Biography
Julie-Ann Simpson (b.1992, Scotland) is a painter whose practice looks into the porous boundaries between interior and exterior spaces, dreams and reality. The paintings sit in that transitional place, often beginning as representations, but eventually seem to slip into ambiguous afterimages. Simpson’s latest body of work considers our interrelationship with the natural world bringing together ideas of imagination, ritual, memory, pleasure and language. Julie-Ann lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.
Education
BA, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, 2010-2014
Press
2021, Top 100 Emerging Artists To Watch - The Artist's Choice, The Auction Collection
2020, Talk for Friday Forum, VAS & Creative Informatics
2020, Interview with Curator Joséphine, Procrastinarting
2020, Artists in Quarantine: Lockdown Interview, PaperView Auction
2019, Art reviews: RSA Annual Exhibition, The Scotsman
2019, Issue 15, Pushing Out The Boat
2018, Residency Press Release, Evening Express
2017, In the Studio with Julie-Ann Simpson, Uncertain Territories
2017, Issue 14, Pushing Out The Boat
2016, 'For The Time Being' by Julie-Ann Simpson at Grays School of Art!, Mood of Collapse
2015, Jullie-Ann Simpson: Illuminate, Summerhall TV
2015, Artist set to show work at Exhibition , Evening Express
2015, Recent Graduate Receives Guthrie Award, Gray's School of Art
2015, Aberdeen Artist Julie-Ann Proves Top Drawer on National Stage, STV7
2015, Painting Inspired by Deeside Forests Picks up RSA Prize, Robert Gordon University
2014, Gray's School of Art Show is Fine for all Forms, The Scotsman
2014, Gray's School of Art, Mood of Collapse
2014, Gray's Degree Show, Central Station
Exhibitions
2021, All About Eve, Delphian Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2021, The Healing Wound, Purslane, London, UK (Group).
2021, Regnum Luminis, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2021, NOW Futures, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2021, Art on a Postcard: Summer Auction, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2021, The Top 100, The Auction Collective, The Department Store, Brixton, London, UK (Group)
2021, Lovers Lane, Oceans Apart, Salford, UK (Group)
2021, Green Fires, The Violet Hour, London, UK (Group)
2021, Tilted, Wilder Gallery with Purslane, London, UK (Group)
2020, Original Paper, Wilder Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2020, F L O W, Visual Arts Scotland Members’ Exhibition, UK (Group)
2020, The tales we tell ourselves, Purslane, UK (Group)
2020, On The Strangest Sea, The Violet Hour, UK (Group)
2020, Works on Paper 2, Blue Shop Cottage, London, UK (Group)
2020, A Dream Is Not A Dream, Purslane, UK (Group)
2020, Borders Art Fair, Kelso, UK (Group)
2020, Studio Exhibition, Rogart Street Campus, Glasgow, UK (Group)
2020, 20 Artists, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, UK (Group)
2019, Little Originals, Dock Street Studios, Dundee, UK (Group)
2019, RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK (Group)
2019, Where the Wild Thyme Grows, The Jam Factory, Oxford, UK (Group)
2019, Open Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK (Group)
2019, ALIGHT, Visual Arts Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK (Group)
2018, What The Water Tells/はしご湯, Takasagoyu Bathhouse, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan (Group)
2018, Painting Exhibition, Petit a Petit General Store, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan (Group)
2018, Current, Visual Arts Scotland, Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay, UK (Group)
2017, The September Issue, The Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen, UK (Group)
2017, Uncertain Territories, Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen, UK (Group)
2017, Sketch, Rabley Drawing Centre, Malborough, UK (Group)
2017, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Plymouth College of Art, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, UK (Group)