Julia Holderness

In her solo exhibition at Sanderson Contemporary, Julia Holderness refers to the garden, landscape and still life across a range of mediums and forms. Exhibiting in the company of her longtime art historical conduit Florence Weir, there is also research into Bloomsbury group painter and gardener Vanessa Bell and Welsh...

As a gathering point in the South of France in the 1930s, Villa Margaux functioned for Florence Weir and others as an artistic residence for social occasions, holidays and respite. Later in the 1950s, Weir produced a range of tableware named Margaux which was possibly named after the villa. Surrounded...

Marking her first exhibition with Sanderson after several years of dedicated research Schemes for Vibrant Living with Florence Weir develops from Julia Holderness' recent final PhD exhibition at Auckland University of Technology. In privileging design, decorative and domestic categories, Holderness’ installation practice traces alternative histories of modernism in Aotearoa, in...

Julia Holderness has explored her own textile making alongside that of Canterbury artist and teacher Florence Akins (1906 – 2012). Re-working a range of archive materials from the Macmillan Brown Library & Heritage Collections that relate to Akins and her teaching of textiles at the Canterbury College School of Art,...

The Bauhaus continues as a major design influence for contemporary practitioners. Julia Holderness’s installations and artworks draw upon art and design histories and archives – both local and international, real and imagined. A collection of Bauhaus publications that were purchased from an ex-library sale forms a personal archive of art...

Each year, the five Auckland Art schools are asked to nominate their top Honours and Masters students for the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Award, a non-acquisitional monetary award given to help launch emerging artists into successful careers in the arts. The winning artist will also be invited to mount a...