Sunday 5 October 2014

Juliette Losq

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Juliette Losq first came about in 2005 when she won the Jerwood drawing prize. Since then she has gone on to release several exhibitions such as “Life of wood” in Seoul, back in 2009 and “Lucaria” At Theodore Art in New York in 2012. She’s even became a member of the Newhall Womens Art Collection and The Saatchi Collection.

hifructose.com said “It is all part of an illusion meant to preserve an almost forgotten past.”
Fas London said “Losq conjures her own unique landscapes where we feel at our most safe yet most vulnerable: stray too close to the edge and the forest may snatch you into its depths”

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I have also recently seen Losq's work at the John Moores Painting Prize 2014, Vinculum, although I didn't realise it was the same artist who had created the drawings above. Her painting is from a series depicting the overgrown exteriors of derelict buildings. She creates her works by first doing an etching and then overlaying it with watercolour paint. However, I feel that her drawings above hold more relevance to me, as it shows a more unique and unusual way for me to consider displaying my drawings within a space.