Julie Caves is a Margate-based artist who has embraced the genre of still life in all its guises and painterly possibilities. She finds objects and our love of them and the spaces that we live in with them, endlessly fascinating. She sometimes approaches her subject directly and paints ‘roomscapes’ and objects from observation, but often she focuses just on the colour and light separated from the subject, letting the painting develop intuitively, and those works are usually read as abstract paintings. She has recently started applying a similar abstract approach to ceramic sculpture to see how the 3-dimensional form interrupts the colour relationships and interacts with the light.
Julie Caves has an MA from Camberwell College of Art, studied sculpture on an Erasmus term in Spain, completed the 2-year Turps Studio Painting Programme in 2019 (alternative MA) and has a certificate in Independent Curating from Central St Martins. She was shortlisted for The Delphian Prize and the Exceptional Award. She has had solo shows at The Stone Space gallery in London, The Lido Stores in Margate, and next year at Liminal Gallery, and has exhibited in many group exhibitions throughout the UK.
