Julie Lawrence
Contemporary Landscape Painter
Background Qualifications
BA First class ( Hons ) Art with Theology and religious studies, University of Chester
PGCE( Primary) ,University of Chester
Post graduate certificate in Special Needs Education.
MA in fine Art (2009) University of Chester
Awards
Aire Space studios and gallery, solo exhibition award at Coles Gallery, Leeds 2023.
The Yoshimoto prize:The Pastel Society 2023 exhibition at the mall galleries, London
Visual Artists Association Finalist Emerging Artist Awards 2020 October 2020
National Open Art competition: North of England Artist of the Year and regional prizewinner
Waterside 1-0 solo micro-commission Manchester ( Solo exhibition and award)
Publications/Features:
'Another View' Lady Lever gallery on -line feature and story 2024
Drawing paper show 9th Edition 2023
Exhibitions:
2024
'Figures in Space' Dot Art Gallery Liverpool August 22nd 2024 - October 5th 2024
Liverpool Art Fair 27th June - August 2024
Ashes and Roses Dot art Liverpool May- 1st June 2024
'Home' Fronteer Gallery Sheffield 27th February
Pastel Society 2024 annual open exhibition , The Mall Galleries, London 24th Jan- 10th Feb 2024
Fronteer postcards exhibition 10th-20th January Fronteer gallery, Sheffield
"Sightseers" touring exhibition prosaic projects Sheffieild
The Liverpool collection Dot art Liverpool 24th November 2023- 3rd Feb 2004
Open art exhibition The World of Glass in St Helens November 2023-Jan 27th 2004
2023
Coles Galllery, Leeds Solo exhibition (16th November- 8th December 2023)
Cass art, Liverpool, 5thOctober
Platforms project, Athens
WSA Annual exhibition 12th August Williamson Art Gallery
Liverpool Art Fair June 30th -20th August 2023
Beneath the Earth group exhibition Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 21st June- 8th Jully
Drawing Paper Show, (publication and exhibition )Bridewell Gallery ,Liverpool July
Wirral Open Studio Tour, June 10th and 11th, Thurstaston visitor centre
The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London 23rd May- 6th June
Contemprary Landscapes Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 1st March-22nd March 2023
All the Small Things, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 1st March - 22nd March 2023
2022
The Fronteer Open 2022 7th -17th December 2022
2022 Open Exhibition at The World of Glass in St. Helens 19th November 2022-6th January 2023
'The Darkness and the Light' Water street gallery, Open Exhibition ,Todmordon West Yorkshire. 10th November - 29th January 2023
Cass art Liverpool solo exhibition 18th -31st December 2022
Technically Brilliant Autumn open exhibition Warrington October 2022
Nadia Waterfield Fine art Autumn exhibition , Stockbridge, Hampshire October 2022
Fronteer independent art fair, Contemporary Art Space Chester. 26th -29th August
'Technically Brilliant 'gallery Warrington 'Horizons' 2022, and 'Friends of....2022
Tarpey Open 2022 Exhibition. castle Donington July- 14th August 2022
The Spring Hampshire Art Show, Stockbridge, Hampshire 23rd April-14th May 2022
'Spring' Group exhibition, Eden Tearooms and gallery, Newburgh Wigan, Lancashire
Pastel Society Annual exhibition 16th February -26th February 2022 Mall Galleries, London
Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 'Colour' themed group exhibition 9th February -18th March 2022
2020 -2021
'Memories of Light ' Cass Art Liverpool solo exhibition 12th-31st December
Wirral Open studio tour, West Kirby Art centre 11th- 12th September.
'In Isolation' Gallery One The World of Glass gallery and museum in St. Helens 10th July until 3rd-September 2021
'Ground' Group exhibition part of the independents Biennial Cass art space, Liverpool 1st-31st May 2021
VAA International Online Art exhibition 2021 12th April-30th June 2021
Online Deepbridge Chester Arts Fair Curated collection (13 November-December 2020)
Ty Pawb Open exhibition Wrexham( An exhibition celebrating lockdown creativity ) Virtual tour 16th October 2020- April 2021
2019-2020
Staacks December exhibition
Liverpool Collection Dot-art gallery 21st November- January
'Hilbre Interpretations' Staacks Gallery, Group exhibition running throughout October 2019
'Transient Light' Solo exhibition of paintings and drawings: Staacks Gallery, August 2019
Wirral Society of Arts Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery, August 2019
Liverpool art fair June -september 2019
Grosvenor Museum Chester open exhibition May 2019- September 2019
2018 -2019
Staacks gallery Christmas exhibition ( December 2018)
Solo exhibition Cass art Liverpool ( October 2018)
'Light on Water' exhibition Dot -art gallery Liverpool August 11th 2018
Solo exhibition Staacks gallery West Kirby ( July 2018)
Our eARTh Climate Change exhibition KUNSTHUIS Gallery North Yorkshire March2018 -March 2019
2017-2018
John Moores University Collection ( a body of paintings now part of the JMU university permanent collection)
National Open Art Competition London November 2017( Regional prizewinner)
Open Art Exhibtion Grosvenor Museum Chester: 9th March-21st June 2017
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2017 Mall galleries, London. 21st February 2017
2015-2016
Liverpool Open at Editions Gallery May 12th-June 18th 2016
'Breath of Nature': Anniversary exhibition of Boundary Art, Cardiff. 27th March 2016- 1st May 2016
'Identity' Art with a Heart Altringham ( Jan 2016)
PARTIA: Winter 2015 solo exhibition,Aintree university hospital
Exhibitions 2014
Seeing Beckett' Contemporary art space, Chester ( alongside 'Staging Beckett at the Margins' conference Sept 12th) and then Liverpool John Moores University as part of the Liverpool Irish festival 23rd October- 3rd November 2014
Searching: Unexpected Treasures Bridewell studios and gallery Liverpool 12-21 September 2014
Open studios tour. June 2014
Liverpool Open at Editions Gallery May 2014
Solo Exhibition: February 2014 -May 31st 2014 'U hang exhibition,' ArtGene', Barrow in Furness, Cumbria
Exhibitions 2013 - 2009
Monochramatic exhibition in verge, Glasgow artists studios, Glasgow -
'Herstory' , The Link Gallery, Winchester -
'Archive 'Group, Theater Clywdd,
- Recollection, Chapel gallery, St. Helens Road, Ormskirk, Liverpool
- Lancashire Open exhibition Chapel gallery
- MA Graduate show, Kingsway, University of Chester, Chester 2009