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Artist Statement:
Julia Cake: Sculptress
Born: 1973 in Monaco
Currently Living in England
Introduction
Julia's passion for sculpting
began when she was 16 after an
accident cut short a holiday
from another of her true
passions, skiing. She enrolled
in the famous Beaux Art
academy in France to more
fully express ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
A Bruch with Suffolk
Exhibition
Peter Pears Gallery
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
November 8th - November 23rd
2008
Monte-Carlo **** Hotel
Mirabeau ****
Add: 1 Avenue Princesses
Grace - MC
July 2007 - January 2008
Monte-Carlo, "Le Cafe de
Paris"
Add: Place du Casino - MC
June 2007 - September 15, 2007
Donald Trump's home Mar-...
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Artist Galleries:
2006 to Present
Galerie Lavagna Neel
06 Saint Paul de Vence, French
Riviera, FRANCE
2004 to Present
Phillips Galleries
Worth Avenue, Palm Beach,
Florida, USA
http://www.phillipsgalleries.ne
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Artist Reviews:
2008 Spring Art Magazine
"Green pebble" - Front Page
EDP and Mercury UK - Nov. 2007
Theatre Royal in Norwich -
England
"Performance"
Nice MONACO Matin - May 30,
2007 from Marc Brunoy (p:10)
ART OF ENGLAND Magazine -
February 2007 edition
(p:62/63)
Nice Matin Cannes news paper:
* April 1995 Inauguration
"Sur ...
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Commissions:
2007 Theatre Royal
Norwich England
"Performance"
1993 Cannes la Croisette
French Riviera, France
"Fish"
1993 Monument for Cannes
Frech Riviera, France
"Le Chemain vers la Paix"
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Julia Cake Biography:
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33
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
99
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Sculpture Stone
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| Your Personal Biography |
Picture the scene ...
Julia CAKE, born in Monte-Carlo in 1973.
Waking up each morning to the breathtaking view, watching the FI
grand prix from your balcony,
growing up in the French Riviera, enjoying fantastic holidays,
trips around the world, socializing with royalty, frequenting opera houses, restaurants and meeting the most famous and wealthiest visitors to Monaco from around the world.
What a blessed life?
Julia Cake, a formidable sculptress at 16, with her first ever piece achieving 2nd place amongst far more experienced international contenders, exhibiting in Nice, Paris, Toulon, Mougin, Eze, Monaco. She received offers of exclusive gallery contracts at 17. Had launched two and three meter monuments in Cannes and was preparing to embark on a number of monuments for the America’s with the first, approved for placement in Washington DC all before the age of 21.
Next step homeless and sleeping on the Beach in Miami. The reality of wealth and power!
Julia’s early sculpting success could have come from here seemingly privileged background. Alas no, it had to come from her independence, stubbornness, determination and obvious talent and all at a serious personal cost to Julia’s already fragile demeanour. In fact she was discouraged from sculpting almost as soon as she started because this was not the route intended for her. After persuasive techniques failed, she was finally positively forbidden to continue and to take a marketing degree and work for her father in his business.
She attained her degree in Florida, 1998 but didn’t return as instructed. It is only more recently she can face up to the reality of her punishment, being told by her father that he had emptied her French bank accounts of everything she had earned and she would receive no help from him until she came into his business in France.
After staying in Miami and working around the clock just to survive, Julia was one day introduced to a family in Palm Beach who after finding out what treatment she had endured and what she was doing to survive they invited her to stay with them and take some much needed recovery time. Around three more years of sculpting abstention passed before Julia married and finally had a new opportunity to sculpt. An art supply store owner saw some photographs of Julia’s early works and clearly recognizing what talent was lying within offered her some free stone.
He was not alone in his discovery. In the space of only a few months Julia had produced a handful of sculptures using half the equipment she needed and much physical work. She recalls polishing a particular marble piece with her husband in their kitchen every night after work until 3 a.m. for several weeks. The immense importance to Julia was the need to clear her conscience, believing she had let down a collector of one of America’s largest priceless art collections years earlier when she was living under the demands of her father.
This piece was delivered and now stands as a reflection of her destroyed self amongst works from great artist’s such as, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Picasso, Botero, Matisse, Dali, Modigliani, Arp, the list goes on.
When asked about her style, Julia says that with marble, style is often determined by the stone itself. A recent piece called Complex II started from a small red colored blemish in the stone that became the cheek (butt) of a beautiful lady. Most people assume Julia’s work is somewhat abstract but that is not always the way Julia sees that same work. The intent that shows in her work is certainly unique and it is abundantly clear that she sees exclusively in her way. Some of her work can only be completely appreciated by the viewer over time, with Julia’s real intent only known with an understanding of her deepest thoughts.
When Julia discovered this arena at 16 her work was immediately recognized as something refreshing and very special. It seems once again exactly 16 years later Julia’s talents have been instantly recognized in her new work.
After seeing only two new pieces, a gallery owner in Palm Beach’s prestigious Worth Avenue asked if he could offer her work for sale in his gallery even though he had vowed years earlier to never again purvey sculptures. Even more recently Julia was asked to visit Donald Trump after he saw her work, and requested that she bring a piece to display in his Palm Beach home for himself and his guests during a large Thanksgiving event. Quite an accolade after he had recently acquired a hotel in Florida filled with more than 1000 pieces of art to choose from.
Julia now sees her “riches to rags” life as an opportunity for reversal. As she looks back to that beach in Miami Julia says, she can dwell on her loneliness and the world turning it’s back on her or she can gather strength from knowing that this re-launch of herself is entirely of her own making with the success she is having due to her passion for art and the expression of all of her experiences good and bad. Starting again with a new married name in a new country and new life experiences, has proved to Julia it was not where she came from that gave her success but what she created. She was reborn on that beach and given a new lease of life with a stronger purpose to show to the world the beauty and intrigue of her creative mind.
To find out more about Julia Cake’s Telephone: + 44 (0) 77 68 63 18 15
E-mail: US_Europe@hotmail.com
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