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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In my painting practice, I explore the impact of living in the artificial age on human psychology. Through abstracting painting processes, I create a feeling of hyper-existence juxtaposed with scenes of figures in our everyday life and in nature. I combine these elements with my interpretation of the contemporary world- almost like a filter overlaying seemingly mundane scenarios and physical experiences.

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I create a sense of artificiality through a vibrant, heated and acidic colour palette that emulates romantic sunsets and warning signs simultaneously. Further, I analyse the relationship between painting and the digital; I deploy hidden tropes that evoke Photoshop tools like ‘layers’, or which suggest superimposed elements of realism or pixel-esque gradients.

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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 being primal and sci-fi.