JULIA HEURLING

Born
1973
Nationality
Swedish
Country
Sweden
City
HÄGERSTEN

My practice departs from the idea of visual thinking as thinking about image through image. I use of repetition as method to think. I consider pattern design a cognitive process, based on two hypotheses: 1) Repetition is a tool for abstraction, as it changes perspective from the particular to the general. 2) Abstraction in this context becomes a method to process information, i.e., to think (visually). 

I consider photography a method for analysis, in the sense that it can de-construct a visual experience into separate constituents. This reflects on both what is observed and how it is observed, the, which also enable a reflection on my own artistic process.

My work operates within and in-between areas of pattern and photography, with focus on multiple photographic structures like typology, sequence, and pattern compositions. Multiple photographic compositions serves to synthesize a photographic material in search for narrative and representation beyond content of separate images.

'Car marks'. Typology of marks in the snow where cars used to be parked.
Occupation
artist
Designer
Researcher
Address
Cedergrensvägen 48
126 36 Hägersten
SWEDEN
Interests
repetition
abstraction
photography
visual thinking
Languages
English
Swedish
Biography

Julia Heurling is a designer, artist, and researcher based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work explores visual thinking informed by repetition in the borderland between photography and pattern. She has presented her research at conferences in Cairo, Shanghai, Beijing, Plymouth, Athens, Porto, Helsinki and more. She has a Master of Arts with a Major in Textile Design from The Swedish School of Textiles in Borås, Sweden.  She has been engaged for public art commissions and has exhibited internationally. She has been shortlisted for Minnesota Center for Book Art Price in 2022, and for Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Price in 2024.

Education
2008 MA Textile Design, Swedish school of textiles, Borås, SWEDEN
2024 Doctor of Philosophy, Artistic research, Plymouth University, UK
Exhibitions
2023
'Look, See, This!'
Gallery Konstfack
Group
2022
Minnesota Center for Book Art Prize 2022
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Group
2018
Salong CFF
Center For Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
Group
2018
'Kjøllefjord Reflections'
Kjøllefjord Court House, Norway
Solo
2018
'Process'
Spegla Photography Festival, Norrköping, Sweden
Group
Prizes and Awards
2024 Shortlisted for Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize
2022 Semifinalist MCBA Book Art Prize
2018 Nida Art colony Doctoral Residency
2017 Arctic Culture Lab Artistic Residency