Julia Dubsky

In her artistic practice, Julia Dubsky works with painting, drawing, and writing, thoughtfully referencing art history and literary movements. While she has mostly exhibited abstract paintings, she also explores different styles and has recently opened up the possibility of including figures in her work. Dubsky takes inspiration from the early Renaissance artist Antonio Pollaiuolo and is fascinated by the 'doubleness' and 'thing-at-a-remove' in acting, which she incorporates into her paintings to explore the mimetic connections between perception and image representation. Her creative process begins with automatic drawing and selective erasure of figurative motifs, resulting in a unique and thought-provoking body of work. Each canvas reflects a multiplicity of attitudes, reflecting her varied approaches in her art. ...

Amanda Wilkinson opened her gallery in November 2017, having been a partner in Wilkinson Gallery, and brought with her the artists that she had worked with since 2003. Most of these internationally renowned artists had their first solo UK exhibition at the gallery: Joan Jonas and Shimabuku in 2004, Sung Hwan Kim in 2007, Jimmy DeSana in 2009, and Laurie Simmons in 2011. The program has also introduced younger artists such as Heman Chong, Phoebe Unwin, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė all of whom have solo exhibitions in public institutions this year. Amanda Wilkinson is a trustee of the Derek Jarman Estate and is the sole gallery who represents the work. The program continues to highlight key historical artists who are little known to the wider art world, including Paolo Gioli, Ketty La Rocca and Margaret Raspé and will introduce new artists to the program in 2020 in keeping with the gallery’s experimental and cross-generational approach. The gallery has presented four Feature booths at ArtBasel in the past , featuring six artists from the program. Eight out of the twelve artists represented by the gallery had solo museum exhibitions in 2019/2020. ...