artist biography

Jules Bishop lives in Oxfordshire and the driving force in her work is environmental activism.  She works in an intersectional way, crossing disciplines in the humanities, sciences and technology and her versatile practice embodies sculpture, video art, performance, ‘happenings’, print, drawing, dialogue and natural inks & pigments.  Her current research centres on the natural habitat of hedgerows in rural Oxfordshire where she is part of the ‘Green Plan’ Hedgerow Survey Team; a joint initiative between the Watlington Climate Action Group and the Watlington Environment Group. Jules has built a seasonal collection of hedgerow inks and has developed a unique way of working with the inks, freezing them to preserve vibrancy, and creating ice-process drawings using different substrates.  She also works with hedgerow pigments whose uses include mixing into CO2 absorbing plastic VOC-free paint. She raises awareness and facilitates the depth of community engagement by means of poetic activism.

Jules exhibited her ice-process drawing, Sloe Copper, in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition 2021 in London. The exhibition toured in 2022 to Drawing Projects in Wiltshire and The Cooper Gallery in Dundee. Jules recently completed a Science Together research project between The University of Oxford and Watlington Climate Action Group and is currently working on a legacy project.  Along with contributing to Celebration Events at the University of Oxford Botanical Gardens, Jules also collaborated in an art workshop, Art, Science and Creativity, at the Living Knowledge Conference 2022 in Groningen in the Netherlands.  She is a member of the Plants & Colour Study Group in the UK and the Pigments Revealed International Association in the US where she was the speaker of the month in January 2024.