Julie Oxenforth
United Kingdom
email:
oxenforth@yahoo.co.uk
Biography
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Julie Oxenforth was born and educated
in the U.K. After school she studied painting
and sculpture at art college from 1984 –1988,
and then traveled to the Middle East for the
first time in 1989, stopping at Cyprus College
of Art for the Summer School before heading on
to Israel and Egypt. Here she discovered the
Sinai and made many long-term visits to the area
throughout the 90’s.
She started meditation in 1994 which she
learnt from both Western and Eastern teachers,
from the U.K, California and with a Theravadan
Thai nun, Mai Chee Patomwon. In 2001 she was
accredited to teach Chi Gong by MalaysianTai Chi
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In 2003 she returned to Cyprus and taught life-drawing
at the Limassol Studios. Then after graduating from
Sunderland University (2004 -05) with a Distinction in
M.A .Fine Art she was artist-in-residence for Rednile
Projects and made a site-specific installation for them
in a disused car-showroom.
She likes exhibiting in unusual places and also made a
large-scale installation for the historic Banqueting
Hall in Newcastle, U.K. In 2006 she returned to the
Sinai after an 8-year gap and reawakened the passion for
this part of the world, moving to Cairo in 2007. Here
she has participated in group exhibitions, a 2-person
exhibition with Egyptian artist Ibrahim Saad at Cairo
Atelier and a solo exhibition at Artellewa Contemporary
Art Space in Giza.
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