Collection of JULIE CAVES in a gallery layout

JULIE CAVES

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.

ARTWORKS

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EXHIBITIONS

CV

Education and Qualifications:
2017-2019 Alternative MA, Turps Studio Painting Programme, London
2012 Independent Curating course (certificate) at Central St Martins
2004 MA, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Art
2001 BFA (Hons) in Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin 2001 Studio Art, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

One & Two Person Exhibitions:
2026 An oblong of pink, The Margate School. Part of PAM
2026 Love is the Answer, Futurelove, part of Off Season Margate
2025 Sea Change, Joseph Wales, Margate (two-person)
2025 Tasting, Mori Mori, Off Season Margate
2024 Scrumptious, Convivium Gallery, London
2024 Yummy Yummy Yummy, Cliffs, Margate
2022 Shimmy, Lido Stores, Margate
2021 Lost in the Woods, Stone Space Gallery, London
2017 Of All the Possibilities: Julie Caves and Daniela Rizzi, Pictorem Gallery, London (two-person)
2016 After the Sea, Bernie's, Margate (two-person)
2016 Painting Without Beginning or End, Heathcote Arms, London
2015 Colourful Language at Hoe Street Central, Walthamstow, London
2013 Curiosity: an art practice as a way of looking, The Crypt Gallery, London
2012 They Do Things Differently Here, Artworks Project Space, London
2012 Cloud 8, Arts and Crusts, Chapel End, London
2007 Colour Matters, Oxford House, London

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 We Are Our Memory, The Horsebridge, Whitstable
2026 Small Wonders, Margate Caves
2026 Small Prophets, Artworks Project Space, Walthamstow, London
2026 Illuminated, AOAP Projects, The Royal Society of Arts
2026 Contrariwise, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2026 Micromania, Kalkman Gallery, Maalstrict, Netherlands
2025 Group Winter Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal
2025 Lido Winter Exhibition, Lido Stores, Margate
2025 Vice Versa, The Errant Collaborators, Plymouth
2025 Seasons, Small Works Gallery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Gallery, Cambridge
2025 Miniature Masters, Canalboat Contemporary, London
2025 Lido Open, Lido Stores Gallery, Margate
2025 4x4, Bon Volks, Margate 2025 The Incidentals, Bell House Dulwich, London
2025 Vice Versa, Terrace Gallery London
2025 Art on a Postcard IWD, Bomb Factory, London
2024 Winter Show, Lido Stores, Margate
2024 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Gallery, Deal
2024 Beep Longlist exhibition, Swansea
2024 Hypha x Dispensary Open, Wrexham
2024 Creative Bloc, Fill the Gap, London
2024 GOLD!, Artworks Project Space, London
2024 It Rose and It Fell, Terrace Gallery, London
2024 Fight Flight or Freeze, Pictorem Gallery, London
2024 A Room of One’s Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford
2024 Multitasking, Lido Stores, Margate
2024 This Year's Model, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2024 Cat Flap Blink, Terrace Gallery, London
2023 Sugar Cube, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 Goddesses on Sea, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 Windows and Thresholds: Breaking Glass, Bell House, Dulwich, London
2023 Tart Factory, Tart Gallery London
2023 Goddesses, Terrace Gallery, Leyton, London
2023 Mermaids Always Have Graceful Arms, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 There Are No Things Only Relationships, Terrace Gallery at Karya, Highams Park, London
2023 This Year’s Model part 1, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
2022 Seeing, Feeling, Forgetting, APT Gallery, London
2022 Still Looking, The Lido Stores, Margate
2022 Colour, The Stone Space, London
2022 Starting the Line, travelling drawing project
2022 This Year’s Model part 3, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
2022 Seedbomb, Terrace Gallery, London
2022 Sonic Spring, Filly Brook, London
2022 Old Parcels Office Open, Scarborough
2021-22 A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary
2021 Lido Open, The Lido Stores, Margate
2021 Mirror Mirror on the Wall, The House of Smalls, Swindon
2021 A Break in the Clouds, Winns Gallery, London (3 person)
2021 Studio Confetti, Terrace Gallery, London
2021 A Space to Hold the Gaze, Liliya Gallery, Putney, London
2020 Waving in the Distance, Terrace Gallery, London
2019 Exceptional Award exhibition, Collyer Bristow, London
2019 A Hand Stuffed Mattress, Terrace Gallery, London
2019 Time Flies Like the Wind, Fruit Flies Like Bananas, Art Academy, London
2019 Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, London
2019 40 Years, Pictorem Gallery, London
2019 Traces, Artworks Project Space, London
2019 Prufrock, Centre Gallery, Margate
2019 Delphian Open Call
2019 Winners Exhibition, Printspace, London
2018 Artist of the Day (Turps Painters), Flowers Gallery, London
2018 Frankenstein, Espacio Gallery, London
2017 Afternoon Tea: Works on Paper, Chiara Williams, Margate
2016 Palimpsest, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
2016 Made in Margate, Viking Gallery, Margate
2016 Looking Up, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
2016 Seeing is Believing, St John's Church, London
2016 Leytonstone Arts Trail Gateposts Project (two site-specific installations)

Curation:
2024 Multitasking, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 Mermaids Always Have Graceful Arms, Lido Stores, Margate
2022 Still Looking, The Lido Stores, Margate
2021 A Break in the Clouds, Winns Gallery, London
2020 Waving in the Distance, Terrace Gallery, London
2014 Between Ingurgitate and Inhale, Pictorem Gallery, London
2012 TURNAROUND: 11 exhibitions in 12 weeks, London
2011 The Long Conversation: Poetry and Painting, London

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