Biography
Julie Brixey-Williams (born, Essex, UK) is a sculptor, writer and performer holding a PhD (Fine Art P-a-R, University of Reading (2022) with a research practice that explores multi-disciplinary relationships with places. She was AA2A Associate, Buckinghamshire New University (2023-4) and has been a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2012. She exhibits in UK and internationally, including four summer shows at Royal Society of Sculptors and The Royal Academy. Past residencies include a Leverhulme-funded residency at the Association of Anaesthetists of GB & Ireland (London, 2004); The Observatory (Lymington, UK 2016); Cove Park Winter Opportunity (Scotland, 2018), Cill Rialaig (Ireland, 2022), Introductions and Break-ups - collaborative process with Mandeep Dillon, (London 2024) and the Royal Society of Sculptors award Awakenings at Wick (Somerset 2025). Selected screened or performed works include: Amplify, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ (2023); Essential Travel, Royal Academy of Scotland, (2021); Passing Between Folds, University of Chichester (2017); A Pocket Full of Seawater, performance on Lymington Marshes (2016); Step Feather Stitch, OPEN Ended, London (2012), and the dance-drawing commission Arabesque, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2002). She works extensively in collaboration as co-founder of collective point and place (2002-2018), and as a duo with performer, Libby Worth (since 2007) and latterly alongside ceramic sculptor, Sarah Christie MRSS. Her bookworks are held in several collections including: The Yale Center of British Art and the Tate Gallery Artists’ Publication Archive, and in 2007 won the Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award at the London Artists’ Book Fair.
www.juliebrixey-williams.co.uk @juliebrixeywilliams
I am a contemporary sculptor (& member of the Royal Society of Sculptors), performer and edge-dweller, making multi-disciplinary artworks that build a layered perspective of places and landscapes - a process that I term A Labour of Attentiveness. My resulting process of attentive listening, movement investigation, photography, playful intervention and assemblage aims to navigate our dynamic relationship with things and structures, via co-created works, as a form of visual choreography of spatial remains. These spatial remains are later developed and re-sited to become gallery works or re-installed into new sites (including artist bookworks) that contribute to new layered readings for the viewer.
Julie Brixey-Williams MRSS
www.juliebrixey-williams.co.uk