Tag Archives: Julia deVille

North Sydney Art Prize finalists tackle the theme of sustainability

1 February 2019 | Art Almanac

The North Sydney Art Prize is a unique showcase of 115 works by local, regional and national artists from 2 to 17 March at the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in Waverton....

Julia deVille: Wholeness and the Implicit Order

29 August 2018 | Melissa Pesa

Julia deVille provides a contemporary take on the taxidermy art form as her jewel-encrusted, ethically sourced, stuffed animals debunk the glorification of the trophy-hunting culture....

Julia deVille: Phantasmagoria

28 August 2014 | Art Almanac

Melbourne-based artist Julia deVille is a jeweller, taxidermist and animal activist, whose work is informed by a fascination with ‘memento mori’ traditions of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian mourning jewellery....

Julia DeVille wins 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

28 October 2013 | Art Almanac

The 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize – Australia’s pre‐eminent national award for small sculpture – has been awarded to Melbourne‐based artist Julia DeVille for her work ‘Sorrow’, featuring a ruby‐encrusted taxidermy stillborn fawn laid out on a silver platter. DeVille was awarded the $10,000 prize at...

A glimpse of Sydney Contemporary ’13

21 September 2013 | Art Almanac

With a thriving art scene and a growing collector base, Australia’s new international art fair Sydney Contemporary showcases work by both emerging and established artists....

Julia deVille & Leslie Rice: For Days Unnumbered

29 July 2013 | Art Almanac

‘For Days Unnumbered’ sees Leslie Rice’s trademark black velvet paintings hanging next to Julia deVille’s contemporary memento mori. Her sculptures are created using taxidermy, precious and semi precious gems, metals and antique tableware....

Bush Oranges and Guinea Pig win Hobart Art Prize

9 October 2012 | Art Almanac

The 2012 City of Hobart Art Prize exhibition is a national survey of the best work in the media of Fibre and Paint by the most outstanding artists in Australia....

Julia deVille: Sarcophagus

2 July 2012 | Art Almanac

The latest body of work by Melbourne-based artist Julia deVille seeks to highlight the way our society eats and uses animals and why we find it acceptable to treat some animals in deplorable ways....