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9781923042506

Julie Blyfield

Chasing a passion

Caitlin Eyre, Bronwyn Watson, Julie Blyfield

Julie Blyfield: Chasing a passion celebrates the lifework of renowned South Australian jeweller and metalsmith Julie Blyfield and her status as a JamFactory ICON. In 2007, Blyfield became the recipient of the South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Award, one outcome of which was the publication of a monograph on her work written by Stephanie Radok and Dick Richards.

This second volume detailing Blyfield's prolific artistic career identifies the developments and salient influences in her practice in the 17 years since the publication of the SALA monograph. Although this book particularly focuses on the work made in her home studio following her departure from Gray Street Workshop at the end of 2009, an overview of her earlier practice is included, with the aim of both contextualising and providing insight into the work made by her in the last decade and a half.

The book features an essay by Bronwyn Watson that offers a vivid and intimate portrait of Blyfield set against the backdrop of her home studio, highlighting the importance of her much-loved garden in providing inspiration for her work. A curated selection of archival texts explore Blyfield's major bodies of work and exhibitions since 2007, featuring pieces of writing that offer insights from those who have worked closely with Blyfield over the years, along with a small reflective piece by Blyfield herself. These existing texts - by Helen Fuller, Wendy Walker, Dr Elizabeth Goring, Caroline Billing, Julie Ewington, Bronwyn Watson and Emma O'Neill - follow. Spanning 2000-2024, these previously published essays and reviews discuss Blyfield's key works and pivotal exhibitions. The book concludes with an dedicated insight into Blyfield's most recent work, the Viridescent Corallium series, by JamFactory Curator and Exhibitions Manager Caitlin Eyre, who worked with Blyfield in the development of the national touring exhibition JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a passion.

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Caitlin Eyre is an arts writer and the Curator and Exhibitions Manager at JamFactory in Adelaide (Tarntanya), South Australia. In 2024, she curated JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a passion, a major national touring exhibition of Julie Blyfield's work. Caitlin has previously undertaken a curatorial internship at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, as well as an editorial arts writing internship at Berlin Art Link in Germany. Her personal research interests include mourning and sentimental jewellery (especially hairwork) and women's folk crafts.

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Bronwyn Watson has been writing about the visual arts for over 35 years as a feature writer, critic and columnist for newspapers and magazines such as the Sydney Morning Herald, the Weekend Australian, the Bulletin, the Art Gallery of New South Wales's LOOK magazine, Artlink, Art Monthly and Art & Australia. For the past 15 years she has been writing the weekly 'Public works' column in the arts section of the Weekend Australian, which focuses on artworks in public collections around Australia. She is currently working on a publication featuring a collection of her columns. Bronwyn holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in fine arts, and a Diploma of Art Education, both from the University of Sydney. She has taught visual art at a western Sydney high school and has lectured and tutored at universities such as Deakin University in Melbourne (Naarm) and the University of Canberra (Ngunnawal). She recently completed a master's degree in Applied Linguistics, researching sociolinguistics, at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (Meanjin).

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Julie Blyfield won the $50,000 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2011 with her artwork Scintilla Series "Spiralling weed, Soft sponge, Sea urchin" Vessels 2010.

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ISBN   9781923042506
CATEGORY   
IMAGES   Full colour throughout
PAGE COUNT   160
DIMENSIONS   280 x 240 mm