Julie Masterton

Julie Masterotn founded Australia's Mobile Light Colour Centre that explores light and colour in the Australian Landscape.

The studio uses sculpture and photography to explore optical phenomena and patternation found through light and line in landscape – considering its significance as a contemporary cultural material. The work often results in vibrant optical pattern sculptures and photography. The physical sensation of the artworks are drawn from effects found on the eye through squinting, staring, afterimages, imprints left on vision effected by looking directly into light, and the movement of line in the landscape. Masterton’s photographic practice explores formations and patternation effects of rocks & waves that she refers to as skins. Often using chromatic techniques of identifiable hues or by selecting achromatic colors (black, white or grey) to heighten the viewer’s visual awareness of pattern over image. In doing so, her work appears to flicker, pulsate and move, encouraging the viewer’s visual tension or engaging a slight flickering effect.

2009 MFA The Royal College of Art, London, UK
2003 B.A | First Class Honours Visual Communication| University of Technology, Sydney

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Muuse Collection, Sydney
2020 Muuse Collection, Sydney
2019 Artform, Sydney
2015 Edge of Vision, M Contemporary, Sydney
Cold Blooded forms, Artform, London, UK
2014 Rock Wave, Artform, London
2013 Varying Objects, Artspace, Project Space, Sydney
2012 Took my hands off my eyes too soon, Estate Gallery, London
2011Image Line, Hockney Gallery, London
'Lange Nacht der Museen,' Kunst & Design Galerie, Heidelberg


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Photographic Tableaus, group show, Spring Projects, London
Cold stark vision, group show, Artform, New York
2013 'Lange Nacht der Museen,' Kunst & Design Galerie, Heidelberg
Crumpled Paper, Drawing a Tulip, Folding a Painting Dance, Sadlers Wells Lilian Baylis projection
It started with a dot, Critical Path performance
2012 Varying Object, Artspace, 6 month Residency Oct 2012- March 2013
Double vision, Spring Projects, London
2011 Fraser Studios Visual Arts Residency, Sydney, June-August 2011
Fraser Gallery Exhibition
Study for a uniform, BayArt, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, UK Performance
2010 Primary Situations Framed, Bunkier Sztuki, The Bunker of Arts,
Krakow, Poland
Primary Situations Framed, White Columns Gallery, New York, East To...