Julia Wallman is a textile artist working sculpturally with quilting, sewing, bead embroidery and dyeing. Always rooted in textiles, her work materializes as tactile sculptural pieces that explore shifts in scale and material as a narrative form. Flowers often appear as both visual and conceptual motifs, symbolizing transience and transformation, while elements related to the body—such as clothing, food or fragments of flesh—create a dialogue between the organic and the constructed, the personal and the universal. Through these materials and symbols, Wallman explores impermanence, indulgence, perfection and surrealism. Braiding, knotting, and wrapping recur as methods and metaphors, acts that embody both control and care, gestures of precision that carry with them tenderness, memory and the passage of time.
In addition to her artistic practice, she works with textile dyeing and patination within the world of costume design and performing arts. Through these techniques, she contributes to creating depth, history and atmosphere in costumes—bringing fabrics to life by enhancing their textures, colors and wear. This process aligns with her broader interest in transformation, materiality and storytelling through textiles.
Through her practice, she seeks to create a surreal dreamworld where reality and imagination merge, where the familiar meets the unexpected, where she explores the intersection between the recognizable and the surreal, through textile sculptures.