Cultivate Evolved painting

I have just finished the 100x160cm acrylic on canvas painting for the Cultivate Evolved exhibition.

Here is a preview - a detail image:

detail of Sunlight and Shadow by Julie Caves

Cultivate Evolved exhibition

Cultivate Evolved

The First Thursday January 2nd late evening opening will kick off 2014 at the newly evolved space down in the middle of Vyner Street.  Explore the work of the nine full time artists in residence who are sharing the artist-run space that is now Cultivate Evolved and see the work of this exhibition’s special guest artist: Julie Caves. This will be the 29th First Thursday opening in a row (29 months!) on the corner, it will be their first as 'Cultivate Evolved'.

The walls are now permanently divided into ten spaces, nine of which are used by the nine artists of Cultivate Evolved, the tenth space features the latest in what we hope will be an ever revolving guest artist.  “We hope the rage of guest in the tenth space will reflect the diversity of the nine residence artists of Cultivate Evolved and we look forward to you coming to explore the space, meet the group of nine Evolved artists and our special guest.”

The nine artists are:
Chris Paul Godber
Emma Harvey
Gareth Morgan
Genevieve Hatton-Brown
Jessica Ballantine
Julia Maddison
Katrine Storebo
Sean Worrall
T.B.C

Special Guest:
Julie Caves

The exhibition continues through January 15th 2014.

Cultivate Evolved is open from 11.30 - 18.00, Thursday to Sunday

(and outside of these days by appointment at short notice).

Cultivate Facebook Page

Blackhorse Lane Studio artists billboard

A 'We Made That' project billboard showing artwork by artists from Blackhorse Lane Studios: Tam Joseph, Matthew Krishanu, Julie Caves, Jonathan O'Dea, Neil Irons, Michelle Reader, Katrin Mäurich. Up now on Forest Road in London E17.

Mine is the blue and pink painting in the front.

Quantum Exhibition at Espacio Gallery

Two of ten paintings I have in the Quantum exhibition that opens tomorrow at Espacio Gallery. 

Espacio Gallery was on the Whitechapel First Thursdays walking tour so the Quantum exhibition was very busy last night!

A Review of Curiosity on Gallery, auditorium, studio...

Steven Smith has written a review of my Curiosity exhibition on his great blog.

Gallery, auditorium, studio...

An Interview with Artist Julie Caves

Read Lisa Takahashi's interview with me about my practice and the Curiosity exhibition.
On Show and Full of Curiosity: An Interview with Artist Julie Caves 

Behind Closed Doors exhibition catalogue

Behind Closed Doors exhibition catalogue

Curiosity Exhibition Press

Curiosity exhibition Press

Review of Curiosity exhibition on Let's Make Lots Of Monet blog.

a-n Interface - What's On.

The Curiosity exhibition is listed in Axis members news!

Very pleased to have been chosen by Time Out Art for a listing of my Curiosity exhibition! Where it is also getting some good reviews from the public.

Just in time for Frieze Week in London!

A Review of Curiosity on Lets Make Lots Of Monet

Issey Scott has written a review of my Curiosity exhibition on her great blog.

Let's Make Lots Of Monet

Curiosity Exhibition photos

Some snapshots of the Curiosity exhibition.

Curiosity: an art practice as a way of looking

Curiosity: an art practice as a way of looking
Julie Caves’ first major solo exhibition has taken over two years to create, with work celebrating beauty and its many juxtapositions: work and play, nature and synthesis, life and death.

Housed in the peaceful and contemplative 19th-century Crypt Gallery in Kings Cross, this group of work includes eight series of paintings, sculptural installations, an ongoing drawing series, an interactive work, and installations created specifically for the Crypt space.  The exhibition is located a 5-minutes walk from the Frieze Art Fair and is also part of the Bloomsbury Festival 15–20 October. There will be a participatory artwork called A Third Colour on the three Saturdays of the exhibition, whose participants will be documented for a book and receive a certificate that ‘they are art’ as well as artist-led tours. Special guest artist H Locke will have a large drawing installation.

Julie Caves’ work celebrates beauty and its many juxtapositions: work and play, nature and synthesis, life and death, macro and micro, Heaven and Hell. She is constantly walking the tightrope between two ideas. This is most notably seen in her large window paintings, where she has created a series of works of views through windows, either panes in view so the window is quite apparent, and in other compositions no pane is shown so the work resembles and references traditional landscape painting.  Reminiscent of Gary Hume’s enamel Door Paintings from the mid-90s, instead of confronting us with a barrier to a world beyond, Caves’ windows invite us to explore that same world, and realise it really is quite beautiful.

