/ 2025 / Fine Art / Still Life

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Julie Derbyshire, United Kingdom
• Website
  http://www.juliederbyshire.com
• Instagram
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Made during my recent artist residency in remote coastal Newfoundland, I shot these simple tableaux subject to the vagaries of natural light. The series explores the layering of history of a place, first as a school with shelves bulging with old thumbed books and more recently as a temporary home to the many artists who inhabited the space before me. The studio resonated with the traces of the people I would never meet (dusty books, paint on pots, sea shells collected by the coast nearby) and told a story of past and present. I too left behind my own objects for the next artist to find.

My practice is informed by the materiality and representation of the landscape and still life objects. Where we encounter shape and form, I see also fragility and transience. Using photography as both medium and illusion, I engage in making and disrupting the boundaries of the traditional image to explore the contingencies of existence. By introducing materials, processes and dimensionality, I create work that plays with object and photographic trace.

BA Photography (1st Class), University of Westminster (2015)
MA Photography (Distinction), London College of Communication (2017)

Awards 2017 Photofusion Prize
2016, 2018 Tokyo International Foto Awards, Honourable Mentions
2016 Moscow International Foto Awards, Honourable Mention
2016 Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee
2016 La Grande Photo International Photography Awards, Finalist
2016 Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Photographic Art, Finalist
2015 Travers Smith Art Awards, Finalist
2014, 2016 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Honourable Mentions