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I’m a Swiss artist and illustrator currently living and working in Zurich. The natural world is my greatest source of inspiration. As I watch it continuously reinvent itself, I see it always finds the most startling solutions for any given challenge. What cannot withstand the change eventually ceases to be. This is why change, the only constant in the universe, opens doors to an infinite amount of possibilities. As we get older, these doors often seem to shut forever. But why not say goodbye to cynicism and rigidity and reopen these wondrous doors of all possibility?

Let’s look beyond what we take for granted and rebuild the invisible castles we've abandoned a long time ago. Because we deserve it like we deserve to dream, to imagine, to wonder and to rejoice within the vast potential of our existence.

Curiosity killed the cat, but it hasn't killed you and me, so if you have any questions, answers, stories, ideas, commissions or projects, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.


EDUCATION

2009 MA Communication Design, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London

2005 BFA in Illustration, Parsons School of Design, New York

AWARDS

2nd prize, poster competition of the Swiss Leauge Against Vivisection, March 2010
1st prize, Illustration competition, Careum Foundation, January 2010
Wallpaper* Graduate Directory 2010
1st prize, Swatch Young Illustrators Award, October 2009

EXHIBITIONS

‘Illustrative 09’, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (2009)
‘Images 33, Best of British Illustration’, LCC, London (2009)
‘MACD Degree Show’, Candid Arts Gallery, London (2009)
‘Exquisite Corpse’, Shoreditch Townhall, London (2008)
‘Art Bazaar’, Melange Gallery, London (2007)
‘Pool Video Art Fair’, Miami Beach, Florida (2005)
‘Illustration (BFA) Thesis Show’, Aronson Galleries, New York (2005)

PUBLICATIONS

Boxhorn Magazine, Issue 21, 2010
Electronic Beats Magazine, Issue 1, 2010
Faces of Design Publication, 2010
Computer Arts Magazine, Issue 170, 2009
Gustav Magazin, Issue 14, Winter 09/10
Images 33, Best of British Illustration 2009 (GB)
MA-tters, 2009 (GB)

All images and text copyright © 2009 Julia Bruderer