Hi! I’m Julia.  I’m an artist based in the Scottish Highlands who works across choreography, performance, participatory practice and film.

I am interested in working with movement, the body, objects and materials that reflect the environment, history and people I see around me.

I collaborate with other artists from interdisciplinary fields to create live indoor and outdoor performance, digital/multi-media projects and community engagement events.

Through my current projects – The Morrich, Goldy-looking blanket and Buckethead – I’m investigating themes of self-discovery, metamorphosis, landscape, climate change and deep time.  The Morrich is a live contemporary performance inspired by an area of land near my home in the Highlands called Morrich More.  Created in collaboration with artists Nicolette Macleod, Penny Chivas, Saffy Setohy and Laura Bradshaw, the work is ready to tour in 2027/28.  Buckethead is a creative documentary short film that is being shot on location at Tain Air Weapons Range. The film follows a lonely scarecrow type figure who is tramping across a desolate landscape in search of their tribe. Goldy-looking blanket is an investigation of movement underneath and in contact with a gold-coloured space blanket that I’m exploring through film and live performance.

Since moving to Easter Ross in 2011, I’ve initiated dance and movement projects for people of all ages and abilities within schools, community settings and arts organisations across the Highlands from Caithness to Lochaber and from the Black Isle to the Isle of Lewis.  I’ve also worked with national organisations such as Starcatchers and Imaginate to facilitate movement and play sessions with early years and young people who have physical and learning disabilities.

I am a member of the Scottish Artists Union, The Work Room, the Dance Base Artist Advisory Group and the Dance North Regional Artist Support Scheme.