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
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Awards
Aire Space studios and gallery, solo exhibition award at Coles Gallery, Leeds .
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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)
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Exhibitions:
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2023
Coles Galllery, Leeds Solo exhibition (Date to be confirmed)
Cass art, Liverpool, 5thOctober
WSA Annual exhibition 12th August Williamson Art Gallery
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Liverpool Art Fair June 30th -20th August 2023
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Beneath the Earth group exhibition Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 21st June- 8th Jully 2023
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Drawing Paper Show, (publication and exhibition )Bridewell Gallery ,Liverpool July 2023
Wirral Open Studio Tour, June 10th and 11th, Thurstaston visitor centre
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The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London 23rd May- 6th June
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Contemprary Landscapes Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 1st March-22nd March 2023
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All the Small Things, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield 1st March - 22nd March 2023
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2022
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The Fronteer Open 2022 7th -17th December 2022
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2022 Open Exhibition at The World of Glass in St. Helens 19th November 2022-6th January 2023
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'The Darkness and the Light' Water street gallery, Open Exhibition ,Todmordon West Yorkshire. 10th November - 29th January 2023
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Cass art Liverpool solo exhibition 18th -31st December 2022
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Technically Brilliant Autumn open exhibition Warrington October 2022
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Nadia Waterfield Fine art Autumn exhibition , Stockbridge, Hampshire October 2022
Fronteer independent art fair, Contemporary Art Space Chester. 26th -29th August
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'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
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'Spring' Group exhibition, Eden Tearooms and gallery, Newburgh Wigan, Lancashire
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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
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'Memories of Light ' Cass Art Liverpool solo exhibition 12th-31st December
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Wirral Open studio tour, West Kirby Art centre 11th- 12th September.
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'In Isolation' Gallery One The World of Glass gallery and museum in St. Helens 10th July until 3rd-September 2021
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'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
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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