Photo: Ana Carneiro
Julia Miranda is an anglo brazilian artist. Daughter of two painters, she has exhibited in Rio, New York, Barcelona and Munich and has a home studio in East London. Here she makes use of traditional media as well as found surfaces such as timber off-cuts, doors, bed sheets and paper packaging. These discarded materials come with a patina of possible histories. The process of reapropriation - concealing or emphasizing what already exists - constructs new narratives.
A personal history of transition is present in the works. Through the manipulation of materials across these different surfaces, themes such as change, time, memory and human interaction are obliquely investigated. The idea of chance is often explored by starting with an “accident” of spilled powder pigment or by watching liquid colour take it's own course across the surface...suggested images may be defined or erased as they appear, and recognizable motifs from drawn or collaged figuration come in and out of focus. While the driving concern is with the formal elements of the work, a piece, once finished, also serves as a record of the artist's interior life, played out through the relationships between colours, planes and forms.
Exhibitions
2022
May: Residency and exhibition of 9-metre long painting, Casa de Petropolis Cultural Centre, Brazil
2021
September: 6-metre mural for the Robert Kennedy Foundation at Ripples of Hope Festival, Home, Manchester
July: E17 Art Trail group show
May: Group show at Cultural Centre Casa de Petropolis, Brazil
Artist in Residence at Blue Gate Fields Primary School, Shadwell
2016-2019
studying MA in Children’s Illustration, Cambridge School of Art.
2018
August: The Summer Show, Arts Chapel, Abergevenny
2017
November: Barbican Arts Group Prize, London (3rd prize)
September: Beautility at Brazilian Embassy, London
June: Coya Restaurant, Mayfair, London (solo)
January: Mothership, Bruton Arts Factory, Somerset
2016
Solo exhibitions:
February: Vogue Brasil Magazine studio visit and interview
June: Coya Restaurant, Mayfair
Group Exhibitions:
June: Untitled_BCN, Barcelona
July: Walthamstow Windows Gallery, London
Ongoing: Home from Home Gallery, Munich
November: Barbican Arts Group Prize, London
December: Mothership, Wandsworth, London
APT Christmas show invited artist, Deptford, London
2015
Solo exhibitions:
Galeria Patrícia Costa, Rio de Janeiro
The Festival of the Brain, Folkestone
Group exhibitions:
xvi Collective, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
Lotolie, London
xvi Collective, University of the Arts, Norwich
2014
xvi Collective, Sluice Art Fair, London
2013
Solo: “Transgressions” George Gallery, London
Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition, ZAP, London
“Animamus” at Culture Fix, New York
“Tasty Modern” Schwarz Gallery, London
“Magic Shop” Meanwhile Space, London
2012
Solo: “STUCK” Original Gallery, London
Lamb and Lion Gallery, London
“Share and Exchange” ZAP Gallery, London
“LDN-BCN” Untitled BCN, Barcelona
“ALAS” Matt Roberts Arts, London
2011
Solo exhibitions:
“Creatures” Home From Home Gallery, Munich
“Volte Sempre” Paço Museum of Art, Rio
“E1_5NW”, Whitechapel, London
Group exhibitions:
“Magic Beans”, Clerkenwell, London
“Airshow” Original Gallery, London