Julie Blyfield Panorama

Book / Artists Catalogues Essays

Published: 16.11.2015

Elizabeth Goring

Editor:: Philip Hughes

Text by:: Philip Hughes, Elizabeth Goring

Edited by:: Ruthin Craft Centre and the Scottish Gallery

Edited at:: Ruthin

Edited on:: 2015

Technical data:: Paperback, 44 pages, Dimensions 210 x 220mm, Design: Lawn Creative, Liverpool, Print: Team Impression, Leeds

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-1-905865-14-7

Price:: from 18 €

Order:: Ruthin Craft Centre

Inner view

This Catalogue is published attending the travelling exhibition by Julie Blyfield and shows Objects and Jewellery, rooted in her unique response to her source materials and realised through her eloquent mastery of her chosen materials.

Julie Blyfield makes jewellery, small-scale vessels and sculptural objects in her covetable wisteria-clad studio nestling in the garden of her home in Adelaide, South Australia. The setting of her studio reveals much about her. A passionate gardener, her love of plants is apparently embedded inher DNA. Her exploration of her family history revealed several earlier generations of gardeners including a great-grandfather who worked for Suttons Seeds, the revered seedsmen and suppliers of plants, bulbs and fruit bushes, a company founded in Reading in England in 1806. Blyfield studio overlooks a flourishing garden of fruit trees and vegetables, as well as native and exotic plants (carefullymaintained with waste water through the years of water restrictions). A succession of noisy bird life frolics and squabbles in a terracotta bird bath. There could hardly be a more desirable workplace for a maker whose work is so deeply connected to the natural world.
/ Excerpt from the Book Julie Blyfield Panorama , Julie Blyfield by Elizabeth Goring