Centre, Tokyo 
​2016                Prescriptions, Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury 
2015                Artists Drawing a Line Under Torture, Bargehouse , London 
2014                The Affordable Art Exhibition W3 Gallery, London
                        The London Collection, Westfield, White City 
                        Possible Futures: perishables and impermanence, The Practice Gallery, Royal Holloway University of London
                        w0budong: texts without meaning, Three Piccadilly Place, Manchester 
2013                Before Performance, ]performance space[, London
                        Drawing The Line, Millennium Gallery, Cornwall 
                        Artists Drawing A Line Under Torture, E1London, London 
                        Open Spaces, Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
                        Bookmarks XI: infiltrating the library system, UK, USA, Canada, Turkey, Netherlands, Australia   
                        Lines 2013 The Strand Gallery, London WC2N 6BP
2012                What is line and how does it travel through space?, (online, curator Emmy Mathis for Frost Museum, Miami, USA) 
2011                Insert Title Here, OPENEaling, London 
                        cabin:codex, The Centre for Artists’ books, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
                        Prospero’s Library, Studio 75, London 
                        From Portrait to Self-Portrait, Hundred Years Gallery, London                         
                        Hard Times, OPENEaling, London 
                        Drawing for Girls, Axis online curated selection, Anna Lovat
2010                There is Beauty in the City, Air Space Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Gijon, Astirias, Spain; Aalmarkt 17, Leiden, Netherlands 
                        Line Journeys Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (curators Day + Gluckman)
                        I draw for you, Drawn Together, Wimbledon (external contributor) 
2009               Artists who do books, Kaleid Editions, Redchurch St, E2 
                        Place Identity Memory, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries + Stranraer 
2008               Glasgow International Artists’ Book Fair  
2007                London Artists’ Book Fair 
2006               Mark, Dartington College Gallery, Devon
2004               Fashion Doll, Heriot Watt University, Galashiels
                        The Figure and the Face, Orleans House Gallery
2003               indivisible cities, Toyshop Collective, New York and backjumps, Berlin
                        Disco, Michael West Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
                        Drawing - The Process, touring exhibition with Bruce McLean, Zandra  Rhodes, Will Alsop, James Faure Walker, Sue Coe
2002               For Site, Site-based investigation of dance in Shoreditch regeneration, 
                        Dance Film Forum, Hoxton Hall, London
​                        ARTfutures Contemporary Art Society, City of London School
2001               Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, Islington  

Curating

2023                A Patch of Sky, One Paved Court, Richmond, co-curator with Kate Proudman and Charmaine Stimpson
2020               PLACEing Objects, spudWORKS, Hampshire 
2017                Housewarming, Whitefriars Gallery, Harrow 
2004               Your tummy’s like a handbag and they’re looking for your keys, The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & I
1999                the body:the building, Kingston University
 
Artist publications 

2021.               PLACEing Objects limited-edition artists publication (in collaboration with Amina Gawhari and Hannah Marriette)
2017                point and place Hexagon game - Launch at Play, Hin Bus Depot, Penang, Malaysia 
2007               point and place - collaborative limited-edition artists’ book: ISBN 978-1-904118-09-1 
2004               Rosebud - story of The Sleeping Beauty read into an anaesthetic machine for AAGBI residency
2001                locationotation - artist’s limited-edition book: ISBN 1-904118-00-3   
 
Commissions/Awards

2017                RSProjects funding towards editing Passing Between Folds, with Libby Worth and Bucy McDonald 2017
2012                Sculpture Shock Prize 2012 - Highly Commended Royal British Society of Sculptors
2011                Stanley Picker Trust for Step Feather Stitch  
2004              Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust award for book point and place, London Artists’ Book Fair 
2007              Stanley Picker Trust towards binding of point and place 
2003              Leverhulme Trust supporting residency at The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland 2004-5
2002              Arabesque, three dance-drawing performances, V&A, London commissioned by The Campaign for Drawing

