Biography

Juliet Baker (b.1998) is an artist who lives and works in London. Her work is engaged with repetitive linear mark-making, utilising a range of materials, from clay, latex, wax, to metal. In particular, she is interested in etching and how the bite on a metal plate pools ink into crevices and grooves, later staining paper. Casting, acts of transcription, and printing, are important processes to her.

Anatomical illustration and representations of the body, including eyes, hands, bones and fingers, are a key point of reference. Other symbols include rope, string, chain, netting, foliage and fabric. The work is an expression of subjective emotional experiences after the pandemic and are specific to this time period. Her sculptures comment on the kitsch aspects of artmaking, and are marked by high levels of tactility, a preoccupation with surface, decoration, and a performative figure. She focused on producing a body of drawings, sculptures and prints whilst studying at the Slade School of Fine Art for her Sculpture MA (2020-2022). She has an etching in the Clifford Chance Print Collection.

Writing

Confronting the Abject - Three Female Artists and the Flesh [PDF]

CV

• DUMP, Shoreditch
• Annihilation, Ohsh Projects
• Pada Residency, Barreiro, Portugal
• Studio, The Bomb Factory, Chelsea
• Postgraduate Printmakers Survey Exhibition, Clifford Chance
• Slade Postgraduate Degree Show
• Synthesis, Hackney
• At the edge of safehouse, Peckham
• Studio, Caprica, Aldgate

Education

• MA Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art (2020 – 2022)
• BA History of Art at UCL, First Class Honours (2017 – 2020)

Contact

juliet_baker@icloud.com