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Ms Julia Crabtree

  • Departmental Director of Teaching and Learning
  • Curatorial Team, 91΅ΌΊ½ International

Areas of interest

Julia Crabtree has research interests in:

  • Sculpture
  • Installation
  • Materiality
  • Ecologies
  • Collaboration
  • Failure
  • Chance
  • Mistakes/Glitches
  • Vulnerability

Postgraduate supervision

Julia Crabtree welcomes research proposals on part practice research projects in the areas of:

  • Discourses in sculpture
  • Vulnerability and precarity
  • Ecologies
  • Process as practice
  • Entanglement
  • Embodiment

Teaching

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Background

Julia Crabtree works collaboratively with William Evans to produce expansive sculptural works developed through material research. Our work is process driven centring β€˜not knowing’ and errors, to consider the potential of accidents, chance and failure.

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Solo Exhibitions

2021 – Slip, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

2018 – Tracts, Fluent, Santander, Spain

2017 – Gullet, Cell Project Space, London

2014 – Antonio Bay, South London Gallery, London

2014 – Hyper Bole, Legion TV, London

2014 – Conversations #7, Millington/Marriott, London

2009 – Jetty, Double Feature, James Taylor Gallery, London

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 -21 – Towner International, Towner Gallery

2021 – Mine Searching Yours, Forma HQ, London

2019 – Rewind/Rewild, OmVed, London

2018 – Some people believe the Sun used to be yellow, Trafo Gallery, Budapest

2018 – Everything, Assembly Point, London

2018 – Becoming Plant, Tenderpixel, London

2018 – Legion TV, Wales

2017 – Maximum Overdrive, Focal Point Gallery, Southend

2016 – No Visible Horizon, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Canada

2016 – A Retreat In Time, Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Southend

2016 - Uncommon Chemistry, Observer Building, Hastings

2016 – FOAM (touring), Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

2015 – Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre

2015 – How I live my life, MilMa, London

2015 – Back to the Things Themselves, Assembly Point, London

2015 – Business as Usual, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds

2015 – The Fifth Artist, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2015 – FOAM, Grand Union, Birmingham

2013 – Slade MFA Degree Show, UCL, London

2013 – Habits, cleavages and fractures, Geological Collections, UCL Rock Museum, London

2013 – Big Dinner, Limbo, Margate

2012 – Slade Interim Show, UCL, London

2010 – Yes Way, Auto Italia South East, London

2010 – No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London

2008 – For My Part, James Taylor Gallery, Hackney, London

2008 – Epic, Auto Italia South East, London

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Research, Grants, Awards and Residencies

2022 – Villa Lena, Tuscany, Italy

2021 - 22 – Flat-Time House Research Residency with Alice Hattrick

2021– Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, Research and Development

2019 – Oaxacan Ceramic Research Residency supported by DYCP, Arts Council England

2018 –Tracts, Research Retreat, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2017-18 – Artists Resident at Somerset House Studios, London

2017-18 – Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, Glass and Botany Research

2016 – The Mary E. Hofstetter Legacy Scholarship for excellence in Visual Arts, Banff Centre

2014 – Wysing Arts Centre Future Residency

2014 – Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts – research project with Mechatronic Library

2013 – The Nina Steward Residency, South London Gallery

2012 – South Square Trust Grant

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Selected Talks and Events

2022 – The Unusual Suspects conference, The Public Statues and Sculpture Association (upcoming)

2021 – Mine Searching Yours Podcast with Forma, London and Flat Time House, London

2018 – U (Uranium), Cell Project Space, London (with Rachel Pimm and James Pimm for The Periodic Tables), Cell Project Space

2017 – Maximum Overdrive Performance, Focal Point Gallery, Southend

2016 – Unturned London, online project

2016 - Scats and Tracks: Artist Talk, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Canada

2016 – Artist Presentation, New Materiality, The Banff Centre Lecture Rooms

2015 – The Future Study Day, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2015 – O|An afternoon of talks and ideas around the spherical, the biological, the elemental, and the oxygenated, Hales Gallery, London

2015 – Closing Event for The Fifth Artist, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2014 – In Conversation with Paul Clinton, South London Gallery

2014 – Shoreditch House Talk series with Pilvi Takala chaired by Louise O’Kelly and Fatos Ustek

2014 – WYSIWYG? panel discussion, South London Gallery, London

2014 – 6pm Your Local Time (6PM YLT), Furtherfield, London

2014 – Collaborative performance for Basement TV, Modern Art Oxford

2014 – 6pm Your Local Time (6PM YLT), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge and Furtherfield, London

2014 – Marmalade Me, Screening at South London Gallery in collaboration with Anna Gritz

2014 – The Family Show presented by Kathy Noble, Reactor Halls, NottinghamΜύ

2011 – Recessional Aesthetics, Symposium devised and hosted with n.o.where

2011 – Visiting Artist, Central Saint Martins, UAL

2010 – Artist-led Space workshop with Camberwell College students at James Taylor Gallery, London

2010 – Printing workshop, No Soul for Sale with Auto-Italia, Tate Modern

2010 – Towards a Zoology of Spaces, Auto Italia South East, London

Publications

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