Yulia is an artist and designer, born in Austria (1967), since 2022 she lives and works in Portugal. After a 3 year college in Textile Design (Vienna), she moved to London to finish a 1 year college in Prop design and Making (The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama)and worked on many small and bigger productions. As an award-winning garden designer (2001 – 2010), she developed also conceptuel gardens and worked together with different artists: "A singing portable garden" (IT), Composition Andres Bossart (soundscape artist, CH).
"Silkfelt" (2012 till 2017) - Yulia developed textile art objects and installations mainly from felt or in combination with silk ("Woodland Boudoir", "Mermaid Project"), and experimented with wool, silk and light ( "Luminaries"), exhibited, among others in the Gallery space at the Knitting and Stitching show London, Dublin, Harrogate. More over she was Guest teacher at different Festivals (for example KreaTov Festival Gotland, Sweden).
The brilliant feedback on her studio exhibition “Crown, Crone and Throne” (multi-part room installation), 2017 Royal College of art (Transition from crafty to art/ Summer School), prompted her to pursue more experimental forms of expression.
She opened a gallery in Utah and, inspired by the partly mountainous and inhospitable desert landscape, she realized site-specific art interventions (2018 – 2021).
In her artistic research projects, she traces craft techniques, uses existing materials, and connects them with forgotten stories from the region. Large-scale, multi-part installations and performances in which the artist becomes part of the landscape, part of her project. In the tension between visibility and invisibility as a human being, as a woman:
"Solistice Godess", "Ritual for a Packrat", "Handmades no more", "Hanging Sculpture".
