curriculum vitae
commissions,residencies, & exhibitions
2013 Greenfield: an installation of 120 flowers made from reclaimed and recycled materials to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Angel of the North, commissioned by Gateshead Council.
2013 Wallington Expedition: a two day walking performance at NT property, a WALK ON event for the Festival of the North East commissioned by VARC Wallington Expedition
2012 Heavy Plant Crossing perambulating sculpture &performance. Chelsea fringe Festival
2012 Expressions of Movement; Group show at The Grove Garden, Watford , Curated by Art Contact
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 of 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
2004-5 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
2000-01 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
2010 Artists Development Award, Northern Stage ‘Time
in Two’ theatre award to develop an idea on stage with full technical
backup & support, with a view to future co production.
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’ sculptures
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
2003-02 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 Avant 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. Publication
Dec
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