Julie Robertson MA
I am a multidisciplinary artist (sculpture, canvases and photography are constants and recently I have found resolution of concepts in installations) and love to learn, so often dip into workshops and absorb new techniques as opportunities arise. Always looking to develop and grow, I have taken the opportunity to study and keep up to date with trends and processes during my career.
Themes in my work include equality and humanity and I try to bring creativity to the wider community through charitable efforts and by providing workshops and tutoring small groups and individuals.
Having moved to East Devon recently, I hope to convert all my study and experience into producing new artworks, and updating existing lines of enquiry, to bringing my archive of work to the attention of collectors, and to produce affordable items based on those works. I am currently preparing a new studio space in order to achieve this, and hope to welcome visitors to this new space throughout September during Devon Open Studios.
The studio name came about on an Arty daytrip to Eynsham, (to the oldest Open Studios event in the country, in Oxfordshire) somewhere I was going to move to in the 80's but never did. Former lives and all that.
Whilst trying to find a venue in the village, I spotted a tortoise heading for the busy main road and a pile of spilt fruit, with trucks rumbling constantly through the town I knew it was a critical situation and needed to act. it was a hairy moment. I rescued the tortoise and mentioned to my companion 'if I ever have a studio, I'll have to call it Kamikaze Tortoise', and the name stuck.
Themes in my work include equality and humanity and I try to bring creativity to the wider community through charitable efforts and by providing workshops and tutoring small groups and individuals.
Having moved to East Devon recently, I hope to convert all my study and experience into producing new artworks, and updating existing lines of enquiry, to bringing my archive of work to the attention of collectors, and to produce affordable items based on those works. I am currently preparing a new studio space in order to achieve this, and hope to welcome visitors to this new space throughout September during Devon Open Studios.
The studio name came about on an Arty daytrip to Eynsham, (to the oldest Open Studios event in the country, in Oxfordshire) somewhere I was going to move to in the 80's but never did. Former lives and all that.
Whilst trying to find a venue in the village, I spotted a tortoise heading for the busy main road and a pile of spilt fruit, with trucks rumbling constantly through the town I knew it was a critical situation and needed to act. it was a hairy moment. I rescued the tortoise and mentioned to my companion 'if I ever have a studio, I'll have to call it Kamikaze Tortoise', and the name stuck.