JULIET & JAMIE GUTCH developed their artistic style and direction independently before meeting in 2001. Over the last nine years they have increasingly been working in partnership on commissions and exhibitions.

Juliet Gutch studied Russian and English at the University of Birmingham. She spent time in Russia with the BBC Seton-Watson scholarship and had various pieces of writing published in the Critical Quarterly. She developed her passion for mobiles when she lived in Italy for several years. Her first exhibition was of poetry and sculpture at Villa Montefano (www.galeazza.com) in Emilia Romagna in 2001. Since returning to the UK she has focused on mobile making and has exhibited her work in galleries around the UK and in London at the Curwen & New Academy Gallery (group shows Autumn 2008, June 2009) and Jaggedart (groups shows Aug 2009, Jan 2010 and coming up, a large-scale installation piece for the Spring Show 2010). She was also showcased at the shop at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park as well as completing commissions for St. George’s Hospital in London and a dance studio in Canary Wharf.

Jamie Gutch studied French and Italian at Cambridge University and established a studio in Stepney, London, after graduation. For eight years he worked on large scale commissions for companies such as BP, the West Middlesex and Milton Keynes Hospitals, as well as for private clients. Represented throughout this period by the Curwen & New Academy Gallery, two key developments during the early years of his artistic practise were the ‘figurative mobile’, hand carved wooden mobiles based on the human form and ‘immobiles’, mobiles constructed according to the classic principles of mobile making but which are then deprived of movement in some way. He is now head of Italian at Harrogate Grammar School.

They have two young daughters and live in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.