Julija Pustovrh is a Slovenian born artist now living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Her background is in Landscape Architecture with emphasis on model-making and 3D presentations. Since her graduation in 2014 she has been working on various collaborations and individual projects spanning from urban design, woodwork, printmaking, stained glass art and more recently focusing on ceramics. Julija has always drawn inspiration from nature. Her work explores the fine line between real and imaginary plant worlds, looking at forms, structures and patterns in micro and macro scales, transformations in time and space as well as giving her pieces some kind of function and use. Currently Julija is working on an ongoing project exploring the connection between Scottish landscapes and coastal features. She has been collecting sand from remote coasts of Scotland and is incorporating the sands in her new body of work - SANDSCAPES 2019/20. Since August 2017 she is a member at the Edinburgh Ceramics Workshop In August 2019 she became the ceramics studio technician at ECW and helped develop the new teaching studio at the time of the expansion of the ECW in November 2019. Julija is currently fundraising to fund her first solo exhibition, as well as expanding into her own studio. You can support her on Patreon. |
CV
EDUCATION AND WORK
Technician at Edinburgh Ceramics Workshop (2019-present)
Assistant technician at Edinburgh Ceramics Workshop (2018)
SQA Ceramics, Edinburgh Design School (2018)
MSc Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art (2011-2014)
BA Landscape Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2009-2011)
EXHIBITIONS
Scottish Art Club (Online) (June 2020)
Form19 - Ceramics Exhibition, Whitestuff, George Street, Edinburgh (13th-22nd Dec 2019)
Terra Forma - Sculpture, Ceramics & Painting Exhibition, Edinburgh Palette (17th-30th Nov 2018)
The Art Friends of St Columba's Hospice 32nd Annual Art Exhibition, Edinburgh (Oct 2018)
Multiples, Lennon Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh (Oct 2018)
Space to Grow, Scottish Pottery Association, Barn Gallery, Bield at Blackruthven, Perth (Apr 2018)
Positively Blue, Lennon Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh (Feb 2018)
Hecla Gallery, Cockenzie House, Edinburgh (Sept Oct Nov 2017)
FAIRS & MARKETS
Potfest 2020 (25th-27th Sep 2020)
Out of the Blue Art Market, Edinburgh (14th Dec 2019)
3D2D Art Fair, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (7th-8th Dec 2019)
University of Edinburgh Christmas Craft Fair (6th Dec 2019)
V&A Dundee, Art Market (24th Nov 2019)
Out of the Blue Art Market, Edinburgh (15th June 2019)
West End Fair - 3D2D, Princess Street, Edinburgh (3rd-24th Aug 2019)
3D2D Art Fair, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (8th-9th Dec 2018)
Makers' Fair, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret's House (8th Dec 2018)
University of Edinburgh Christmas Craft Fair (7th Dec 2018)
Out of the Blue Art Market, Edinburgh (1st Dec 2018)
West End Fair - 3D2D, Princess Street, Edinburgh (4th-19th Aug 2018)
Makers' Fair, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret's House (Dec 2107)
University of Edinburgh Christmas Craft Fair (Dec 2017)
WORKSHOPS
April / May 2018
COMMUNICATING SCOTTISH CULINARY IDENTITY THROUGH ART
Pottery workshop for Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
STOCKISTS
Lifestory, Edinburgh
Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh
OR Shop, Skye
Elk & Wolf, Edinburgh
Raf Shop, Edinburgh
Art & Vintage Coffee Shop, Edinburgh
Century General Store, Edinburgh
The Stick Factory Gallery, Edinburgh
PRESS
Independent Online (Dec 2017)
The Counsellors Cafe (Dec 2017)
InsideKent (Jul 2017)
InsideSussex (Jul 2017)
Apartment Therapy (Mar 2017)
Birds & Becycles (Dec 2016)
BuzzFeed (Jun 2016)
COLLABORATIONS
AKU Ceramics
Teenie Tings Terrariums
Mellow Moose Station
Henrietta MacPhee
Emporium Julium
est. 2014
est. 2014
Julija Pustovrh
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Matjaz Vidmar
Co-Founder & Operations Director
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Matjaz Vidmar
Co-Founder & Operations Director