TV/Radio

Xchange CBBC 1st Oct 2002 - live performance + discussion of Arabesque 
Smart BBC 1 12th December 2002 - filmed documentation of Arabesque
Go For It, Radio 4 13th Oct 2002 - interview about Arabesque

Collections and Archives

Rosebud original artist’s book, University of Kent Special Collections and Archives 
point and place collaborative limited-edition book ISBN 978-1-904118-09-1 Copies at Tate Gallery Artists’ Book Archive, National Art Library V+A, Birmingham Museum of Art Library, British Library, Kingston University, Yale Center of British Art, National College of Art and Design in Ireland 
point and place Hexagon game: Tate Gallery Artist Publication Archive, Yale Center of British Art
The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland & Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London 
locationotation - limited-edition artist’s book project ISBN 1-904118-00-3 Copies held at British Library, Laban Centre, Kingston University & Alec Finlay collection
Arabesque, Interface - the arts research wing of the University of Ulster, Belfast 
Arabesque, ResourceCite - part of EmergeD [Leeds] 
 
Teaching
 
Filming for site-specific “scratch performances” Students Royal Holloway, University of London 
Sessional lecturer/termly examiner BA Fine Art FA1ART University of Reading 
Seminar leader BA Fine Art University of Reading FA1MM Modern Mythologies and FA21BD Bodies of Difference 2018-2019
Visiting lecturer Documenting Performance, MA Students Royal Holloway, University of London and BA students South Gloucestershire and Stroud College
Head of Art, Ealing College Upper School for 3 years (Jan 2009 - Dec 2011) - singled out by Ofsted for 'enthusiastic and thoughtful' teaching
Workshops for Asia House,
​Workshops for OPENEaling - platform for the arts, West Ealing 
Facilitator for the “Longest Drawing in the World” 1km  for The Big Draw, Campaign for Drawing 
Artist/Project manager for  'Arabesque' at the V&A for The Big Draw, Campaign for Drawing 
Outreach Supervisor for life drawing class for The Royal Academy of Arts 

Symposiums, Workshops & Presentations
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The Practice of Collaboration, Artist talk with tutorials BA Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford  2025
≘ [Paglesham]  -  [corresponds to] Paglesham, Taunton Brewhouse 2022                                           
A Labour of Attentiveness, Sentient Performativites Conference, Dartington Hall 2022
A Juicy Mixture, Environment and Experience Forum, University of Chichester Mar 2021
Towards a Vitreous Engagement, UnConference 2020, University of Reading PhD Symposium 2020
PLACEing Objects, Day of Dialogue and Dialectics, spudWORKS gallery, Sway, Hampshire 29th Feb 2020 – presenter & organiser
How Like a Leaf TECHNE – Estuaries - joint practical workshop and panel with collaborative partner Dr. Libby Worth Sept & Oct 2019
Dissolution or Division: Conscious Uncouplings and Collaborative Collapse, Royal Holloway, University London 22nd Nov 2017
Between Spaces Symposium (Passing Between Folds film screening), University Chichester 30th Jun 2017 
Twofold: the particularities of working in pairs Birkbeck, 3/4th March 2017
Making Connections: listening to the landscape - Talk and workshop A2 students, Brockenhurst College, 20th April 2016
Performing the experience in material form - Workshop leader for DT5211, MA in Contemporary Performance Practices, Royal Holloway Dept Drama and Theatre, March 2015 and Oct 2015; Oct 2016; Oct 2017
Documenting walking - workshop for BA Performing Arts students at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College May 2014
Structuring the ‘What If?’ of Walking: starting points for capturing intuitive responses to materials as part of Walking in the city: mapping borders (In the City series) The Parlour Showroom, Bristol 13th Sept 2013
Exposing the Collaborative processes of 'point and place’ – collaborative paper at On Collaboration II, Middlesex University 2013
Side by Side - invited contributor to discussion at Siobhan Davies studios  2012
Polyply6 (Scores) -performance and presentation of Step Feather Stitch with Libby Worth, at Centre of Creative Collaboration, London 2011
Anaesthetic: A Temporary Block of Sense - presentation, Symposium at Central St. Martin’s 2010
How to set up a self-initiated residency - Space Studios ‘Shooting Ducks’ series 2005


