Julia Barton - artist CV
Commissions, Residencies, & Exhibitions
2012 Heavy Plant Crossing-sculpture & performance.
2012 ‘Fabric of Dance’ exhibition of sculptural costumes &
shadow projections Queens Hall, Northumberland
2011 ‘Lost & Found’ Pop up garden installation on the Swing
Bridge over the Tyne River, commission for
Newcastle & Gateshead Initiative
2010 Designer & Creative Artist:for ‘Title Pending’ a
collaborative development with the Novemember Club
Exploring experimental dance ideas relating to Chaos,
Order & Harmony at Northern Stage, Newcastle
2010 Designer for the Holocaust Memorial Remembrance Day.
Newcastle Theatre
2009 Designer & Creative Artist: ‘Traces & Graces’ dance &
theatrical promenade performance. Walton Manor Gardens.
Northumberland.
2008 ‘Confinement’ installation exhibition: Queens Hall
Gallery, Hexham
2007 FLOW Art & Ecology exhibition: Northumberland.
2007 Fraserburgh, RevitHAR project: Scotland. Commission
‘Green Route’ town centre planting/landscaping project
2007 Northern Neuro Disability Services Centre: Walker Gate,
Newcastle: Commission. Flowing Walls, six steel curved
walls, containing slate and vertically planted with grasses
2006 National Trust Cragside Gardens, Northumberland.
Commission ‘Elaborations’ installation multiple plaster
containers embellished with architectural details cast
from the interior of Cragside House, to display pine
saplings, ferns and a specimen Rhododendron
2005 Residency & Installation of ‘Resurrection’ a living
sculptural response to the decommissioned Chatham County
Jail in Savannah Georgia, USA.
2004 Harrogate Museums & Art presentation for the Entente
Florale in the Harrogate Gardens. Solo exhibition
entitled ‘Botanic Dance’, composed of six phyto-forms
2003 Westonbirt International Festival of Gardens,
Gloucestershire. ‘Plexus’, a garden, inspired by the
microscopic structure of the arboretum’s trees
2003 Scottish Plant Collectors Garden, Pitlochry, Scotland.
Commission ‘Dispersal’ sculpture. Steel, slate, conifer
and alpine plants, made in response to the art of plant
collection
2003 Meadow Gallery, Shropshire. Commission ‘Desire to enter’
installation for the Borderlines exhibition
2003 The Crafts Council Gallery, London. Group exhibition,
Out There, Art for Gardens
2002 Conservatoire International des parcs et jardins et du
paysage, 11th International Garden Festival, at the
Loire, France. Design Installation commission
2012 Heavy Plant Crossing-sculpture & performance.
Chelsea Fringe Festival
2012 Expressions of Movement;Group show at The Grove Garden,
Watford. Curated by Art Contact2012 Expressions of Movement;Group show at The Grove Garden,
2012 ‘Fabric of Dance’ exhibition of sculptural costumes &
shadow projections Queens Hall, Northumberland
2011 ‘Lost & Found’ Pop up garden installation on the Swing
Bridge over the Tyne River, commission for
Newcastle & Gateshead Initiative
2010 Designer & Creative Artist:for ‘Title Pending’ a
collaborative development with the Novemember Club
Exploring experimental dance ideas relating to Chaos,
Order & Harmony at Northern Stage, Newcastle
2010 Designer for the Holocaust Memorial Remembrance Day.
Newcastle Theatre
2009 Designer & Creative Artist: ‘Traces & Graces’ dance &
theatrical promenade performance. Walton Manor Gardens.
Northumberland.
2008 ‘Confinement’ installation exhibition: Queens Hall
Gallery, Hexham
2007 FLOW Art & Ecology exhibition: Northumberland.
2007 Fraserburgh, RevitHAR project: Scotland. Commission
‘Green Route’ town centre planting/landscaping project
2007 Northern Neuro Disability Services Centre: Walker Gate,
Newcastle: Commission. Flowing Walls, six steel curved
walls, containing slate and vertically planted with grasses
2006 National Trust Cragside Gardens, Northumberland.
Commission ‘Elaborations’ installation multiple plaster
containers embellished with architectural details cast
from the interior of Cragside House, to display pine
saplings, ferns and a specimen Rhododendron
2005 Residency & Installation of ‘Resurrection’ a living
sculptural response to the decommissioned Chatham County
Jail in Savannah Georgia, USA.
