Julia Brewis

I have been a lecturer in creativity for design for many years and believe in the interconnectedness of things in them and to their outer world of social contact as well as to the environment. My passion is embodied experience where the senses and the logic of knowledge connect to produce newness. The felt experience opens the way for creativity to be free and to become enchanting.

I have been influenced by the Japanese way of understanding that how we listen will determine our response and that the ego is not in the best interest of creative response.

I have been travelling with the story of crow for a few years inspired by the poetry of Ted Hughes. My drawings show man’s separation from and at the same time his uncontrollable pull towards his natural instinct.

I studied Fine Art and received a National Higher Diploma in 1983.
I then completed a degree in Teaching in the modern condition with an M-Phil Teaching in 2004 with a thesis: Perception, Stories and Experience in Design Education.

2020 Group exhibition with the theme Artemis at the Contemporary Art gallery Cape Town,
exhibiting 4 Crow drawings.
1985 ’29 Women’ Exhibition at Michaelis School of Fine Art Cape Town
One man exhibition of printed textiles, graphics and paintings at Beuster Skolomowski Art
Gallery Pretoria
1983 Joint exhibition at S.A. Association of Fine Arts in Cape Town.
1979 Joint exhibition: Wall hangings, graphics and drawings, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
1976 One man exhibition graphics, painting and drawings at S.A. Association of Fine Arts Pretoria.
1975 Four young artists at the Mixer gallery, Johannesburg