Julie Bennett

Biography

Julie Bennett is a portrait painter living and working in London.

Bennett is a long term member of South London Women Artists. She was a prize winner at Strata, London and a finalist at DegreeArt’s ‘Signature Art Awards’. Her works are held in a number of private collections in the UK and internationally.

Education

2011 Painting BA (Hons) (2.1) Camberwell College Of Arts, London
2007 Fine Art BTEC HNC (Distinction) Kensington & Chelsea College, London
1997 Graphic Design BA (Hons) (2.1) Camberwell College Of Art, London
1994 Foundation (Distinction) Camberwell College Of Art, London
 

Awards and commissions

2022 Runner-up: People’s Choice Vote, Brixton Blog & Bugle Summer Art Show, Brixton Library, London
2018 Commission: Trashouse Films
2014 Commission: ActionAid at the Global Summit, End Sexual Violence in Conflict
2011 Finalist: The Signature Art Awards 2011
2010 Prizewinner: Strata London
2010 First prize: Oscar Wilde’s Arrest Tribute
2008 Shortlisted: Brenda Landon Pye Portrait Award
2007 Shortlisted: The National Open Art Competition

Residencies

2021 #banksidearticons Residency, Bankside Hotel, London. Contemporary Collective Artist in Residence creating a series of portrait paintings inspired by art icons
2013 Repre Residency DegreeArt Gallery, Vyner St, London. Created a series of paintings inspired by east London hipsters to explore the themes of identity and representation
  

Publications

2024 Newbury Today, Who would you paint? Exhibition of heroes at Arlington Arts Centre, (Jan)
2023 Reflections in Rhyme, Kevin O’Dowd, New Haven Publishing (Mar)
2022 Art Seen, The Curator’s Salon, Myth: 3 paged article and back cover (May)
2022 OX Magazine, Myth, What's On (Apr)
2022 The Oxford Magazine, Myth, What's On (Apr)
2022 Muddy Stilettos, Myth, What's On - Review (May)
2022 Darling Magazine, I Am Woman, How Women’s Organisations are Celebrating International Women’s Day (Feb)
2020 Portraits for NHS Heroes, Tom Croft, Bloomsbury Publishing (Nov)
2020 Maidenhead Advertiser, Cookham and Maidenhead Arts Trail (16 Sep)
2020 British Medical Journal: Mary Black: Covid-19 heroes (25 Aug)
2020 Maidenhead Advertiser, Portraits for NHS Heroes on display for CAMAT (19 Aug)
2020 Curatorspace Portraits for NHS Heroes (13 Aug)
2020 Google Arts and Culture Portraits for NHS Heroes
2020 Maidenhead Advertiser, Maidenhead art for NHS Heroes on display (4 Jun)
2020 The Rebel Magazine, John Lennon Is Not Dead exhibition (14 Jan)
2019 Classic Rock Magazine, Music Makers (May)
2019 Hackney Gazette, Music Makers (25 April)
2018 Dulwich OnView, Strong and Stable (13 Nov)
2018 Folkestone Art Society, 4 paged interview (Apr)
2018 The Dulwich Diverter, Mum Before Me (Mar/Apr) pages 14-15 
2018 Around Dulwich, Mother’s Day Portrait Competition (18 Feb)
2016 The Dulwich Diverter, Dulwich Open House (May/June)
2015 The Rebel Magazine, The A Side B Side Gallery (9 Sep)
2015 The Rebel Magazine, Art Pop exhibition and album launch (18 Jun)
2015 Dulwich OnView, Mother's Day judging (12 Mar)
2014 Dulwich OnView, Art with a Purpose (5 Dec)
2013 The Rebel Magazine, Harry Pye’s South London Salon (28 Sep)
2013 FAD, GO SEE: The Repre Takeover @DegreeArt (22 Aug)
2013 Londonist, An Artist Collective Takes Over Degree Art (6 Aug)
2013 Dulwich & South London Press, Facing up to Help a Country’s Street Kids (15 Feb)
2012 Living South, Mum’s pretty as a picture (Mar)
2011 Artfridge, London: Camberwell Undergraduate Degree Show
2011 Oremus Westminster Cathedral Magazine, Born To Be Famous (Jul/Aug)
2011 TNT Magazine, Instant Art Buff (Jul)
2011 Stylist, A Knitted Blue Tit... (Jun)
2011 Guardian.co.uk, It’s Summer and so it’s Showtime (Jun)
2010/11 Cadogan News, Oscar Wilde (Winter)
2010 The Sun, Under the Page 3 Hammer (15 Dec)
2010 The Rebel Magazine, Art Auction for Break Through charity (14 Dec)
2010 Londonist, 400 Women (12 Nov)
2010 East London Lines, ‘400 Women’ exhibition opens in Shoreditch (12 Nov)
2010 Less Common|More Sense, Johnny (Sep)
2010 Travel Trade Gazette, Remembering Oscar Wilde on anniversary of his arrest (Apr)
2010 Living South, Editor’s Choice (Mar)
2010 Arts London News, Painting a Great Future (12 Feb)
2009 Little London Observationist, Interview (22 Nov)
2009 FAD: FIFTHYEARS - Five Years Celebration, Sartorial Contemporary (30 Sep)
2009 Southwark Weekender, Celebrating Women (Mar)
2009 Dulwich OnView, South London Women Artists (20 Mar)
2009 South London Women Artists, Interview (Mar)
2008 Evening Standard, My Peckham Street Cred is Over (17 Jul)
2008 Dulwich OnView, Up Close and Personal exhibition (7 Jul)
2008 Dulwich OnView, William Angel: New Gallery in East Dulwich (18 Apr)
2008 The Independent, Vinyl countdown: 2007 was a vintage year for album cover art (14 Jan)
2007 The Rebel Magazine, Social Class (Dec)
2007 Evening Standard, Join the £100 Club (24 Aug)
2007 The Sunday Times, Single Combat (12 Aug)
2007 Artists and Illustrators Magazine, STUart (Apr)
2006 The Independent, Saatchi’s New Stars (30 Nov)

