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Julie Derbyshire

London
Julie Derbyshire is a photographic artist. She holds a BA Photography (Ist Class) from the University of Westminster and an MA Photography (Distinction) from the London College of Communication (UAL).
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Julie Derbyshire is a photographic artist with a practice that is research based and process led. Informed by art history and by her own lived experience, She explores themes of fragility, transience and the universality of our shared human condition. 

Derbyshire combines the allure of beauty with an undercurrent of disquiet, this opposition providing a vehicle to interrogate the contradictory nature of our world. Often minimal in appearance and presenting a study in positive and negative space, her constructed images involve photography in a process of revelation, concealment and absence. 

Derbyshire employs the medium of photography as the final distillation of a creative process that encompasses acts of fabrication, manipulation and disruption. These feed her interest in the relationship between two and three dimensions, explored both through crafting objects that she then re-presents on the flat photographic plane, and through physical and digital manipulations throughout the creative process.

She approaches photography as an instrument of illusion, to beguile rather than recite. By exploring the potential of the photographic object to conjure new meaning, Derbyshire invites the viewer to reflect and to question what lies beyond the image. 

 

 

 

 

Untitled (2020, from the series Liminal)

Untitled (2020, from the series Flora Dislocata)

Untitled (2020, from the series Flora Dislocata)

Untitled 4, Envelop(e)s (from the series Possession)

Chandelier of False Promises (2019, from the series Possession)

Relief 6 (2017, from the series Pietra Paesina)

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