Julia deVille

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Julia deVille
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Born
Wellington, New Zealand
EducationAdvanced Diploma in Gold and Silversmithing, North Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Occupations
  • Artist
  • jeweller
Website www.juliadeville.com

Julia deVille is a New Zealand-born artist, jeweller and taxidermist, who only uses subjects in her taxidermy that have died of natural causes. She lives and works in Australia.

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Early life and education

Julia deVille was born in Wellington, New Zealand. [1] She studied fashion for one year at Massey University and then moved to Melbourne in 2001 to study shoe making/design at RMIT. DeVille enrolled in two short jewellery courses in late 2002, at the same time she met her taxidermy mentor and started learning the craft of taxidermy. [2] [3]

She enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Gold and Silversmithing from 2003 to 2004. [4]

Career

DeVille only uses subjects in her taxidermy that have died of natural causes. [5] She is an advocate for animal rights, and began including taxidermy in her art work in 2002, [6] combining it with her jewellery making practice to produce small sculptures and installations. DeVille’s interest in memento mori traditions of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian mourning jewellery inform her wearable pieces. [7]

Awards

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

'Actaeon' (taxidermy fawn with chainmail saddle, sparrow wings, smoky quartz and silver reins and harness and sterling silver stirrups) made by Julia deVille for her 2010 exhibition 'Night's Plutonian Shore' at Sophie Gannon Gallery - Melbourne Actaeon; ataxidermy fawn with chainmail saddle, sparrow wings, smoky quartz and silver reins and harness and sterling silver stirrups.jpg
'Actaeon' (taxidermy fawn with chainmail saddle, sparrow wings, smoky quartz and silver reins and harness and sterling silver stirrups) made by Julia deVille for her 2010 exhibition 'Night's Plutonian Shore' at Sophie Gannon Gallery - Melbourne

Bibliography

Collections

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