JULIA HESLOP
Julia Heslop is an artist, writer and researcher based at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She has a BA in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art, a Master of Fine Art from Newcastle University and a PhD in Human Geography at Durham University. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Architecture at Newcastle University. She works interdisciplinarily across the boundaries of art and architecture and it often takes the form of large scale architectural installations, cross art-form performances and video.
The potentials for deep participation in the urban environment are at the centre of her practice and she often works in participatory, slow ways with groups and communities. Her work is inherently urban focused and she is interested in the role of the artist as a critical spatial practitioner, who impacts upon the fabric of place, and in so doing uses the work to ask important questions regarding land and property ownership, housing precarity, urban planning and local democracy.
CV
'Gathering', Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
'Idea of North', BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Moving On Up, Moving On Out, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne
Protohome, Newcastle upon Tyne
Four Words, Liverpool Media Wall
Urban Organisms, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Spider Web City premiere at Uncharted Festival, Ali Pasha Castle, Porto Palermo, Albania
ReCall project exhibition, Nordic Embassy, Berlin. See results here and here.
ReCall DoW, Venice Architecture Biennale. See documentation here.
Master of Fine Art Degree Show, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Master of Fine Art Interim Show, Newcastle University
MA Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
[transterminal], Long Gallery, Newcastle University
New Graduates, Bridge View Gallery, Aberdeen
Brigadoon, Southside Studios, Glasgow, as part of the Mutual
Graduates 2009, Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Drawn Together, Pentagon Galleries, Glasgow
Artsyland II, Wall Projects, Montrose
Kill Your Darlings, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, as part of The Glasgow Collective
Exhibitions:
Events:
Protohome, Newcastle upon Tyne
Idea Camp, The European Cultural Foundation, Sweden
'Urban Organisms' at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sound piece: 'No Map, only Memory' broadcast on stress.fm as part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Live performance of 'You Can Take It With You' at Newbridge Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne as part of Project Rhubarb's 'Border's Project'.
'You Can Take It With You' at the Everyword Festival of New Writing, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.
'You Can Take It With You' as part of the arts collective All Across The Telegraphs, commissioned and shown at Up the Wall festival of performing
arts, Chester. This was a multimedia piece consisting of an installation, music and spoken word.
May - August 2016
September 2015:
May - June 2015:
September 2013:
March 2012:
November 2011:
October 2011:
Education:
PhD in Human Geography, Durham University
Master of Fine Art, Newcastle University (Distinction)
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting & Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art (2:1)
Pratt Institute, New York, USA
September 2018 - February 2019
May - September 2018
February - March 2017:
May - August 2016:
January 2016:
May - June 2015:
August 2014:
April - May 2014
September 2013:
September 2012:
September 2012:
August - September 2012:
August - September 2011:
February - May 2011:
February 2011:
February - April 2010:
September 2009:
September 2009:
August - September 2009:
August 2009:
July 2009:
June 2009:
2008:
2007:
2006:
2013 - 2017:
2010 - 2012:
2005 - 2009:
2007:
Teaching/Presenting:
Lecturer, Architecture, Planning and Landscape Department, Newcastle University
Teaching undergraduate Human Geography, Durham University
Presenter, Urbanistas exhibition, Newcastle upon Tyne
Panelist, Durham Moot
Paper presentation at the Association of American Geographers, Chicago
Panelist, The Northern Conversation, Durham
Organised the conference Sustainability in the City of Flux at Newcastle University
Artist's talk and tutorial teaching on the Master Of Fine Art course, Newcastle University
Presentation at 'Creative Methodologies' symposium, Durham
Presentation at 'Connecting Principle' conference at Newcastle University.
Fine Art department, Newcastle University: Teaching Assistant on Painting module for second year BA undergraduate students.
Artists talk in the Fine Art department, Newcastle College
Present
October 2013 - November 2016:
October 2015:
July 2015:
April 2015:
December 2014:
November 2014:
November 2014:
March 2013:
November 2012:
September 2010 - January 2012:
November 2009:
Articles/Reviews:
May 2016:
May 2016:
May 2016:
May 2016
October 2015:
September 2015:
July 2015:
December 2014:
April 2013:
January 2013:
September 2012:
Interview with BBC Radio Newcastle
Interview with Tyne Tees News
Article in The Big Issue
Article in The Northern Correspondent
Interview for Cerrojo Urbano
'Predicaments: Unresolved and overlapping (a response)' in South Leeds Life
'Art, Cities and Landscape' publication
Interview in The Northern Correspondent, Issue 1
'Self-build in a time of austerity', article for The New Left Project.
'Social Spaces: Open for Business?', article for 'Convention, Habit or Custom' publication.
Interview for Peel Magazine
© 2018 by Julia Heslop
Centre for Social Justice and Community Action small grant award, Durham University
ESRC DTC Impact Award for Protohome
ESRC Impact Accelleration Account Award
Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience small grant, Durham University
Second Prize for ReCall: Beyond Memorialisation project. See project here and here.
NCL Plus Award, Newcastle University
Economic and Social Research Council funding for a PhD
Awarded the Bartlett Travel Bursary from Newcastle University for a research trip to Russia and Belarus
Awarded the Bartlett Travel Bursary from Newcastle University for a research trip to Albania.
Awards:
2016:
2016:
2015:
2014:
2014:
2014:
2013:
2012:
2011:
Commissions:
2018
2018:
2013:
'Gathering' commissioned by the Hatton Gallery
'Protohome' commissioned by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art for 'Idea of North' exhibition.
'Traversing the Round' commissioned by the Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France for the 'Art, Cities and Landscape' festival. See festival brochure here.