Publications/Articles/Catalogues/Reviews 
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Published articles can be viewed via: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9153-0397​ or reading.academia.edu/JulieBrixeyWilliams
A Labour of Attentiveness: the emergent place-responsive praxis of matter and context in R.D Laing’s Archway community. (PhD Thesis - will be available via Univ of Reading Centaur and British Library ETHOS depositories by end 2022). Contents and info on: https://www.academia.edu/85038301/A_Labour_of_Attentiveness_the_emergent_place_responsive_praxis_of_matter_and_context_in_R_D_Laing_s_Archway_community_Contents_and_Introduction_
my body in my hands, Lucas, S & Grellier, N. (2024) catalogue St John Street Gallery, Stroud
Active Agency 2020 eds. Sadhna Jain, Åbäke, Jacob Pardoe, Joshua Trees & Yván Martinez, Research at Camberwell UAL  Ontology p.125
Traces of the Invisible: how an alternative reading of The Sleeping Beauty fashioned a bookwork heightening awareness of the role of the anesthetist in Journal of Medical Humanities volume 41, pp.41–51(2020) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-019-09597-3
oneSelf anOther: artist's views on alterity pp34-35 editor Aldobranti Fosco-Fornio ISBN: 978-1-9995847-1-9
Prescriptions: artists' books on well-being and medicine edited by Stella Bolaki & Egidija Ciricaite 2017 ISBN 978 0 9926244 3 9
Perception Frames: choreographic scores for practice and performance by Rosanna Irvine p95 ISBN 978 1 85924 3343 pub 2014 under the auspices of AHRC Collaborative doctoral award with Dance 4 and Middlesex University. Cover illustration & drawing p95
Stitched Time, Zine by Clare Smith p21-26 Supported by Arts Council and Lottery funding
Artists Drawing a line under Torture, Freedom from Torture auction catalogues 2013 p63 and 2015 p72
Before Performance exhibition catalogue Bryony White & Jacoba Bruneel (eds.) p23
Equals: exploring feminism through art and conversation Nathalie Boobis & Anne Louise Kershaw (eds.) ISBN978-1-905600-39-7 p33
Every Breath You Take, article  Wuon-Gean Ho, Printmaking Today Vol 21 No.4 2012 p24-5
Step Feather Stitch: an unfaithful reading,  Choreographic Practices Vol 3 2012 pub Intellect ISSN 2040-5669 pp43-64.
Magic Power Presence - double page text and image, pub. by Iris 2012
From Portrait to Self-portrait  - http://issuu.com/antonionodar/docs/from_portrait_to_self-portrait
The Role of Time in Exploratory Drawing: Tapa, Pyrography and the Expanded Field, Kendal Hayes 
Book Arts newsletter no.50 June/July 2009 ISSN 1754-9078 p 6 -7
Place Identity Memory catalogue - international exhibition of artists’ books 2009
Dance Theatre Journal: vol 22 no. 4 p 19 -24  “point and place: six years in conversation…” ISSN 0264-9160
Drawing Now: between the lines of contemporary art by Tracey, Pub. I.B Tauris 2007 p.7-11 ISBN 978 1 84511 533 3 
Drawing the Process catalogue CD – curated by Leo Duff and Jo Davies p29 ISSN 1744-2830
Anaesthesia News no. 200 March 2004 p 4-5 and no.209 Dec. 2004 p26 
Arabesque photograph published - Juice magazine Issues 58 April + 59 May 2003 
BAMS Contemporary Art Medals 1998 ISBN 0 9514271 7 2

​Links where my work is featured
CentAUR repository - links to published articles and thesis: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/view/creators/90009830.html

ORCID for links to published academic articles https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-9153-0397
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCzxmg0XIs
Link to Step Feather Stitch: An Unfaithful Reading co-authored article with Libby Worth: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/chor.3.1.43_

