Mothers Red Hand Painting

Treating areas of design, film, sculpture and illustration, with awareness of how those parameters are effectively displaced, Julie Staniforth infiltrates graphics of the internet, of found objects, nature and cartoon, submerging into a dialogue of the themes of belonging, through subjects of the intimate, sexuality and touching upon the psychology of perpetuation in her early sculpture. A curiculum vitae , accumulating invite to show and arts for social change, a latent activist transposes the themes through penetrating art works that are a diaspora on the terrain of the contemporary debate on fragmentation, are questions of culture over nature, yet yield the task of healing as robust, sometimes appearing in the work as a pregnant pause. Approaching themes that were often conceptually driven by nature, her recent digital work, Apart From That, can be traced back to the initial conception of a desire towards a rhythmic expression of the abstract physicality of emotion, including the relationship between emotion and social responses. While there will be a fresh dialogue with nature, the appearance of the 'unassuming' in a marginal context remains. Influences include the bottom up politics and the visual impact of the internet, animation styles like that of the Simpsons, and artists, Marlene Dumas, Jeff Koons, John Hinde, Sam Taylor Wood and the seaside series by Martin Parr.