Left: Sometimes I Feel Small | 2009 | Embroidery on childhood painting Right: An Attempt To Copy A Drawing I Made When I Was 5 | 2008 | Embroidery on childhood drawing
"I always used to think, wouldn't it be just so amazing, so great, so profound and so lovely if, as I was turning into a street where I used to live about 10 years previously, when life wasn't so good for me, that, as I turned that corner, I could bump into the me of ten years before - and tell him that it gets better; that where he is now will end and that it won't be like this forever?
Julie's work, where she revisits childhood drawings make me think of this. Of being able to reach out some tiny hand across the years and make a brief, fleeting, momentary connection between the me of now and the me of then. And maybe it's just because I had a needlessly, wasted, terrifying and desperate time in my twenties, but these works of Julie's just make me want to cry."
Russell Herron Journals, 2009
Taken from the exhibition catalogue for "This Was Now - The Russell Herron Collection", Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, 2009.
