February 2008: The Saatchi Online Gallery will be representing three of Julie Bennett’s paintings ‘Karie', ‘Jo-Lan’ and 'Easton' (above) at FORM, a London Art Fair. The Saatchi Online Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of 20 London-based artists who have been chosen from Saatchi Online magazine's Critic's Choice.
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FORM - 28 February - 2 March 2008 at Olympia National Hall, Hammersmith Rd, London W14 8UX.
February 2008: Julie Bennett has been interviewed by Dulwich OnView who are The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery's blog site. To read the interview visit Dulwich OnView website
January 2008: Julie Bennett's painting 'Linda' (above) is part of the group show 'Notting Heaven' at Sartorial Contemporary Art Gallery until January 19th 2008.
December 2007: Julie Bennett's sleeve for Thurston Revival 'Somewhere There's an Angel' won 5th place in the competition for BEST ART VINYL of 2007! Thank you for voting!
August 2007: I was commissioned to produce the painting above for the sleeve of Thurston Revival debut single 'Somewhere There’s an Angel' which is being sold at 100 UK Pounds per copy making it the worlds most expensive debut single ever. There's articles in The Sunday Times and London's The Evening Standard
November 2006: I was labeled one of Saatchi's new stars by The Independent
I have worked professionally in graphic design for 10 years mainly in magazines, NME, Q, Classic Rock. I graduated in Graphic Design from Camberwell College Of Art, London, UK in 1997. I completed an 8 week summer school in painting at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK in 2006 and a HNC BTEC in Fine Art at Kensington and Chelsea College, London, UK in 2007. I am now studying at Chelsea College of Art and Design until 2011.
I enjoy magazine design because the content is person dominated. I am fascinated by people’s faces, which is reflected in my figurative painting style.
I work with both oil and acrylic, with a limited palette of just 8 colours. I enjoy paint handling and paint mixing. My paintings are bold, expressive, with a sense of drawing in them. They have been described as edgy with a self-reflecting energy. I am not afraid of mark marking and like the luminosity of wiping paint away and building up a new layers of paint. I allow the paint to drip creating a loose feel in a controlled way 'controlled expressiveness'.
I am influenced by other artists such as Michael Andrews, Lucian Freud,
Marlene Dumas, Jenny Saville and Euan Uglow.
I am inspired by religious iconography, popular culture, graffiti and tattoos.
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This week is a momentous week for Trail. We have released a track from our upcoming album "To The Rest of The World" called "Prism". It is now available via iTunes, Amazon and via SMS in the UK. Text "Track 3852" to 83262 and a reply will tell you how to download to your computer. We are obviously working hard to get up as high as possible in the charts so any help will be very much appreciated!
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
Hey how are you. Hope you are well. I was wondering if you would like to have a free album? You can get it at http://www.megaupload.com/?f=3NNQTYF1 I really hope you enjoy it Speak soon
So, Wednesday is the new Sunday. Which makes Saturday the new Tuesday? And, according to my calculations…That makes Monday the new Friday!!!! Which is just as well, as we’re playing at Cargo on Monday 18th May!! Come down!!!
Hey its Sem thought I would let you know that we have decided to give our entire album away for free on download. We wanted to share the music with as many people as possible. You can get it here:
Hey thanks for accepting our request, we hope you like our music, would be great to meet you one day on a Gwydion show! Our merchandise is available for sale, to order send mail to: shop@gwydion.org or do it in our myspace.
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