Julia Polonski is a British artist working in painting and drawing.  Combining an expressive handling of paint with an observational drawing practice, she references cloth, worn fabric, shroud imagery, and figurative sculpture to make work exploring the figure and space.

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In her large-scale charcoal and pencil drawings, cloth is looked at as a document that can hold the narrative of a body; a document that can be read as a map of physical occupation, human experience and personal history. These layered drawings depict disrupted patterning, stains and worn cloth that evidence the body’s presence.

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In these recent paintings figurative and abstract elements integrate to place subjects in visually ambiguous spaces, exploring physical, material, and psychological boundaries.