Poetics
Throughout her career Julie Anne has been profoundly inspired by the work of other artists, writers, musicians and poets. When aroused she either visually depicts the subject matter of the creative work of others, or she recreates in three dimensions the diorama written or painted, with her own themes weaving through the dialogue of the original work.
The sick Rose
by William Blake
O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
“Day after day, day after day,
we stuck nor breath nor motion.
As idle as a painted ship upon
a painted ocean.”
Coleridge
Condemned to be free
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O Rose Diptych
William Blake
Smaller gods
Terry Pratchet
Her Last Expectation in
the Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymous Bosch
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Artist’s secret thoughts
Essentially, Her Last Expectation in the Garden of Earthly Delights is a vignette about my mother interposed with a small part of the famous Bosch painting Garden of Earthly Delights (I wanted to see what Bosch would look like in three dimensions). My parents whom I love with all my heart were terrible drinkers and at some point, in my late 20's they had decided to give up and drink themselves to death.
One afternoon she (mother) banged on the floor of her bedroom, a call for me in the kitchen to come up and see what she (the queen) needed. Reluctantly, I made my way up to find a once handsome woman, sitting up in bed, the dirty lace of a four poster bed framing her profile as she proclaims without even looking in my direction 'Julie, I'm dying!' in a cracking old woman voice - The only thing that came to my mind was that forlorn wretched vindictive Dicken's character Miss Havisham, and it was too funny to me, and tragic all in one go. It was clear that she would kill herself with drink if she carried on, hence the title of my artwork.
The lace of the four poster bed in the sculpture is actually cut out of that very bed, and the figure surrounded by those hellish Bosch characters is an absolut vodka shot glass cut into a crown with gold leaf inlaid. I could go on... Thisis an older piece about an addiction which stained much of my life, even as a child.
Desiderata
Anonymous
Out of the Reach of Tears and Sorrow when my Love and I are Together
Oscar Wilde
Poetics – Kindergarten series fuse
Three Clever Monkeys is based loosely on poem The Poison Tree by English poet William Blake. This existentialist work from the Kindergarten series examines contradictions in the human condition.
“And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.”
William Blake
Three Clever Monkeys
William Blake
Dimensions and technique
O Rose
Highly polished sandcast lead glass with flameworked inclusions
160 mm x 220 mm x 120 mm
Mariner Triptych – Condemned to be Free
Highly polished sandcast lead glass with hot-sculpted and sandblasted inclusions
170 mm x 500mm x 120 mm
Out of the Reach of Tears and Sorrow when my Love and I are Together
Flameworked glass over montaged and painted backdrop [framed]
300 mm x 300 mm x 50 mm
Her Last Expectation in the Garden of Earthly Delights
Flameworked and engraved glass with gold leaf and mixed media, cold-bonded onto 15 mm plate glass base
400 mm x 300 mm x 250 mm
Ozymandias
Highly polished sandcast glass with flameworked inclusions
800 mm x 400 mm x 450 mm
Smaller gods
Highly polished sandcast lead glass with flameworked inclusions painted with high-fire enamels and fine silver leaf inlay
400 mm x 500 mm x 400 mm
Three Clever Monkeys_ Thought/Action/Reaction
Highly polished sandcast lead glass with flameworked inclusions with mixed media [installation]
800 mm x 400 mm x 450 mm