Edinburgh Art Festival: CHILD - Julie Roberts
Julie Roberts’ painting plays upon attraction and repulsion, utilising exquisitely painted surfaces and colour schemes against an un?inching subject matter, which has previously included crime scenes and medical apparatus. This approach renders objects and environments uncanny, forcing the viewer to re-evaluate their relationship to certain situations and question the means by which these situations are represented. For this exhibition Roberts will show new paintings on the subject of the ‘child’ including: religious iconography, domestic environments and young girls’ induction into domestic labour, evacuees, refugees, school rooms and familial portraiture. With these themes Roberts extends her exploration of gender, authority and visual interpretation. Part of the 2010 EAF.