Juliette Losq (b. 1978 London, UK) is an internationally exhibited, prizewinning artist. Losq studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts London (2004- 2007) and the Royal Academy Schools (2007-2010), as well as studying English and History of Art at Newnham College, Cambridge (1997-2000) and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London (2000-2001).
Losq won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2005, was one of five shortlisted artists for the John Moores Prize in 2014, receiving the Visitor’s Choice Award, and received the John Ruskin Prize in 2019. She was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Guild of St. George in 2020, as a Royal West of England Academician in 2021, and as a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2022. In 2023 she was invited to join the Contemporary British Painting group.
Losq is included in The Women's Art Collection, The Newnham College Art Collection, All Visual Arts, The Royal West of England Academy, the Fountainhead Collection and various private collections in the UK and worldwide.
The artist - My works depict civilisation dissolving slowly back into nature. In creating my compositions I construct physical models like miniature theatres or dioramas, with layers of painted paper suggesting both of the accretion of time and the creep of the undergrowth. The works describe such scenes as if contained within tanks underwater, like experiments for capturing disintegration in stasis. This underwater world harks back to ancient superstitions of waterways as places into which offerings would be cast. In these works I imagine our contemporary world as just such another offering: lost to the rivers of time, a relic below the waterline.
Behemoth
A few years ago I was visiting Edinburgh and was surprised to find a very overgrown brutalist building in the centre of town. It's rare to find a 'modern ruin' that has been allowed to persist for long enough that nature has reclaimed it. After a bit of research I discovered it was an RBS building that was due to be demolished. Legend has it the entire building was built to house their first computer and those employees required to operate it. The building was a poignant reminder of the future of all our endeavours.