Julie Derbyshire
Julie Derbyshire is a photographic artist whose practice is research-based and process-led. She tells visual stories through her projects and her underlying concerns surround notions of fragility and transience and the universal themes of the human condition. Derbyshire incorporates processes of fabrication, manipulation and disruption into her work, including of the final photographic prints themselves, using the photograph as the final distillation of these processes.
She says: “The materiality of my chosen subject matter, whether handmade artefact, found object or organic matter, is a pivotal element. The narratives that drive my practice are mirrored in the way I use photography and sculpture both as a research tool and process, culminating in work that is situated at the juncture of these two means of expression.”
