Julie Campbell (b. 1963)
Julie Campbell is an artist using the medium of embroidery. Her practise has evolved over the years from line drawing, through painting and now to fibre art.
In 2014 the M Museum in Louvain hosted an exhibition to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Andreas Vesalius, one of the most important figures in the history of modern medicine. This had a profound effect on Julie and was the beginning of her new work around the theme of the human body, its anatomy and workings. She started embroidering at the end of 2017 while looking for a new medium to work with.
As a mother to a chronically ill daughter she finds herself thrown into a new reality of researching Lyme disease, she has become a reluctant expert on auto-immune illnesses, pathogens and parasites. This is strongly reflected in her subject matter.
"What I find fascinating is that our outward appearance tells very little of the person we are. Our bodies are a facade. I like to explore beyond that idea, and get under the skin as it were."
Julie lives in Tervuren, a small Belgian village near Brussels.