2004 Harrogate Museums & Art presentation for the Entente
Florale in the Harrogate Gardens. Solo exhibition
entitled ‘Botanic Dance’, composed of six phyto-forms
2003 Westonbirt International Festival of Gardens,
Gloucestershire. ‘Plexus’, a garden, inspired by the
microscopic structure of the arboretum’s trees
2003 Scottish Plant Collectors Garden, Pitlochry, Scotland.
Commission ‘Dispersal’ sculpture. Steel, slate, conifer
and alpine plants, made in response to the art of plant
collection
2003 Meadow Gallery, Shropshire. Commission ‘Desire to enter’
installation for the Borderlines exhibition
2003 The Crafts Council Gallery, London. Group exhibition,
Out There, Art for Gardens
2002 Conservatoire International des parcs et jardins et du
paysage, 11th International Garden Festival, at the
Loire, France. Design Installation commission
2001 Levens Hall Gardens, Cumbria. Residency, Year of the
Artist, creating a series of contemporary sculptures
‘phyto-forms’ in response to the Hall’s magnificent topiary
2001 Artist in Residence & commission at Newcastle General
Hospital, Artworks for the Centre for the Health of
the Elderly,
Awards
2012 Arts Council Award for the Arts - Heavy Plant Crossing
Artist, creating a series of contemporary sculptures
‘phyto-forms’ in response to the Hall’s magnificent topiary
2001 Artist in Residence & commission at Newcastle General
Hospital, Artworks for the Centre for the Health of
the Elderly,
Awards
2012 Arts Council Award for the Arts - Heavy Plant Crossing
2012 Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea - Arts Award
2010 Artists Development Award, Northern Stage ‘Time in Two’
theatre award
2007 Research & Development award, Arts Council England &
Newcastle City Council, to research a
self-sustaining growing installation entitled ‘Living Room’
2003 Encore bursary, Arts Council England, to research
materials & methods for making ‘growing’ rooms
2002 Travel & training Award, Northern Arts, to research
opportunities in USA
2001 Year of the Artist residency, Northern Arts on behalf of
the Arts Council of England
Lecturing/teaching/guest speaker
2010 Garden History Museum, London . Talk & on stage guest
exploring art in gardens & landscapes
2005 Chatham County Jail, Savannah. Talk & walk with the
artist, talk explaining the inspiration and making of the
installation ‘Resurrection’
2004 Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA, teaching
'Botanical Formations’
2003 Botanical Gardens Kew, Illustrated talk for the
Society of Garden Designs autumn conference entitled
‘Almost Gardens’
2003 Middlesbrough College of Art & Design, BA fine art students
2002 University of Central Lancashire, BA Garden Design
students
2002 Hereford College of Art & Design, BA fine arts & design
students
2002 Huntington Botanical Gardens, California USA. Public
illustrated lecture on the ‘Phyto-form’ exhibition
Publications
2009 Avante Gardeners: 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary
Landscape: by Tim Richardson,
2005 ‘Achieving Resurrection’ – an artist’s journal, describing
the inspiration and journey to the making of the
installation Resurrection in Savannah Georgia, USA.
2005 The Telegraph, Feb, article referring to Phyto-form
sculptures
2005 Garden Design Journal, Sept, article focusing on the
installation ‘Resurrection’
2004 Garden Design Journal, Mar, Horti-sculpture, feature on my
practice as an artist
2003 Garden Design Journal, Oct review of ‘Plexus’ at Westonbirt
International Garden Festival
the inspiration and journey to the making of the
installation Resurrection in Savannah Georgia, USA.
2005 The Telegraph, Feb, article referring to Phyto-form
sculptures
2005 Garden Design Journal, Sept, article focusing on the
installation ‘Resurrection’
2004 Garden Design Journal, Mar, Horti-sculpture, feature on my
practice as an artist
2003 Garden Design Journal, Oct review of ‘Plexus’ at Westonbirt
International Garden Festival
2003 Crafts magazine, July/August. Feature on garden sculpture
profiling my work
2002 Crafts magazine, Jan/Feb. Review of ‘Phyto-form’exhibition
2002 Curious Gardeners’ book accompanying television programme
for BBC 2, by Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, Six Elements of
Garden Design, ISBN 0-7553-1068-3
2001 Gardens Illustrated, issue 65, review of ‘Phyto-form’
exhibition
2001 The Telegraph, June, Wired & Wonderful, feature article on
Julia Barton’s topiary art
2001 Catalogue, Phyto-form an exhibition by Julia Barton.
Catalogue, ISBN 0-906657 13X
Contact Details: 0797 799 7605 julia_barton@btinternet.com
http://julia-barton-sculptor.typepad.com/studioworks/
www.julia-barton.co.uk
profiling my work
2002 Crafts magazine, Jan/Feb. Review of ‘Phyto-form’exhibition
2002 Curious Gardeners’ book accompanying television programme
for BBC 2, by Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, Six Elements of
Garden Design, ISBN 0-7553-1068-3
2001 Gardens Illustrated, issue 65, review of ‘Phyto-form’
exhibition
2001 The Telegraph, June, Wired & Wonderful, feature article on
Julia Barton’s topiary art
2001 Catalogue, Phyto-form an exhibition by Julia Barton.
Catalogue, ISBN 0-906657 13X
Contact Details: 0797 799 7605 julia_barton@btinternet.com
http://julia-barton-sculptor.typepad.com/studioworks/
www.julia-barton.co.uk
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