Julie Caves
Julie Caves is a Margate and London based artist. She has a BFA from the University of Texas, graduated with an MA from Camberwell College of Art, completed an Erasmus term in Valencia, Spain, completed the 2-year Turps Studio Painting Programme in 2019, and the fellowship programme at The Margate School in 2023. She has a certificate in Independent Curating from Central St Martins.
She was shortlisted for two prizes in 2019: The Delphian Prize and the Exceptional Award. Julie recently curated two painting exhibitions in London: ‘Waving in the Distance’, at Terrace Gallery in 2020 and ‘A Break in the Clouds’ at Winns Gallery in 2021 and three exhibitions at the Lido Stores gallery in 2022, 2023, and 2024. She has had three recent solo shows: ‘Lost in the Woods’ at The Stone Space gallery in London in 2021 and ‘Shimmy’ at The Lido Stores in Margate in 2022 and ‘Yummy Yummy Yummy’ in 2024 at Cliff’s in Margate. Julie has exhibited in many group exhibitions in London and Margate and in ‘A Generous Space’ at Hastings Contemporary in 2022.
Julie Caves is a painter interested in sunlit spaces and still life objects. She often focuses just on the colour and light separated from the subject, letting the painting develop intuitively, and those works are usually read as abstract paintings. She has recently returned to also making ceramic sculpture.
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