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Julie Fiedler
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Extending painting into three dimensions, Julie Fiedler creates ceramic sculptures that explore the intimate and complex relationship between humanity, animals, and the natural world. Making non-functional clay sculptures allows her to translate painterly instincts into form, surface, and texture. These works exist as emotional and visual explorations—objects that carry narrative, memory, and presence. She often combines hand-building with elements cast from real objects, including her own face, using masks and busts as deeply personal vessels that embed identity within each piece while responding to the natural world.
The work evolves slowly, often passing through the kiln multiple times as layers of glaze and china painting build depth and luminosity. This time-intensive process mirrors the intricacy of both painting and nature itself, creating surfaces that feel delicate, vivid, and alive. The studio becomes a place where physical labor and reflection intertwine, allowing ideas to unfold and emotions to surface as each piece develops.
At the heart of Julie’s practice is a deep attachment to nature and a fascination with its exquisite detail. Her work reflects an ongoing inquiry into humanity’s complex connection to the natural world—our desire to understand it, control it, and belong within it. Having worked in clay for decades, she values the sustained, uninterrupted time that allows for deeper exploration, where each sculpture becomes both an object and a record of thought, observation, and experience.
The work evolves slowly, often passing through the kiln multiple times as layers of glaze and china painting build depth and luminosity. This time-intensive process mirrors the intricacy of both painting and nature itself, creating surfaces that feel delicate, vivid, and alive. The studio becomes a place where physical labor and reflection intertwine, allowing ideas to unfold and emotions to surface as each piece develops.
At the heart of Julie’s practice is a deep attachment to nature and a fascination with its exquisite detail. Her work reflects an ongoing inquiry into humanity’s complex connection to the natural world—our desire to understand it, control it, and belong within it. Having worked in clay for decades, she values the sustained, uninterrupted time that allows for deeper exploration, where each sculpture becomes both an object and a record of thought, observation, and experience.
