Julia Pomeroy (b.1998) is an oil painter from London. She is currently studying an MFA at City and Guilds London School of Art and has been awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship to fund her course. She was based in Leeds for the last six years, and was previously a studio holder at Assembly House, Armley. Pomeroy completed her foundation year at City and Guilds Art School in 2017, and graduated from 
Leeds Arts University's BFA course in 2020 with a First-Class Honours.

"My practice experiments with transient spaces between figuration and abstraction through paint. Constructing dreamscapes, painterly while almost virtual experiences, a space is created to question the narratives and psychologies I depict. Borrowing found imagery from digital spaces, art history and my own photography, I hope to challenge ideas on what the is sublime in our contemporary world. I juxtaposed attractive and more classical feeling subjects and settings with an overstimulating colour palette and broken up, expressive mark making. Inspired by colour palettes from the Fauves, Pre-Raphelites and Old Masters, I use strong colours and tonal contrast in oils on top of atmospheric, and occasionally more flat or graphic, spray painted grounds. The codes I am developing in my painting harmonise and conflict, questioning the boundaries of what makes up our reality today. Underlying themes I explore include distractions, disconnections and futurism. 

My imagery often depicts figures in landscapes surrounded by or interacting with nature, or focusing just on nature from forests and rivers to animals and plants. I research mythologies and historical artworks that use nature for allegorical representations of states of mind and select those psychologies that I find are most prevalent today and consequential from living in a digital age. Some works I borrow found imagery from the digital spaces of social media to film to gaming, or my own digital photography, to nod to our saturated image and fast paced world, This juxtaposition of techniques and process with my painting to investigate imagery and meaning, while analysing these feelings, reinvents old with the new, finding an
in-between space and essence of humanity melding with virtuality."