Statement.
Julie Lovett’s practice is cultivated through a self-conscious mix of her own social awkwardness and struggles she associates with identifying herself as a professional artist. Much of her influences derive from her rural upbringing, experiences and sense of place. These references function as starting points which often positions the practice within a frame of local language, expression and information, giving the practice a specific landscape and context for the work to realise itself.
She uses film, painting and performing as creative tools to respond to the world she perceives around her. Through the repetitive process of exploring and manipulating these mediums, the work physically and conceptually switches positions back and forth, consciously and unconsciously feeding and bouncing off their own actions and creations. This conflict or habitual actions within the practice makes the activity of steering the practice itself the subject that is being explored.
Her approach to art making functions on levels of carefully considered and logical planning combined with an awareness and intuitiveness to the changing nuances of her surrounding environments. The practice is also strongly steered by a conflicting rejection and acceptance to the changing trends of these environments.
The reoccurring relationships, patterns and themes that dominate the practice are the functionality of objects and images in different spaces. How and where the work can function inside and outside of the studio space combined with the position of the individual as both a participant and a viewer all play an integral role in the formation and contribution of narrative to the work.