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Julia deVille | |
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| Born | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Education | Advanced Diploma in Gold and Silversmithing, North Melbourne Institute of TAFE |
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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.
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]
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]
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