Juliet Lea

Juliet Lea has been making art for more than 35 years, here and other places.

She has a preference for large scale installation where many ideas can be investigated. Many of her works explore ideology as pathology – the narratives that emerge, and the relation between pathology and empire.

She likes to use eggshells, light globes, books, food, and all sorts of found objects, especially organic materials that change and decay and resist. She likes to play with the contradictions, connections and poetry that reside within things.
Objects are her alphabet.

FEATURED WORK

2021

Lea has created a number of illuminated egg shell
encrustations emerging from found objects. The objects are old ceramic vases, a soup tureen, glass
shapes, and an old brass trophy (they are all vessels of
some sort). The light filters out through the cracked
eggshells. Inspired by the events of the last 2 years,
remembering all the people who have lost their lives
to Covid-19, and all the friends no longer here.