Biography
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Julyan’s work is evidence of a compulsion to seek out material truth and uninhabited imaginative space. Born in 1962 Alex Julyan lives and works in London. Her works are assembled from a wide range of everyday and abandoned materials, as well as texts and fabricated elements. Dissecting familiar objects, spaces and situations with a quiet investigative wit, she subverts their individual and universal properties, making subtle shifts in the familiar qualities that define them. Her ongoing collaborative projects are characterized by exchanges across art forms and media, including large-scale events which explore the territory between music, theatre and installation. |
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education + training |
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| 1980-1984 | Chelsea School of Art Foundation Course . 1980-1981 BA Hons Fine Art . 1981-1984 |
| 2008 | Punchdrunk . directing + site sympathetic production |
| 2002 | Theatre de Complicite @ Tate Modern . interpretation |
| 2002 | Arts Council . video projection |
| 1999 | Chisenhale Gallery . Get Art . SEN skills |
| 1995 | Whitechapel Gallery . gallery education |
events + performance |
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| 2011 | get mOuthy! . Wellcome collection . London event curator: Whole building Spectacle Wellcome Trust commission |
| 2010 | Grey Goose . Punchdrunk Theatre NPA Promotional event design and installation of The Memory Distillery Quacks and Cures: new formula event curator: diagnosis and cures with new additions Wellcome Trust commission Lux in Tenebras . Barbican Centre . London choreographer . music: Stephen Montague BBC Symphony Orchestra commission + Laban Dance |
| 2009 | Quacks & Cures . Wellcome Collection. London . Whole Building Spectacle curator . Wellcome Trust commission |
| 2008 | Apparitions produced & composed by Stephen Montague Mull, Scotland . Dartington, Devon . co-producer . costumes + installations . Dartington International Summer School, PRS Foundation & Scottish Arts Council commission |
| 2005 | Beach Singularity by Trevor Wishart . Scarborough Beach . art director . Sonic Arts Network commission |
| 2004 | Musicircus, UnCaged Festival . Barbican Arts Centre . London . Installations . BBC Symphony Orchestra commission |
| 2000 | Bells of Remembrance with Stephen Montague Ickleton, Cambridge . Year of the Artist commission |
| 1998 | Corridors of Power with Cameron Sinclair Manchester Town Hall . site specific multi-media event . ISCM Festival commission Winner of the George Butterworth Award |
| 1997 | Musicircus: Inventing America Festival . Barbican Centre . London . installations . BBC Symphony Orchestra commission |
site specific work |
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| 2005 | Unfastened Silence . Spitalfields Market . London Spitalfields Development Trust commission |
| 2003 | Memory Spaces . Royal College of Art . London . BBC Proms commission |
| 2002 |
composition of impulses . the Wapping Project. London sound by Cameron Sinclair . site specific multi-media work . SPNM commission |
| 1999 | Safe and Sound with composer Cameron Sinclair . St. Margaret’s Chapel, Sunderland . site specific . Helix Arts commission |
| 1999 | Support System . Whiteleys . London A Created Space commission |
selected solo exhibitions |
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| 2003 | composition of impulses. Turner Contemporary . Margate Arts Council of England commission |
| 2002 | Made in England . Shire Hall Gallery . Stafford |
| 1998 | Ground Control . PriceWaterhouse . London |
| 1996 | The Museum of Nonsense.Holland Park . London |
selected group exhibitions + commissions |
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| 2009 | Summer Show . England & Co . London Flatpack Architecture. Fermynwoods Contemporary Art . Northamptonshire Held in the Hand . Leicester Artworks Collection |
| 2007 | Summer Show .Royal Academy. London open . Café Gallery Projects . London |
| 2005 | Here-Now . Kaze Gallery . Tokyo |
| 2003 | London Artfair . represented by England & Co |
| 2002 | new sculptures. England & Co . London Two Schools of Thought . Oxo Gallery . London London Artfair . represented by England & Co Artfutures Contemporary Art Society . Bankside . London |
| 2001 | London Artfair . represented by England & Co |
| 2000 | Value Judgements . Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool . Ruskin Gallery. Sheffield . Cleveland Crafts Centre London Artfair . represented by England & Co Artfutures Contemporary Art Society . Barbican . London |
| 1999 | Summer Show Royal Academy . London Hidden Art . London Artfutures Contemporary Art Society . Festival Hall, London Featured artist |
| 1998 | Whitechapel Open . London Art at 100 . Park Lane . London |
| 1997 | Open . Towner Gallery . Eastbourne |
selected Exhibitions 1985-95 |
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| Riverside Studios . Groucho Club . Royal Overseas League South London Gallery . London Contemporary Art Fair . Southern Arts Touring Exhibitions . Whitechapel Open . Cable & Wireless collection | |
publications |
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| 2009 | Lost in Translation . by Alex Julyan & Bill Gilonis a project exploring perception, language and chance |
design |
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| backdrop, costume & set design | Paul Smith (1984-1987) LIFT FESTIVAL Frankfurt Music Messe MTV BBC2 TV Picture This BBC1 TV Carluccio’s Southern Italian Feast . PriceWaterhouse corporate film Glyndebourne Youth Opera Barbican Arts Centre Dartington International Summer School |
illustration |
Telegraph Magazines Radio Times New Scientist Discovery Channel Royal Mail British Diabetic Association Holland Park Opera |
public art |
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| 2007 | Highbury Corner . London |
| 2006 | Old Dagenham Park . London |
| 2002 | Altab Ali Park . Whitechapel . London |
| 1984-1988 | Thomas Tallis School . London Greenwich Hospital . London Southampton General Hospital Isleworth Hospital |
presentations |
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| 2011 | ArtQuest . Real world series: professionalism in the arts |
| 2010 | ArtQuest . Self Assembly series: rates of pay |
| 2009 | Yo Opera! conference . Holland . drawing as performance |
| 2008 | RESEO conference . Austria . visual arts in opera education |
| 2004 | ENGAGE conference . London . artist-educator's perspective |
teaching |
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| 1987-99 | Winchester School of Art |
| 1994-95 | N E London University |
| 1989 | Uttar Pradesh India |
gallery + museum education |
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| 1997 ongoing | Autism London . Barbican Art Gallery . CGP. Chisenhale Gallery . Creative Partnerships . De La Warr Pavilion . ENGAGE . Look Ahead Housing and Care National Portrait Gallery . Serpentine Gallery . Science Museum . Southbank Centre . South London Gallery Turner Contemporary . Towner Gallery . Whitechapel Gallery |
core teams + development |
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| 2003-current ongoing | British Library Explore the Worlds Knowledge, Texts in Context, Listen Up! Special Exhibitions |
| 2004-2008 | Tate Modern Schools & Community Programme |
| 1998-2007 | V & A Family programme, RIBA pilot project |
cross-arts education |
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| Royal Opera House Orchestra of St. John’s BBC Proms BBC Symphony Orchestra Glyndebourne Opera BBM Sustainable Architects Will Alsop Architects |
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writing + evaluation |
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| 2010 - 2011 | Southwark Council. curating Silver Views Lucy Wilson + Alex Julyan |
| 2008 | Tate Modern. Community Programme: Finding Louise Michelle Fuirer + Alex Julyan CGP FutureBluePerfect. seniors learning Lucy Wilson + Alex Julyan |
| 2007 | The Natural House Clay Build Architecture in practice |