Biography

Julie studied printmaking and artist book construction at Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia where she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) in 2011.

Barratt is nationally and internationally recognised for her artists’ books having had her first solo book exhibition at the University of Western England, Bristol in 2007. Her books are included in many public and private collections worldwide.

Since 2004, she has been working exclusively with artist books and prints and is concerned with texture and tactility, with creating work to suit a wider audience that includes the blind and vision impaired.

Poster Presentation

Beyond the Visual
The idea of interpreting 2D work as sound has been something that Julie Barratt has been interested in for some time and collaborating with Australian sound-artist Jay-Dea Lopez has given her the opportunity to pursue this desire. Barratt’s artist book ‘The Mourning After’ is a mixed media work in which the hand-stitched pages reveal a narrative relating to the artist’s father’s death.

Lopez’s sound composition uses modified recordings of stainless steel pins slowly dropping onto a plate in Barratt’s studio. These pins were then inserted into the pages of ‘The Mourning After’. The sound has a meditative quality, which inherently reflects the process of making the work that involved the insertion of over 3000 pins. This process took countless weeks and allowed the artist time to sit with and process her grief.