Talks

2024 Stations of the Cross, The Benefice of The Cookhams, Causeway, Pound End, Berkshire (29 Mar)
2024 Artist Talk to Newbury College Students, Arlington Arts Centre (22 Jan)
2022 In Conversation with Tabish Khan, The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford (23 Apr)
2021 In Conversation with Gita Joshi, Bankside Hotel/Contemporary Collective, London (13 Jul)
2021 Artist Salon 2, Bankside Hotel/Contemporary Collective, London (13 Jul)
2021 Artist Salon 1, Bankside Hotel/Contemporary Collective, London (30 Jun)
2019 Artist Talk and Workshop: Self-Portrait, St Bartholomew’s Primary School, London (26 Apr)
2017 Artist Talk: Portrait 17, Degree Art, London (6 Jul)
2015 Being an artist, SPACE studios, London (teenagers) (Nov)
2013 Panel Discussion with Repre Artists, DegreeArt Gallery, Vyner St, London (Aug)
2009 Where Are All The Women In Art? Goldsmiths College (Dec)
2007 Inspiration, Southbank International School (Jun)

Film and TV

2021 Channel 4, Grayson's Art Club Series 2, Episode 1 ‘Dad's Children’ (26 Feb)
2020 ITV News ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ Book (11 Nov)
2014 Thomson Reuters Foundation, Vox-pop at End Sexual Violence in Conflict (Jun)
2010 BBC Bitesize, 6 short films on painting : Preparing a surface | Brushes | Colour palette | Colour mixing | Mixing skin tone | Painting a portrait (May)

Workshops

2022 Folkestone Art Society - 3-hour masterclass in portrait oil painting (TBC)
2019 Enrichment Art Workshop, St Bartholomew's Primary School, London (5 -10 yrs) (Apr)
2013 Doopodoopo Gallery -  A six week course ‘Introduction to oil painting’ (Jun)
2013 DegreeArt Gallery, as part of the Repre residency -  A two hour lesson ‘Introduction to oil painting' (Aug)

Internships and assisting

2011 Cartoon Museum, London - classroom assistant (Apr)
2010 Hew Locke - artist assistant installing exhibition 'The Nameless’ at Hales Gallery, London (Aug)

Membership

2021-2010 South London Women Artists
 

Judging

2020-2012 Rigby & Mac, Mother's day portrait competition (Mar)