Other concerns within Caves’ practice intrinsically revolve around colour. Each of her large scale abstract paintings (for which she is best known) are a record of a process carried out by the artist; set rules and decisions are established to start a painting (much like the invention of a new game), and devised as a means of creating pathways into explorations of colour and texture.

Julie Caves says: “I am very interested in the push-pull of visual space and the polarities of ideas - object and ground, positive and negative, good and evil. I have always looked at both sides of the coin, seen the hare and the duck. I am very interested in the structure of the painting and my own kind of balance. Often my method of closing-up, searching for rightness and negotiating each mark results in a complexity nearly hidden in the final simplification, a subtle activation. Sometimes it is a feeling of righting a wrong, one decision at a time, heading down a path to more correctness.”

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The reasons people have a painting on their wall

The reasons people have a painting on their wall:

1. They love it and love to look at it for long periods. 

2. They think it looks good in their room, makes the room look better. In extreme cases it may cover up wall imperfections.

3. It is a way to express their own taste. They wish to say something about themselves.

4. They like the subject matter. 

5. They know the artist, often a relative. 

6. It is a financial investment, they are hoping it will increase in value.

7. Artists may buy work of other artists whose technique they admire or to show solidarity with other artists.

8. Collectors may derive a personal satisfaction from discovering an artist and other psychological factors about collecting may come into play.

The reason may be a combination of these.

After getting some input over on my Facebook page I have made some adjustments.

Does this look like a good definitive list?

Behind Closed Doors exhibition

Behind Closed Doors is a group exhibition that brings together some of London’s most talented visual artists.  All artists are based at the Blackhorse Lane Studios in Walthamstow, E17. 

This is a rare opportunity to see an exhibition that brings together all the studio artists in one show.
11 – 13 October 2013 12-6pm
Private view: 11 October, 6-9pm

Artists:
Franki Austin
Julie Caves
Elizabeth de Monchaux
Francesco de Manincor
Duncan Evans
Pauline Evans
Charlotte Gerard
Jonet Harley-Peters
Denise Hickey
Charlotte Hodes
Neil Irons
Tam Joseph
Matthew Krishanu
Valerie Large
Jean Pierre Mas
Helen Maurer
Katrin Mäurich
Lucile Montague
Jonathan O'Dea
Michelle Reader
Daniels Rizzi
William Stok
Sandie Sutton
Barry Sykes

Plaster sculptures update

I have been building up more layers on the 40cm forms.
There are 10 forms in the set for a sculptural installation.
It will be one of the works in the Curiosity exhibition, installed in the Crypt Gallery.

This is where they are built up to as of today.

Art is everywhere in E17

My studio is in Walthamstow, East London.
I am also involved in art in the area.
This lovely article by Nick Cheshire of London Trends, 
Art is everywhere in E17, 
includes many things I am involved with.

You should go read it.

Article in the E-List

I have a mention and a painting in this article in The E-List
- a review of Behind Closed Doors on page 3
an exhibition on 1 – 13 October, 2013

Behind Closed Doors exhibition

Quantum Exhibition Blog

The 11 artists who have been working on the Quantum exhibition for the last year have been keeping a private working blog.
We have transferred much of it onto a public blog and are now updating it regularly so everyone can see what is happening in the run up to the show.

Quantum Exhibition Blog

Julie Caves, 100x100cm, work in progress

Plaster sculptures in progress

Plaster sculptures in progress for the Curiosity exhibition in October.

Julie Caves:

40cm plaster sculptures in progress
- Julie Caves

The latest apple drawing

Julie Caves pastel drawing

State of the Arts in East London

Thursday August 15th 2013 the exhibition celebrating the arts in Waltham Forest opens at The Mill on Coppermill Lane.

The 19 artists participating are member of the Waltham Forest Arts Club. Organised by Julie Caves and Mo Gallacio.

Helen Porter, Valeria Bateson, Linda Rowland

Waltham Forest Arts Club Summer Exhibition

Waltham Forest Arts Club was set up in 2003 to provide an arts network and meeting point for creative practitioners across the borough. Members include painters, printmakers, writers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians and craftspeople.  For their summer exhibition the visual artists in the group will be each be showing a recent artwork that together will represent the state of the arts in Waltham Forest.

“The Arts are very active in our borough and this exhibition will show the wide variety of work going on”, says Julie Caves one of the organisers.   The exhibition opens on August 15^th with an evening party to meet the artists and continues for three weeks.

August 15th to September 7th, 2013
Open Evening Thursday August 15th 6-9pm to meet the artists

At The Mill on Coppermill Lane (near St James Station)
7 – 11 Coppermill Lane
London E17 7HA

Mill opening times:
Friday and Saturday- 10 – 6pm, Tuesday to Thursday- 10 – 7pm, Sunday- 11 – 2pm