University for the Creative Arts

Faculty Member, Fashion and Management

Course Leader for BA Hons Fashion Promotion and Imaging

Epsom Campus, Surrey KT18 5BE

About

Biography:

Jules Findley’s practice emerges through looking at domestic issues and finding areas that are taboo, asking questions and through her artwork raises public awareness of solutions to domestic crises.  Work has included research into self-harm and more recently bereavement. The studies in bereavement have led to questioning in-depth areas of contemporary funeral rites, as well as sensitively exploring child death and how mothers carry the grief of their loved one forward and return to life.

Jules Findley studied Fashion and Textiles at Liverpool John Moores University, graduating with a First Class honours. After many years in the fashion industry, and film post production, she is a lecturer and Course Leader in Fashion Promotion and Imaging at University for the Creative Arts (UCA) Epsom.

Continuing her research, ideas from the wider context of domesticity are conceptually formed through questions and answers that involve research quantitatively or in reaction to qualitative research. Addressing sensitive issues and not necessarily being satisfied with the outcomes that are presented through literature, politics or media. Work is generated through mixed methods methodologies using a critical framework that can be cross-disciplined, and cross-cultural. The work is usually but not exclusively from a fashion and textiles grounding. Through questioning and process of enquiry what’s produced are not necessary the answers, but explore implicit possibilities so that the viewer has an opportunity to take up the discussion and interact through information or reaction. The aim is to draw the public’s attention and generate wider awareness to such issues.

Through collaboration with other artists such as Alice Kettle, and individual initiatives, new work emerges for exhibition, public interaction and examining sensitive issues to be discussed.

Recent research is in the area of Bereavement and Loss.