Born in Leicester,  Lives and works in Hampshire

 

MA Fine Art: Drawing   Wimbledon School of Art, UAL, London 2003

 

BA Visual Communication  Brighton, Sussex 1976-9

 

Foundation Studies in Fine Art  Leicester Polytechnic 1975-6

                   

                     

Selected Exhibitions

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2022        Weaving Wood and Stone   Fine Foundation Gallery  Durlston  Dorset

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2021        CONNECT    The Vanner Gallery  Salisbury  Wiltshire

 

2020        The Castlegate Prize  Castlegate House Gallery  Cumbria

 

2019        The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize  

                 London and touring: The Salisbury Museum and The Gallery De Montfort University, Leicester

 

2019         DRAWN  The Young Gallery   Salisbury City Art Galleries  Wiltshire

 

2019         The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) Annual Exhibition  Mall Galleries London

 

2019         Julia Polonski  Works The Barn Gallery  Salisbury  Wiltshire

 

2015         Drawings   98TBR Gallery London

 

2015         Group Exhibition, WID  Southampton City Art Gallery

 

2014         Works on Paper   Science Museum London

 

2013         The National Open Art Exhibition Winners Exhibition Pallant House Chichester,

                 RCA London and  Minerva Theatre Chichester

 

2012         Evolution: Frink and the next generation   Bournemouth University

                 Co-curated by J Herring (BU Curator) and A Ratuszniak (Curator of the Frink Estate)

 

2010         Bournemouth University Art Loan Collection

 

2009         Julia Polonski    Drawings   Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University  

 

2008         Julia Polonski   New Paintings    Barn Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire          

 

2006         The Jerwood Drawing Prize     Jerwood Space, London and touring UK

 

2005         Julia Polonski  New Drawings    Barn Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire  

 

2004        The Hunting Art Prizes    Royal College of Art, London

 

2004         Julia Polonski    Body: a sense of place   ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire

 

2003         Winner of ArtSway Open Exhibition   ArtSway  Sway, Hampshire

 

2002         Drawing    Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon, London          

 

2002         ING and the Discerning Eye   ING Barings, London Wall, London          

 

 

Awards

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2021       Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award

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2021       Research and Development Award, Arts Council England

 

2019        Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award

 

2014        Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award

 

2014        BU Artist/Maker of the Year,  Curator's award

 

2013       The SOUTHWOOD AWARD, The National Open Art Competition

 

2009       Research and Development Award, Arts Council England

 

2007        Award winner  Art in Action  Waterperry, Oxford

 

2003        Winner of ArtSway Open Exhibition   ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire                

 

2003        Winner of the Wimbledon School of Art Postgraduate Drawing Prize  

 

2001-3     Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Award