Julie Anne Shea

Conspiracy

I explore pareidolia using drawing, combining it with observational and experimental drawing and design.

Conspiracy

Bathe In Bright

14–24 November 2024 — Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery. An exhibition of collaged inks sharing a dreamed utopia, and the disruption of that vision by a recurring worming memory.

Bathe In Bright exhibition invitation — golden figures floating on yellow and magenta ink washes

Cracking Ice

January 4–15, 2023 — Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery. Traditional drawing, Dada techniques, sporadic accidents, collages and apophenia used to escape “creative freeze”.

Cracking Ice exhibition invitation — self portrait with golden roses

See What I Say?

January 4–15, 2023 — Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery. Pareidolia and apophenia: finding meaningful images in random ink stains, splashes and chaotic backgrounds.

See What I Say? exhibition poster — self portrait with sunflowers

Retreat: Becoming the Forest

July 8–19, 2020 — Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery. Watercolour and gouache artworks of the forest reflected in creek pools, ponds and bush track puddles; the landscapes anthropomorphise as the artist withdraws to merge with her forest home.

Retreat: Becoming the Forest exhibition invitation — mossy forest forms

Japanizi

Her artworks in this Japanizi exhibition are drawings based around recent travels in Japan.

Japanizi

Tipi Responses

"Tipi Responses" - an immersive installation of multi-dimensional artwork created by Julie Shea, Ed Duncan, Rachel McKiernan, Ainslie Ivin-Smith, Ed Duncan, Leanne Berelowitz, Lucinda Rose, and Simon Mark. using the theme ~ Tipi ~ exhibited at the Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery, Kinchela Street, Gladstone, NSW from June 19 to 29, 2014.

Tipi Responses

Earlier Work — Previous Website

My website made in 2013 as a container for various artworks — 2D, 3D and video work from earlier years.

Forest collage with tipi, shed and dam — artwork linking to Julie's previous website

Birdbrain

“Birdbrain” is an exhibition of multi-disciplinary artworks including images, impromptu performance, video and sound created, and in the process of creation, by Julie Shea and Leanne Berelowitz in collaboration as RaG RAG.

Birdbrain

Post Real

“The show is called post real because some of the artworks are “real” or tangible objects, and some have been made only to “post” onto web sites. The ones that are posted follow on from existing “in reality”, and are therefore “post real”. Some are both. This is a completely new way of working for me.

Post Real