Julie Heaton

Open Textile Arts

Julie Heaton – UK

Social Media: @julieheatonartist
Mentor: Diana Springall

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.

Title of Piece:
It had to be so

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.

Julie Heaton Concept, research and development

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