Julie Lluch Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1946 -

Born on March 5, 1946 in Iligan City, Philippines, Julie Lluch completed a degree in Philosophy at the University of Sto. Tomas in 1967. She held her first one-woman show at Sining Kamalig in 1977. Others followed in venues like Galerie Bleue, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila and Liongoren Art Gallery. Her 1997 show “Art and Faith” was held at Galleria Duemila.

She has also joined international group exhibits in Fukuoka, Brisbane, Tokyo, Jakarta and Bangkok.

In 1997 Lluch won the Araw ng Maynila award for Sculpture. She has also won awards for her work as a set designer and as an experimental filmmaker. She produced and acted in the prize-winning short film “Yuta, Earth Art of Julie Lluch Dalena”.

Lluch’s public sculpture commissions include statues of Ninoy Aquino and Arsenio Lacson along Roxas Boulevard.

Artist statement:
I tend to idealize the potter’s life – its closeness to nature, its romance with earth, water, wind and fire, its simplicity. I am endlessly impressed with the story from the bible of how God fashioned man out of clay and blew into it the breath of life. What vivid imagery! How apt the metaphor! I see the potter meditatively bent over the turning wheel out of which rises a vessel of clay. That, I tell myself, is how I shall spend the days of my old age, turning out magical pots in some quiet retreat near the mountain, or beside the sea.