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Julie Caves

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About Me

Julie Caves paints, makes her artists' books and plans her projects out of her light-filled studio at the Chocolate Factory N16 in North East London. She began her art studies in California in 1989, studied art in Spain, received her BFA in Studio Art (Sculpture and Printmaking) in Texas, and her MA in Bookarts from Camberwell College of Arts in London. She was in her first juried painting show in 1990 and has participated in exhibitions in the US, Spain, Korea, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the UK. She has artists' books and prints in a number of public collections including the Tate Britain Gallery Special Collection.

My Interests

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:
2007 Colour Matters, Oxford House, London
2006 Theatre Foyer Exhibition, Pleasance Theatre, Islington, London
2006 New Works at the Coffee Corner café, Stoke Newington, London
2001 Me On Tuesday, Me On Wednesday, Me On Thursday…, The New Gallery, University of Texas.

Group Exhibitions:
2007 Bookmarks, Centre For Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK
2007 Bristol Artists’ Book Event, UK
2007 Public Pages, Plymouth, UK
2007 Wise Thoughts exhibition at Wood Green Library, London
2006 Marmite Prize, Residence Gallery, London
2006 Winter Salon, Hackney Museum, London
2006 The Peace Camp, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2006 Prelude, part of Inspired Art Fair, London
2006 Sefton Open, Atkinson Gallery, Merseyside, UK
2006 PrintROOM at Bureau Gallery, Salford/Manchester, UK
2006 Sitting Room, bookarts exhibit at Manchester Craft and Design Centre, UK
2005, 06 Open Studios, Chocolate Factory N16, London
2005 Mile of Art, Hackney, London
2005 Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2005 Meeting In The Middle, University College Northampton Gallery, UK
2005 Hibrida 2, Bradford, UK and Brno, Czech Republic
2004 Camberwell 5, MA Degree Exhibition, London
2004 Artivist, Peckham, London
2004 Seoul International Book Arts Fair, Seoul, Korea
2004 Living London, London College of Fashion
2004, 05, 06 The 7th, 8th, 9th Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, Halifax, UK
2004 Rhapsody, London College of Printing, London Institute
2003, 04, 05, 06 London Artists' Book Fair, ICA, London
2002 A Theme Unthemed Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas
2002 Sultry Post, Austin, Texas
2001 Exchanging Place, University of Texas
2001 Un Electron En Tu Ojo, Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain
2001 Video shorts show, Ca Revolta, Valencia, Spain
2001 Portes Obertes (international invitational show), Valencia, Spain
2000 Passing Through Walls, University of Texas
1999 Surface Tension, University of Texas

Selected Public Collections:
Tate Britain Special Collection
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collection
University College Northampton, UK
Yorkshire Craft Centre at Bradford College, UK
BookROOM Archives, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Camberwell College of Arts Special Collection
Permanent collection, University of Texas at Austin
Permanent collection, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

I'd like to meet:

“I paint because I am fascinated by colour, both visually and conceptually. I make artists’ books as art that you can hold and look at by yourself. I like to make art with the community and would like to do an intergenerational project.”

“Yet the deepest and truest secrets of colour effect are, I know, invisible even to the eye, and are beheld by the heart alone. The essential eludes conceptual formulation.” Johannes Itten, The Art of Colourtop: 0px;" border="0"

Opening Night Thursday 9 August, 7-9pmExhibition Continues: to Sunday 26 August Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street London SE11 5RH UKTube: Vauxhall/Oval Bus: 2, 36, 88, 133, 185, 436

My Blog

Winter Open Studios at the Chocolate Factory N16

You are invited to the Winter Open Studios at the Chocolate Factory N16 in Stoke Newington (Hackney).The Chocolate Factory N16 two Open Studio weekends (part of Hackney Hidden Art) are coming up in ju...
Posted by Julie Caves on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:15:00 PST

Cafe Gallery Projects Open Exhibition, 2007

Cafe Gallery Projects Open Exhibition, 2007Venue website: http://www.cafegalleryprojects.com/html/Exhibitions.htmlJuli e Caves has a small painting in the Cafe Gallery Projects Open Exhibition 2007.21s...
Posted by Julie Caves on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:07:00 PST

Bookmarks V exhibition

Small artists' bookworks in the form of bookmarks are now exhibiting as Bookmarks V. You can see mine on-line here: Bookmarks V Artists. There is also a world distribution schedule there. ...
Posted by Julie Caves on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:40:00 PST

Manchester Artists Book Fair 2007

I will have a table at the second annual Manchester Artist's Book Fairon Sept 29, 2007.I will have about 12 different books and some postcards on display....
Posted by Julie Caves on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:45:00 PST

Charity art auction

Here is the painting I just finished and sent to the Spectrum Autism charity art auction. It is from The Universe in a Drop of Water series. The title is Interior Landscape 26. It is acrylic on 60x60c...
Posted by Julie Caves on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:48:00 PST

Rich and Strange book is finished

I finally finished the painting and gilding for the Dreamers of Decadence book for the Rich and Strange altered books project. It should have arrived with them on Friday.Dreamers of Decadence is about...
Posted by Julie Caves on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:50:00 PST

The Twits in Shoreditch

Last chance to see the Twits in Shoreditch exhibition at Standpoint Gallery. There is one day left. The open evening was Thursday and the MP for Shoreditch who cut the ribbon pointed out that 22%...
Posted by Julie Caves on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:51:00 PST

Gasworks Exhibition

In addition to painting I also make text based work.  The poster in this show is an A2 version of a leaflet that I hand out in a long-running book arts performance work.Opening Night ...
Posted by Julie Caves on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST

2 more pictures on the site

I have uploaded 2 more pictures of paintings to my page.
Posted by Julie Caves on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:02:00 PST

Open Studios was great!

The Open Studios this weekend was the best I have ever had! So many lovely people with their wonderful feedback. Thanks to everyone who came and everyone who stopped to have a chat. I am so energise...
Posted by Julie Caves on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:57:00 PST