BIOGRAPHY
Juli Jana lives both in Cape Town and London where she studied printing and acquired a
Master degree n Creative Research.
She has exhibited extensively in group exhibitions and solo shows in both cities. As a
published poet she was featured artist-poet in The High Window
CV
In London she exhibited at St Bride's Printmakers, Menier Gallery, Espacio Gallery, Studio
61, Made in Greenwich Gallery, Blackheath Gallery, Gallery 61 amongst others.
In South Africa she has exhibited at The Cape Gallery, Hamilton Gallery, Gallery 6 Spin
Street, Gallery 101, Art.B Gallery, Axis Gallery, Simonsvlei Gallery, Stellenbosch Art Gallery,
Franschhoek Art House, Kunsthouse CT, Balito Bay Gallery, Strydom & Jordaan, AVA,
Pretoria Association of Arts etc
Exhibitions 2024 Gallery 6 Spin Street C.T.(Jan), Art B Gallery (Feb), Hamilton Gallery C.T.
(March),Knightsbridge Gallery C.T.(April -May), The Holy Art Gallery 9 Barcelona (June),Life
& Death Gallery (Sept)
Exhibitions 2023 The Cape Gallery, Investec Art Expo with Axis Gallery, Life and Death
Gallery, Hamilton Gallery, Art B Gallery, Art & Company, Simonsvlei Gallery
Exhibitions 2022 and earlier: Both in London and Cape Town – paintings and graphic works
in various group and solo exhibitions.
STATEMENT
Art not only reflects attitude and excitement in its exploration, it also allows both the artist
and observer as a participant to layer it with his/her own
experience and thought.
Juli Jana’s paintings are spontaneous with a life of their own. She explores and experiments
with construct, form, colour and concept. Her approach
is poetical in the layering of images, rhythm, colour, form. There is a contrast between
curved and linear, between explored and unexplored forms and colours.
She finds inspiration from street graffiti as well as the intensity colour (Kadinsky, Mark
Rothko).
She constantly uses new perspectives reflecting inner and outer exploration.
The creative process include markings, splashings, layers of paint and other mediums.
Painting is the suspension and exposition of the gaze . . . “ Giorgio Agamben
