“Nothing has the ability to make my mind and body stop like the landscape.” Jules Bulleid
West Australian Jules Bulleid will be one of the incredible artists in Tyger’s upcoming group show, Living in Another World.
Tyger is thrilled to welcome the outstanding West Australian artist Jules Bulleid to the gallery for our upcoming abstract landscapes show, Living in Another World.
The show brings together around 40 artists from all over the country to show us the world we know and love through an abstracted lens.
Register now for our opening celebrations of Living in Another World - Saturday 20 April, 2-4pm.
Ahead of the show, Jules tells us about travelling alone in the outback, taking in the light, sounds, and senses of a location, and how nothing can pause time like standing in a landscape.
How would you describe your work?
“My work is an amalgam of all of my senses from experiencing a landscape. It seeks to celebrate the landscape and put forward a distant memory of place. My work sometimes takes on an other-worldly view of the country, as I push away from representational painting and encourage this intuitive vision to come forward.”
“My work is often a detailed portrayal of place, but that place has come from my memory bank or imagination. The location may not even exist anywhere except via my intuition.”
“I allow my compositions to come to me while sketching with charcoal directly onto a board or canvas, with very little editing. My use of colour again is drawn from intuition, and often is pushed to the boundaries of the imagination rather than being representational.”
Where and how do you create your work?
“My outback travels and history with the bush inform my work. I travel alone in my ute which is fully equipped to take me off the tourist route and be self-sufficient for weeks.”
“When exploring new country I tend to take a lot of photographs and do some sketching and small studies, but I mostly prefer to be fully present in the landscape and observe. Taking in the light, the smells, the sounds, all the senses of a location. I like to think of it as an osmosis of the experience I have in that place, at that time.”
“When I am back in my studio, I let whatever is waiting to come out unfurl. I don't work from photos but create in an intuitive way. While I may look through my photos of a location to revisit my experience there, the work then just flows out of me and onto the surface. Mountain ranges form in shapes not seen before but provide a sense of place.”
What inspires you?
“The landscape. Nothing has the ability to make my mind and body stop like the landscape. The way that colours sit on a place, the way that light leads you visually across a place and the way that a place can make you feel like a blip of time in front of it - never ceases to engage me.”
What do you hope people feel when they see your work?
“I hope that people feel a sense of recognition when viewing my work. That the image connects them to a memory of place of their own. Helps them feel that love and longing of a place deep within their psyche.”
Living in Another World runs from 19-28 April at Tyger Gallery in Yass. The online catalogue for the show will go out to subscribers in the week before opening. Sign up here to make sure you don’t miss out.