I Wrap My Fear Around Me Like A Blanket - artist discussion Taunton Brewhouse 28.9.22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCzxmg0XIs

All The Frequencies short film:  Amplify, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-c3ia_mLOc

Sentient Performativities, Dartington 2022 https://performativities.info/media/Online-programme-core.pdf

Passing Between Folds at Scottish Royal Academy 2021: http://www.cutlog.co.uk/julie-brixey-williams---libby-worth.html

The Royal British Society of Sculptors  http://www.rbs.org.uk/artists/julie-brixey-williams

Filming work for Royal Holloway Dept Dance,Theatre and Drama 2021 Arboretum summer workshop of scratch/improvised performances:  https://royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/drama-theatre-and-dance/about-us/environmental-sustainability/the-arboretum/

DWELL.IN.G project Pell Ensemble: www.pellensemble.com/julie-brixley-williams​ 
& edited film of all artists:   https://vimeo.com/452156560​  & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfDC3ssaG5g

Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition 2020: sculptors.org.uk/whats-on/2020/exhibition/summer-exhibition​

Freeway Film site https://filmfreeway.com/JulieBrixey-Williams

How like a leaf Estuary Performance workshop for Royal Holloway Dept Dance,Theatre and Drama: https://www.howlikealeaf.com/gallery
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MicroActs film screening archive: https://www.microactslondon.com/archive

Passing Between Folds dance-for-camera with Libby Worth and Bucy Mc Donald: http://fold-dance.weebly.com

The Accidental Marks Made While Making Art online exhibition 
 cultivategallery.com/2017/11/06/cultivate-presents-the-accidental-marks-made-while-making-art-an-on-line-exhibition// and organthing.com

Before Performance at ]performance space[ https://loosegroupartists.co.uk/2013/12/05/beyond-performance/

Collaborative group point and place game  http://www.pointandplacegame.com

Rajni Shah Projects  http://www.rajnishah.com/one-final-act

SPUD Observatory Facebook page - day to day diary  https://www.facebook.com/SPUDObservatory/​

​Observatory http://www.lookinlookout.org/#!julie-brixey-williams/ccjl 

Prescriptions show, Canterbury "Rosebud" artist's book featured in: 
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/pdf/newspdfs/105_2.pdf 
https://issuu.com/prescriptions/docs/prescriptions_catalogue_sm
http://www.artnowpakistan.com/prescriptions/

https://thepolyphony.org/2018/11/12/artists-books-and-multisensory-experience-reflections-on-teaching-a-visual-medical-humanities/​

AxisWeb  http://www.axisweb.org/p/juliebrixeywilliams 

Colville Road Studios interview  http://colvilleroadstudios.moonfruit.com

Frost Art Museum   http://drawingproject.frostartmuseum.org/julie-brixey-williams/

There is beauty in the city   http://thereisbeautyinthecity.blogspot.co.uk

Drawing Research Network   http://www.flickr.com/photos/drawing_research/4332299007/

Antonio Nodar From Portrait to Self-Portrait   http://www.antonionodar.comissuu.com/prescriptions/docs/prescriptions_catalogue_sm

Tai Shani performance  https://www.taishani.com/tetragrammatons-home-in-the-abyss-reduced-to-6

UHang  http://art-gene.co.uk/nb/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205&Itemid=221

LinkedIn  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/julie-brixey-williams/0/30b/322issuu.com/prescriptions/docs/prescriptions_catalogue_sm

Chiswick Buzz webtv  http://www.chiswickbuzz.net/arts/news/84-art/167-artist-impressions-julie-brixie-williams

Prospero's Books Exhibition  http://blog.situ.org.uk/2011/04/

Off the Shelf: The Self and Subjectivity in the Artist's Book http://offdshelf.wordpress.com/participants/hijk/
 
Drawing Blog  http://anyutalearninglog.wordpress.com

Before Performance Bryony White  http://bryonywhite.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/beforeperformancepublication.pdf
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