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.
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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
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
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 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
≘ [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
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
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
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
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
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 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
≘ [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
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
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
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
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
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
