Julie Whitenect (she/her) is a printmaker and mixed media artist.
Graduating from Mount Allison University in 2014, she has been busy growing her practice, working on commissions, exhibiting locally, nationally, and internationally as well as receiving project grants from the New Brunswick Arts Board and The Canada Council for the Arts. Julie is the Executive Director of ArtsLink NB, is very engaged in the local arts ecosystem.
Her work explores the relationship between natural and constructed environments, exposing the viewer to their dichotomy. She is interested in exploring industrial themes, creating a correspondence and resolving curiosity by examining what is left and what will be. Exploring the New Brunswick art discourse surrounding place and ideas of place making.
Living and working in Saint John, New Brunswick, which sits on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq People.
julie whitenect c.v.
Exhibitions and Projects
2022 the-city-surrounds-us, Queen², THIRD SHIFT: peripheries, Group exhibition
2022 round-triptych, Ellen’s Tour Exhibition, Friends of Fundy’s School Street Gallery, Group touring exhibition
2022 round-triptych, Ellen’s Tour Exhibition, AX: the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex, Group touring exhibition
2021 untitled (mini watercolours), Third Space Gallery, Members' Show + Sale, online and group exhibition
2021 out-door-gathering, THIRD SHIFT: Traverse, Group exhibition
2021 untitled, queen square, and snow-boat, Third Space Gallery, Spring Members' Show + Sale, online and group exhibition
2021 after-effects1, Saint John Arts Centre, Spotlight on Women Artists
2020 huddle-up, ‘Connectivity’, Third Space Gallery, online exhibition
2019 essential-archives, ‘Haunt’, Third Space Gallery, Group Exhibition
2018 Open Studio Residency, Saint John Arts Centre
2018 #thirdTHIRDSHIFT, catalogue, Self-Published
2018 untitled, 6th Biennial FOOTPRINT, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Juried
2018 turn-out, Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Solo Exhibition
2017 turn-out, Saint John Arts Centre, Solo Exhibition
2017 turn-out, 'Art @ ECB', Group Exhibition
2017 Rail Cars, 'Pop up Video', Quality Block Party screening
2016-17 real-imagined-landscape, 'Take off!', Third Space Gallery Group Exhibition
2016 real-imagined-landscape, 'What's in the box?', Saint John Arts Centre annual fundraiser
2016 Where are we again?, McGills, installation
2015 You and Me (and everyone watching), ‘The Sweetest Little Thing, Group Exhibition
2015 Crossing, Saint John Arts Centre, ‘WORKING TITLE’, Group Exhibition(catalogue)
2014 Train, Crossing, Gallery 1313, ‘Summer Emerging Artist Exhibition’, Group Exhibition
2014 Untitled, Owens Art Gallery, ‘BFA Graduate exhibit’, Group Exhibition (catalogue)
2014 Just another (he)art, Owens Art Gallery, ‘The Sweetest Little Thing, Group Exhibition
2013 Innuendo, Halifax NS and Sackville NB, ‘NSCAD/MTA Print Exchange’, Group Project
2013 Peeping Panels, Sackville NB, ‘Comfort/Discomfort’, Group Exhibition
2013 Asteroids, Presidents Cottage, Sackville NB, ‘Paperworks’, Group Exhibition
2013 Romantic Direction, Owens Art Gallery, ‘The Sweetest Little Thing’, Group Exhibition
2011 Summer Work, Port Saint John, Solo Exhibition
Education
2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University
2022 Certificate in Contemporary Management in Arts & Culture, University of New Brunswick
Awards
2021 artsnb Creation Grant, Category B, out-look
2021 Greater Saint John Region Professional Visual Artists Fund
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create, essential-archives
2018 artsnb Creation Grant, Category C, turn-to-me
2018 artsnb Documentation Grant, #thirdTHIRDSHIFT
2017 artsnb Creation Grant, Category C, imaged-future
2013 Campbell-Verduyn Summer Art Studio Residency, look-away
2012-13 Marjorie Young Bell Fine Arts and Music Award
Related Employment
2018- Executive Director, ArtsLink NB
2016-18 Associate Director, ArtsLink NB
2017-18 Board member, Saint John Community Arts Board
2015-18 Treasurer, Third Space
2014-15 Communications Coordinator, ArtsLink NB
2014 Communications and Marketing Intern, ArtsLink NB
2013-14 Production Manager, The Argosy; Mount Allison’s Independent student Newspaper 2013-14 Student Technician, Mount Allison Print Studio
2013-14 Vice President, Fine Arts Society, Mount Allison University
2013 Mentor/Assistant, New Brunswick Art Enrichment Camp
2012-13 Production Assistant, The Argosy Mount Allison’s Independent student Newspaper
2011 Vendor, Saint John Port Authority