Artist Julie Annis in conversation

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Join us for a Q&A with artist Julie Annis at CCA Galleries International . CCAI are delighted to welcome Julie Annis to Jersey who will be joined by CCAI's Laura Hudson to talk about her work and to offer audiences a glimpse into her material practice. Julie Annis is currently exhibiting a selection of 5 works in the Shifting Sands Exhibition : Painters from the Turps Banana painting school. Annis constructs her ground - the canvases she works on are pieced together, stitched, folded, and layered; constructed sometimes roughly and at other times with such delicacy all from found fabrics that carry with them a history of human use. These textile surfaces might be fragile or brutal; each one holds embedded histories much like the strata that lie below the lines and forms of the landscapes she depicts on them. This promises to be a fascinating talk with an artist whose materials and images meld into one. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to gain insights into the artistic process and explore methods of contemporary painting. See you there! JULIE ANNIS holds a BA in fine art, painting and drawing from Edinburgh College of Art and is currently on the Turps Hastings painting programme. The landscape of Sussex downland is at the core of Annis’ work being a place of childhood memories and her current home. The gentle hills provide a linear structure to her paintings as well as the plough lines, tracks and field boundaries and the strata and layers of chalk. Below one’s feet, one thinks of the countless barrows encased in burial mounds and the fossils and treasures sandwiched between the unseen layers of soil. Annis incorporates domestic linen into the painting surface, which is sewn together to create the desired composition. It’s important for her that there is a human presence within the work and a domestic framing of the landscape speaking of the longing of the natural world through an interior window. The linen sourced is worn down and smooth, eroded by skin and time, sometimes aged with stains, snags and tears or fades from sun and multiple washes. https://www.julieannis.co.uk/ LAURA HUDSON is a writer, curator and artist with a professional background in arts development and new media production. An arts professional since 1990, Laura is currently the development manager at CCA Galleries International, Jersey. Previously she was curator and producer for ArtHouse Jersey, Project Manager at Arts Council England, Marketing and Development Manager for Cinenova Film Distribution London and Prorammer at the London Filmmakers Co-op Cinema (Lux). Laura has directed large-scale festivals, exhibitions, conferences as well as public education programmes across the UK including HerTake Film Festival at Glasgow Film Theatre, Handbags & Hardware at the ICA London, Women on the Verge…of Technology at London Filmmakers Co-op as well as a trilogy of film festivals celebrating Super 8 film.

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