Commentaries

In an Ideal World: the 2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award at Shepparton Art Museum

The exhibition gathers together two groups of works, the first a series of container forms, A Natural Experiment, and Rarely Seen, a foor-based installation and containers.

Like our world, Julie Bartholomew's art practice is open to surprising shlfts and departures

These works ask the viewer to question the familiar and discover alternative perspectives.

Just prior to the 3rd Australian Ceramic Triennale in Sydney in July 2009, seven ceramists gathered ...

Julie Bartholomew’s view of Western culture and its impacts in China is somewhat more ambivalent. During residency periods in China, Bartholomew has traced the advance of global brand marketing and the dissemination of its seductive message in the hushed, climate controlled pavilions of designer boutiques and superstores...

Porcelain sculpture makes a life-size impact at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery through new work from award-winning artist Dr Julie Bartholomew

"Commodity fetishism is ... the penetration of capitalist power-over into the core of our being, into all our habits of thought, all our relations with other people."

As Bartholomew suggests, Transitional Bodies refers to bodies that are ‘in transit’ and between destination points.

Hybridisation continues in 'The Music Room', where Julie Bartholomew re-created a 19th century Zoetrope using ...

Rapt and Branded titled Julie Bartholomew’s submission for a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of NSW.

Detached from the body, Bartholomew's outstretched
and extended limbs compel attention-now.

The investigation examined the relationship between female body change practices and consumer
culture.

An exhibition of white ceramics throws up a mirror to our quest for body conformity.

The installation, Transitional Bodies consists of four female figures that have been cast from actual
women; ...

An unnerving trio of fine porcelain objects has been awarded the 25th Gold Coast lnternational Ceramic
Art Award

"...there is an echo of loneliness in these works"

Julie Bartholomew embraces the ancient practice of ceramics within the context of the new: old tunes in new worlds, Maria Buchner reports

Contemporary Ceramics, she has combined traditional ceramics with digital media to produce objects such as a phone, typewriter and laptop computer.

ln this latest exhibition Julie Bartholomew merges one of the very oldest of art forms (ceramics) with the
technologies of the twentieth century that shape our present lives and our futures.

ln A matter of weight nine craft artists explore how the property of weight is expressed in their work both physically and conceptually.