Julie Nelson has gained a reputation for her striking ceramic work, which has encompassed the worlds of art and design.

With an ongoing fascination for the natural world, Julie seeks to express the connectedness of nature and patterns that repeat throughout anatomy, botany, and the landscapes around us. 

For her installation Flock, Julie handcrafted over 100 ceramic birds that initially appear as a mass but on closer inspection reveal a group of interrelated individuals. 

“The idea of repetition appeals to me, reproducing but with inherent variation. Like nature, every act of replication has some element of randomness - small changes that make up the richness of life. Ceramics is the perfect material to explore this concept as it is so sensitive to its environment, the heat from your fingers, the water content, the time taken to make a piece and then there is the magic of the kiln. It’s all chemistry which is the source of life.”

Tous Mag, 2020

EDUCATION

• BA (Hons) in 3D Design, specialising in Ceramics at Middlesex Polytechnic.
  

EXHIBITIONS

• 2017 to date Permanent Exhibition at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 to date Affordable Art Fairs, Battersea, Hampstead with Cameron Contemporary

• 2016 Permanent Exhibition at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2016 Affordable Art Fairs - Bristol, Battersea and Hampstead with CCA

• 2015 Permanent Exhibition at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2015 Affordable Art Fairs - Bristol, Battersea and Hampstead with CCA

• 2014 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol with Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2014 Permanent Exhibition at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2013 Affordable Art Fair, London

• 2012 Permanent Exhibition at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2010 Recollect, London Glassblowing, London
  

COLLECTIONS

• Private collections in the USA and Great Britain