JULIA POMEROY
Julia Pomeroy, London (b.1998) has just graduated from the MA Fine Art Course at City and Guilds London School of Art and she has been awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship for this. Julia is moving into Cell Studios, Dalston, this autumn.
Julia has exhibited with a range of galleries across the UK including Assembly House and East Street Arts in Leeds, Eve Liebe Gallery in London and online exhibitions such as with London based Auction Collective and NewBloodArt and American based galleries ArtInSquare and Dodomu Gallery. Julia has been featured in several arts magazines from SuboArt in 2024, Artit and Contemporary Art Collectors in 2023. Julia was longlisted for the Women in Art prize this year.
In my painting practice, I explore figuration and narratives taken from contemporary life and analyse them by playing with vibrant colour and gestural mark-making. I use simplifying and abstracting painting processes to depict underlying thoughts and energies within my scenes. This often creates a feeling of hyper-existence or artificiality I then juxtaposed over contemplative figures caught in our everyday life. I've recently been focusing on figures' experiences in landscapes and I am moving into depicting urban settings.
Further, I analyse the flexibility of painting through merging techniques and styles.
I contradict the surface of my paintings by working with flat spray paint grounds and layering expressive, impasto oil marks on top. I then slow my paintings down by depicting elements of realism and accuracy in the forms of symbolic objects, from plants to digital technology. These deploy as hidden tropes that evoke Photoshop tools like ‘layers’, or which suggest superimposed elements of realism or pixel-esque gradients, calling to our contemporary time.
Inspired by digital photos of personal experiences, found online imagery, pop culture and art history, my work aims to analyse what the contemporary sublime is and find something that can exist between the real and imaginary.