Julie Heaton

Julie is an RCA graduate living and working in Bristol. With a drawing practice grounded in free machine embroidery, Julie uses art to navigate traumatic loss.

With an intimacy of thought, Julie stitches obsessively, embodying in thread words that can be hard to say.

Loss through suicide has an unimaginable impact on being. Enduring the complicated, layered effects that overwhelming sadness has on the body and mind, Julie was compelled to create.

Without limitation and with a need to break the silence, Julie unravelled her own story with thread.