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Julie Ryder
Julie Ryder is a Canberra-based textile designer who has gained national and international recognition for her work. She has been a practising textile artist, designer and educator for over 20 years. She has originally been trained in science and Julie retrained as a textile designer at Melbourne Institute of textiles, graduating in 1990. She started her own design studio focusing on designing and hand printing fabrics for home-wares, fashion and interiors. In 1995 she developed a hybrid practice that combined her knowledge of science with her love of textiles. In 1999 she relocated to Canberra and has maintained an active professional studio practice, exhibiting her work regularly both nationally and internationally. Julie has taught in tertiary institutions and community organisations for over 20 years and completed a Master of Arts (visual Arts) degree at the Australian National University, School of Art in 2004. She has been the recipient of many awards, grants and commissions and her work is represented in numerous public and private collections.

Exhibitions Natural Wonders 29 Nov 2013- 6 Jan 2014 Narek Galleries, Tanja NSW A mixed-media exhibition exploring the unseen beauty of Canberra through the use of natural materials such as pollens, ash earth and plant dyes collected from specific sites in the Canberra region. These materials are used in a variety of techniques on paper and textiles to build up a profile of our territory. Enlighten Festival 2-10 March 2013 Canberra Julie Ryder’s digital images were selected to illuminate Canberra’s Questacon and Natural Library of Australia building fascades in conjunction with The Electric Canvas. Companion Planting Julie Ryder’s solo exhibition, Companion Planting, is inspired by a 2009 Hill End Residency in Murray’s Cottage, the former home of Donald Friend and Donald Murray. The complex relationship between the gregarious well-known artist, (Friend) and the reclusive, introverted gardener (Murray) is explored through watercolours, textiles and objects that are sources directly from the cottage gardener (Murray) is explored through watercolours, textiles and objects that are sourced directly from the cottage garden. 18 Feb-18 April 2011 Jean Bellette Gallery, Hill End NSW. 28 Sept-9 Oct 2011 Barometer Gallery, Paddington NSW. 17 Nov-17 Dec 2011 Craft ACT: craft and design centre, ACT. 4 May- 17 June 2012 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery NSW. Generate This mixed-media exhibition by Canberra artist, Julie Ryder, explores the life and theories of the 19th century naturalist, Charles Darwin. Drawing inspiration from Darwin’s five-year voyage in The Beagle, Ryder’s exhibition investigates the impact that the exotic journey had on his ideas of social and natural history. Ryder’s works on textiles, glass and tapa cloth are highly decorative, referencing 18th and 19th century fascination with scientific exploration and the appropriation of the ‘exotic other’, as well as the controversy surrounding Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’. 2 Dec 2008-26 March 2009 ANBG, Canberra 28 March – 9 May 2010 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW. in repeat: A retrospective exhibition of hand printed, hand painted, fermented, stitched, embellished and digitally produced textiles over a 15 year period. selected textiles 1992-2007 2 Aug-7 Sept 2008 Cowra Regional Art Gallery. Transgenesis In this body of work Ryder focuses on the controversial debates about genetically moderfied organisms (in particular the plants and products that are finding their way into our supermarkets) and investigates the socio-political and economic forces behind them. Our fears about the genetic manipulation of nature and the reverberating consequences it will impose on all levels of life as we know it, are highlighted through Ryder’s digital creations. By fusing highly magnified images of grains and pollen created by scanning electron microscopy together with those from other species, Ryder creates her own cloned species that seem fantastic but could in fact be futuristic phylogenies. 12 April- 12 May 2007 Craft Victoria. 21 Jan- 28 Feb 2010 Barometer Gallery, Paddington NSW. B{iota} : textiles A series of botanically dyed silk textiles exploring the possibilities offered by environmentally sound surface design processes. Images were developed during Masters Research at ANU using both light and SEM microscopy. Surface design techniques of dye printing, dye sublimination, monoprinting, heat sensitive inks and stitching turn these fabrics into ethereal complex cloths. B{iota} explores the roles of science and art through the use of observation, experimentation, collection, assembly and evaluation. 6 July – 27 July 2003 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW. Territory Territory draws inspiration from the Australian landscape, reflecting both aerial and subterranean views of cultivated fields, waterholes and paddocks as well as geological strata and aboriginal middens. Stitching transforms the surface of cloth so that, like the richness of the soil as well as the destruction caused by salinity. 7 March – 18 April 2002 Planet, Surrey Hills NSW. D – Composition d-composition is a philosophical and visual exploration of Ryder’s interest in the metaphysical, practical and allegorical aspects of alchemy. The work explores the relationship between the life and death cycle of organic matter and the transformational stages in ancient alchemy. Ryder uses her knowledge of microbiology and chemistry in a process she calls ‘nigredo’ to permanently stained fabrics, which are then pierced and stitched to form large ethereal wallhangings. 3 June – 3 July 1999 Craft Victoria 5 Aug – 5 Sept 1999 Craft ACT