curriculum vitae
current projects
2009-10 Studio work: experimentation with interactive assemblages, 3D drawings & shadows
2009-10 Sculpture & planting commission: Killingworth roundabout, North Tyneside
2007-09 Research & development of "Living Room" - a self-sustaining growing installation for proposed siting in derelict urban settings
recent projects:
2009 Designer & artist Creative artist: 'Traces & Graces' dance & theatrical promenade performance. Walton Manor Gardens. Northumberland
2008 Creative Artist : "We got Mittens Too". Promenade theatre production by the European Players. Literary & Philosophical Society Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2008 "Confinement" installation: Queens Hall Gallery, Hexham
2007 FLOW Art & Ecology exhibition: Northumberland. Rain Harvester installation Autumn 07. www.flow-exhibition.co.uk
2006-07 Fraserburgh, RevitHAR project: Scotland. Commission "Green Route" town centre planting and landscaping project
2004-07 Northern Neurological Disability Services Centre: Walker Gate, Newcastle: Commission Curved Walls, six steel curved walls, containing slate and vertically planted with grasses
2006 National Trust Cragside Gardens, Northumberland. Commission "Elaborations" installation multiple planted containers cast with architectural details from the interior of Cragside House
2005 Chatham County Jail, Savannah, Georgia.
USA "Resurrection" a living sculptural response to the decommissioned
Jail
2004 Savannah College of Art and Design,
Georgia, USA. Artist in Residence
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 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
2002-03 Scottish Plant Collectors Garden,
Pitlochry, Scotland. Commission "Dispersal" sculpture. Steel, slate,
conifer and alpine plants, made in response to the art of plant collection
2002 Conservatoire International des parcs et jardins et du paysage, 11th International Garden Festival, at the Loire, France. "Les sentiers seduisant" a surreal response to the festivals theme L"Eroticisme et la Jardin
2000-01 Levens Hall Gardens, Cumbria. Residency, Year of the Artist, exploring the cross fertilization of ideas and materials from sculpture and horticulture. A series of contemporary sculptures "phyto-forms" in response to the Hall"s magnificent topiary
awards
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
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
press
2005 "Achieving Resurrection" – an artist"s journal, describing the inspiration and journey of 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
television
2002 Gardeners World BBC2, Review of the Westonbirt International Festival of Gardens
2002 Curious Gardens, Six Elements of Garden Design BBC 2
2001 Look North, May, Review of Phyto-form exhibition