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Balance and Tension – a visit to the Glynn Vivian.

Author: Julie Brunskill February 15, 2021 0 Comments

Last year I managed a rare trip to a gallery (a snatched moment between lockdowns!) primarily to see the fabulous Pansy – Roy Efrat and Catrin Webster’s collaborative exhibition in the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea. While there I was chuffed…
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Art Galleries, Ceramics, Visual art

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MA – Final Show

Author: Julie Brunskill August 16, 2019 0 Comments

It’s been a very long time since I wrote a blog post! In autumn 2017 I began an MA in Fine Art – Contemporary Dialogues at UWTSD Swansea. I wanted to do this particular course as I liked the crossover…
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Art Installation, Visual art

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Cross-currents

Author: Julie Brunskill March 15, 2017 0 Comments

Cross-current: – 1. a current in a river or sea flowing across another current. 2. a conflicting tendency moving counter to the usual trend. These two pieces – Cross-currents and Sea Passage feel in some way separate from my other…
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Ceramics

art, black, ceramics, clay, interior, paper clay, sea, surface texture, texture

Shades of Clay

Author: Julie Brunskill November 22, 2016 0 Comments

My work can currently be seen at Kunsthuis in the annual ceramics exhibition ‘Shades of Clay’ which features 25 UK and international ceramicists. The exhibition runs until 24th December. “Shades of Clay’ comprises a whole breadth of clay based work…
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Thorn Forms

Author: Julie Brunskill May 3, 2016 0 Comments

Thorn l and Thorn ll are some of the final pieces I made towards the Maker in Focus exhibition at Mission Gallery. They are something of a return to the tree motif I initially envisaged as the major element within…
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Final chance to see Maker in Focus

Author: Julie Brunskill March 31, 2016 0 Comments

My Maker in Focus slot at Mission Gallery, Swansea finishes on Sunday 3rd April. If you would like to see it get in quick! The gallery is open from 11am to 5pm.

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Vulcan Black and Earthstone

Author: Julie Brunskill January 15, 2016 0 Comments

While producing this work for Maker in Focus at the Mission Gallery in Swansea, I’ve used, it turns out, several different clay bodies – two different blacks, terracotta, white earthenware, at least one earthstone, and three different paperclays. I think the…
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Lost trees, rising seas.

Author: Julie Brunskill December 1, 2015 0 Comments

‘Ebb Tide’, work in progress. When starting out on this work I intended combining the urban/industrial with elements of the natural world, envisaging the main signifier as being the tree. To an extent this has happened but as time went past I…
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