Julie Duffy, born Edinburgh, 1987, is an artist committed to exploring our own embodied understanding of the body in motion. Working with practitioners in dance, Duffy’s work aims to open up a dialogue about the knowledge the body has, and how we share and interpret this with others.

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Drawing on her experience in martial arts, particularly the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do, Duffy connects this to everything she does in her interpretation of space, movement and dynamism of the body.

Working across different mediums, such as sculpture, print, text, video and performance; allows her to create multi-faceted installations for audiences to experience, all in an attempt to better understand the need to dance, be it controlled or otherwise.

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Taking on extensive research, Duffy references multiple periods and events in history. Reference points have included, the dancing plague of Strasbourg in 1518, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy-tale The Red Shoes, old Hollywood, and rave culture of the 90’s.

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Duffy has exhibited across Scotland and Internationally. With notable exhibitions and performances taking place at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2013; Organised Improvisation, Kiosque (à côté de la Chalet) Parc de la Garenne, Nérac, 2019; The Glue Factory, Glasgow, 2021 and a solo presentation at Pig Rocky Bothy, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2015. She has also delivered lectures at The National Galleries of Scotland for the Lee Miller & Picasso Adult Events Programme and their Friday Mixer evenings.

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