Artist profiles
Juliet Haysom
Price range ( works on paper): £250 - £680
Juliet Haysom ( b. 1978) studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School, University of Oxford, specialising in sculpture. she was awarded the Cunliffe Sculpture Prize and a scholarship to Pembroke College before graduating in 2001. She completed an MPhil at the Royal College of Art in 2004, producing a broad body of work as part of her research into the nature of representation.
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In the same year she was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at The British School at Rome. In 2005 she took up a residency at Headington School in Oxford, after which she moved to London, where she now lives and works.
In 2007 Juliet was awarded the Jerwood Sculpture Prize for her proposal Spring, which involved drilling a 24-metre borehole into the bedrock beneath the Jerwood Sculpture park at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire. In the same year, she began work on an ongoing commission for Urban Splash at Lakeshore, Bristol, adapting the lost wax casting method to make a 70-metre bronze rail that will form part of the site’s heating system. As well as working on these large-scale sculpture projects, she remains fascinated by drawing, and the problems and possibilities of representation.
Juliet has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and has been included in exhibitions at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2009; Trinity Fine Art in London and New York in 2009; The Drawing Gallery in 2009, 2006, 2005 and 2004; The British Museum, London in 2008 and 2007; Image Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo and the Moscow Art Fair in 2007; Abbot Hall, Kendal in 2006; and The British School, Rome and the Romanian Academy, Rome in 2005 and 2004. She was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2005 and 2002. Her drawings are included within the collections of Pembroke College, Oxford, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The British Museum, London.
