CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Julie Davidson

Julie Davidson's beautiful still life paintings are an investigation of pictorial tradition and the relationship between interior and exterior on a two dimensional surface.

'Still life invites us to meditate on beauty, morality and truth. In my work I took to the techniques of the old masters, using the art of the past to inform the present practice. I also use digital photography, a tool of the present, to arrest time and capture it as a precise moment. I use dramatic light to capture the essence of the moment, whether it be the highlighting of a seemingly insignificant object, or the capture of a fleeting gaze or gesture.’ Julie Davidson

Davidson was a finalist in the Eutick Still Life Award, runner up in the Warwick Regional Gallery Art Prize and finalist in the Blake Prize for Religious Art and the Mandoorla Art Prize, winning the People’s Choice award for the latter. She has produced a number of commissioned portraits and works are represented in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.