'In the series Tales from The Waiting Room there is an unfolding story of a liminal state that is both a personal story and a universal human experience. The works articulate a place of uncertainty, change and transition: being somewhere ‘in between’.......' Read more... Artist Statement |
"[The paintings] represent in-between, the slash as hyphen: or, but
sometimes and.
They are like line breaks in plays or poetry, the quick breath in, which forms lyrical or rhythmic spaces...shades of dreamy blue through to stormy winter blue-greys, the spectrum of British weather...." Read more... Beyond Fontana Studio 1.1, London Stephanie Moran |
'Tales from The
Waiting Room engages an audience by allowing them to re-examine the craft
of painting. The work is mathematical,
methodical and architectural in its composition and undertaking...' Read more...
Non-Fiction Our Space Gallery, London Christina Millare |
‘The flat
chromatic uninhabited landscapes of Julie
Fagan's work are both reminiscent of wide-open spaces and the confined monitor
of the digital world....’ Read more...
Occidental Dimension: From West to The East University of Brighton, Brighton Marek Tobolewski |
'Julie Fagan's digital prints portray bizarre dream like structural compositions. Read more...
Citizen, Dissent & disorder, Utility & Construction tactitleBOSCH, Cardiff Neil Jefferies |
'Julie Fagan’s painting of a house is at once crisp and clean in presentation,
but purposely flawed and wholly untenable… but, tellingly, they are makeshift, temporary, and sometimes completely uninhabitable… ' Read more... Fault Line: Art in the Age of Anxiety Nunnery Gallery, London Sarah Elson |
'In Julie Fagan’s work...these strange ‘model homes’ entice us to imagine those idyllic spaces outside of the big city. They tug at our yearnings for tranquillity and isolation. Read more... Breathe East Gallery, London Nathalie Palin |
'Julie Fagan invites us to question the private spaces we inhabit...the paintings present poignant and sometimes jarring perceptions of how we live.' Read more...
The Occupier The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon Pumphouse Gallery, London |