Ms Julia Crabtree
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Lecturer
- Departmental Director of Teaching and Learning
- Curatorial Team, Reading 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
Background
Julia Crabtree works collaboratively with William Evans to produce expansive sculptural works developed through material research. Our work is process driven centring ‘not knowing’ and errors, to consider the potential of accidents, chance and failure.
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
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
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
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, Nottingham
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