1950 Born London, UK
1968-72 The Slade School of Fine Art, London
Selected Awards
1974-76 Harkness Fellow at the University of New Mexico making lithographs with Garo Antreasian
and subsequently painting in New York
2007 First Prize Winner, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour competition
2009 Commission for La Gravure Originale, Paris, France
Solo exhibitions and selected publications
1974 Jordan Gallery, London
1980 JPL Gallery, London
1983 Air Gallery, London
Huddersfield City Art Gallery, Huddersfield
1986 Curwen Gallery, London
1992 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1995 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
Partwork (with Ian Tyson), Galerie Druck und Buch, Tubingen
Partwork (with Ian Tyson), Eagle Gallery, London
1996 Artist of the Day, Flowers East, London, selected by Kim Lim
2000 Babel Variations, Backroom, London
Transformations, Eagle Gallery, London
2001 Publication of LO, an artist’s book with Judith Thurman, EMH Arts, London
2002 Towers and Bridges, Eagle Gallery, London
2006 Publication of Mandorla, an artist’s book with Anthony Rudolf, Ki Press, London
2009 Imprints Gallery, Drôme, France
2013 Helical Links, Eagle Gallery, London
2015 Seeds and Syntax, two person exhibition with Mandy Bonnell,
Eagle Gallery, London
2019 Imprints, Crest, France
Selected group exhibitions
1972 Krakow Print Biennale, Poland
Photography into Art, Camden Arts Centre, London
1973 International Triennale of Coloured Prints, Grenchen, Switzerland
First British International Drawing Biennale, Teeside
Tenth International Print Biennale Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Serpentine Graphics 73, Serpentine Gallery, London
1974 Bienal Internacional de Obra Grafica y Grabado, Segovia, Spain
1977 Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York
1979 1st Nuremberg Drawing Biennial
1978 Second Hayward Annual, South Bank Centre, London
1984 Julia Farrer and Rebecca Salter, Curwen Gallery, London
1987 New York Centre for Book Art, New York
1988 Julia Farrer, James Hugonin, Ian Tyson, Galerie Klaus Lupke, Frankfurt
1989 Painters and Poets in Prints, South Bank Centre, London
1991 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1992 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London – invited artist
1992 Five YearsFrancis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1993 Threshold,Hardware Gallery, London
British Artists Books,Scarborough Museum and Art Gallery
1994 Mapping Knowledge,Minories Gallery, Colchester
Artists Books, Memorial for Hartmut Honzera,Kunsthandwerk Museum, Frankfurt
1996 British AbstractArt, Flowers East, London
1997 Point, Line, Plane, Eagle Gallery, London
1998 University of California at San Diego (with Ian Tyson)
Books as Art, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery
1999 GRAPHIC! British Prints Now, Yale Center for British Art
Books by Artists: A survey of Artists Books 1989-1999,
Faculty of Art Media and Design, UWE Bristol
Small is Beautiful, Flowers West, Los Angeles
2000 New Prints, Flowers East, London
2002 Artfutures, Contemporary Art Society, London
2004 Themes and Variations,(with Ian Tyson), Eagle Gallery, London
2005 John Carter, Julia Farrer, Noel Forster, Eagle Gallery, London
Bending Space, Eagle Gallery, London
2008 Converge Diverge, Jaggedart, London
Space Now, Space Studios Gallery, London
2009 Dialogues and Transformations, Eagle Gallery, London
Central Booking, Brooklyn, New York
2010 / 2011 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
Multiplied,Christies South Kensington, London
2011 Bildauer Treiben’s Bunt, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
2012 The Artist’s Imprint, Eagle Gallery, London
The Process, Jaggedart, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2013 Panel Paintings, Eagle Gallery, London
2016 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
“So we beat on,” Eagle Gallery, London
The Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery, (curated by Norman Ackroyd)
The Masters,The Royal Society of Printmakers, Bankside Gallery
2017 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
Counterpoints, Eagle Gallery, London
2019 Panel Paintings3: Diptych, Eagle Gallery,London
Special Editions, Eagle Gallery, London
Embodying Colour V, Museum-Wilhem-Morgner, Soest, Germany
2020 Erwerbungen der Marianne & Heinrich Lenhardt-Stiftung 2015-2019,
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserlautern, Germany
Selected Collections
Arts Council, England
British Museum, Department of Prints & Drawings
Modern British Collections, British Library, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, London
Stoy Hayward, London
TATE, London
Clifford Chance, London
Government Art Collection, London
Manchester Metropolitan University Library
Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, London
La Bibliotheque National, Paris
La Fondation Rothschild, Paris
Musée Départamental Stephane Mallarme, Vulaines-sur-Seine
Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
University of Houston, Texas
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA
University of California San Diego, USA
Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
Talks & Publications
1978 Hayward Annual artists’ lecture to Tate Gallery guides
1999 The Prints of Kim Lim, an essay for the catalogue Kim Lim, published by Camden Arts Centre
Open discussion with Mel Gooding and Tess Jaray, on Kim Lim at the Camden Arts Centre
2011 Public Lecture, Goldsmiths College, London
Bibliography
1973 Serpentine Graphics 73. Work by 26 Young Artists, Serpentine Gallery, London
Edward Lucie-Smith, published by the Arts Council, London
1974 J.Peter Pope, Arts Review, Julia Farrer, Jordan Gallery, London
1978 Sarah Kent, catalogue essay, Hayward Annual Show, Hayward Gallery, London
1983 Mel Gooding, Arts Review, Michael Kidner/Julia Farrer, Air Gallery, London
1986 Guy Hurn, Arts Review, Julia Farrer, Curwen Gallery, London
Mel Gooding, catalogue essay, Julia Farrer, Curwen Gallery. London
1996 Cathy Courtney, Art Monthly, Review of Partworks, Julia Farrer and Ian Tyson
2000 Andrew Mead, Architects Journal, review of Transformations, Eagle Gallery, London
2002 Andrew Mead, catalogue essay Julia Farrer: Towers & Bridges, Eagle Gallery, London
2007 Frank Whitford, Sunday Times, Singer Friedlander,Sunday Times Prize Winner 2007review
2013 Robert Vas Dias, catalogue essay, Helical Links, Eagle Gallery, London
Nancy Campbell, Printmaking Today vol 22 Spring, Spaces in Between