Lot 34 - Julie Caves - Malibu

Acrylic and varnish on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Mercedes Lucy

About
Julie Caves is a painter of still lifes. Sometimes she approaches her subject directly and paints roomscapes and objects from observation, but often she focuses just on the colour and light separated from the subject, letting the painting develop intuitively, and those works are usually read as abstract paintings. She likes having these two ways of working, that she switches back and forth between. She says: I often make a body of work because I have a hunch about an idea, I don’t know if it will work, but I want to see what it will look like. The materials and process of painting are very important to me. I love a good painting composition, just on the edge of imbalance. I adore a thin stain of colour barely washed on, next to a juicy slab of thick, pasty paint.

Education
2017-2019
Alternative MA, Turps Studio Painting Programme

2012
Independent Curating course (certificate) at Central St Martins

2004
MA in Bookarts, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Art

2001
BFA (Hons) in Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin

2001
Studio Art, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Scrumptious, Convivium Gallery, London, UK
Yummy Yummy Yummy, Cliffs, Margate, UK

2022
Shimmy, Lido Stores, Margate, UK

2021
Lost in the Woods, Stone Space Gallery, London, UK

2016
Painting Without Beginning or End, Heathcote Arms, London, UK

2015
Colourful Language at Hoe Street Central, Walthamstow, London, UK

2013
Curiosity: an art practice as a way of looking, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK

2012
They Do Things Differently Here, Artworks Project Space, London, UK
Cloud 8, Arts and Crusts, Chapel End, London, UK

2007
Colour Matters, Oxford House, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Beep Longlist exhibition, Swansea
Hypha x Dispensary Open, Wrexham
Creative Bloc, Fill the Gap, London
GOLD!, Artworks Project Space, London
It Rose and It Fell, Terrace Gallery, London
Fight Flight or Freeze, Pictorem Gallery, London
A Room of One’s Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford
Multitasking, Lido Stores, Margate
This Year's Model, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
Cat Flap Blink, Terrace Gallery, London

2023
Sugar Cube, Lido Stores, Margate
Goddesses on Sea, Lido Stores, Margate
Windows and Thresholds: Breaking Glass, Bell House, Dulwich, London
Tart Factory, Tart Gallery London
Goddesses, Terrace Gallery, Leyton, London
Mermaids Always Have Graceful Arms, Lido Stores, Margate
There Are No Things Only Relationships, Terrace Gallery at Karya, Highams Park, London
This Year’s Model part 1, Studio1.1 Gallery, London

2022
Seeing, Feeling, Forgetting, APT Gallery, London
Still Looking, The Lido Stores, Margate
Colour, The Stone Space, London
Starting the Line, travelling drawing project
This Year’s Model part 3, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
Seedbomb, Terrace Gallery, London
Sonic Spring, Filly Brook, London
Old Parcels Office Open, Scarborough

2021-22
A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary

2021
Lido Open, The Lido Stores, Margate
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, The House of Smalls, Swindon
A Break in the Clouds, Winns Gallery, London (3 person)
Studio Confetti, Terrace Gallery, London
A Space to Hold the Gaze, Liliya Gallery, Putney, London

2020
Waving in the Distance, Terrace Gallery, London

2019
Exceptional Award exhibition, Collyer Bristow, London
A Hand Stuffed Mattress, Terrace Gallery, London
Time Flies Like the Wind, Fruit Flies Like Bananas, Art Academy, London
Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, London
40 Years, Pictorem Gallery, London
Traces, Artworks Project Space, London
Prufrock, Centre Gallery, Margate
Delphian Open Call 2019 Winners Exhibition, Printspace, London

2018
Artist of the Day (Turps Painters), Flowers Gallery, London
Frankenstein, Espacio Gallery, London

2017
Afternoon Tea: Works on Paper, Chiara Williams, Margate

2016
Palimpsest, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Made in Margate, Viking Gallery, Margate
Looking Up, Studio1.1 Gallery, London
Seeing is Believing, St John's Church, London
Leytonstone Arts Trail Gateposts Project (two site-specific installations), London

Gallery Representation
Lido Stores (Margate, UK)

Public Collections
Bodleian Library (Oxford, UK)
Oxford Brooks University (Oxford, UK)
Manchester Metropolitan University Library (Manchester, UK)
University College Northampton (Northampton, UK)
BookROOM Archives, Witte de With (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Tate Britain Special Collection has acquired three books (London, UK)
Camberwell College of Arts Special Collection has acquired two books (London, UK)
Two serigraphs in the permanent collection of the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas, USA)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Valencia, Spain)

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Two abstract paintings looking at shapes, colour, brushstrokes, and scale.