Julia Reinholt
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- Reflection SOLD
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- Once Upon A Time SOLD
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- Remembrance SOLD
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- Medinet Habu GIFTED
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- Remembrance SOLD
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- After the Arab spring SOLD
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- Living Together Separately SOLD
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- Losses & Crosses
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- Between the Lines SOLD
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- Drawing on the past NFS
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- A Free Yemen : Date of Birth 4 June 2011
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- The Question of Faith
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- The City of David
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- Occupation Violation
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- Jerash Jordan GIFTED
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- Bethlehem Besieged SOLD
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- Celestial City SOLD
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- Abiding Faiths SOLD
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- An Illusion of Legality – Gaza 27 December 2008
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- Alone – together – verbunden
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- Anoestic Annexation 2010 GIFTED
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- Gaza Series
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- New Moon GIFTED
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- Overcoming the Fear SOLD
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- The Writing is on the Wall
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- Good Friday NFS
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- Middle Eastern Motif
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- The Old City Jerusalem SOLD
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- ‘Unresolved’ Mixed media SOLD
BDO Northland Painting and Drawing Award — Judged by John Gow, November 2010
About the Artist
Born in Wellington, schooled in Beirut ‚Lebanon from 1959 — 1972 and went to college in London 1974– 1978.
Lived and worked in Austria for nearly ten years, before moving back to the Middle East. The landscapes, the history, the architect and the people inspired Julia to photograph and paint . Twenty six of the forty years away from the land of her birth, were spent in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the West Bank.
The roller coaster of everyday life in West Bank, which swings between elation and despair , started translating the emotions Julia felt, into images of paintings in her head, much of it stored until returning to New Zealand in 1999.
Palestinian landscapes, once serene and tranquil dotted with olive groves and sheep, were rapidly disappearing under urban sprawl, settlements and bypass roads .Photographs and sketches became Julia’ s way of etching history in her mind, a record and a valuable source to draw from.
Julia ‘s photographs and articles were published in the Jordan Times and other English publications.Winning first prize for “The Friends of Archaeology” Photography Competition in Amman in 1994 encouraged her to pursue her love for photography and exhibit her work, and she was soon exhibiting regularly at “The Gallery” in the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan. Subjects ranged from architecture to landscape, to portraiture and underwater photography, in Jordan and neighbouring West Bank & East Jerusalem.
In New Zealand, she had a solo photographic exhibition entitled “Endangered Gems” at Ngatipa Gallery in Kerikeri, and participated in a joint exhibition ” Religious Images “. She has also regularly entered work in the Art Upstairs 150 x 150 exhibitions in Kerikeri.
Julia opened Kaan Zamaan on Kerikeri Road in 2002 . She enters her own paintings in Matariki and other group shows . She had a joint exhibition with Sandra Suleiski entitled ” Same Difference” in 2008. She entered a painting in the Kings Colege Art Sale in August 2011 and has been invited to enter again this year. She also hopes to have an exhibition with Win Stringer in July 2012, and in October 2013 with Sally Bristow.
Julia participated in the Matariki Exhibition at the Copthorn Hotel in 2009 and again in 2010 with her painting ” Between the Lines” in the Art North Exhibition in Paihia.
Her painting ” Wien” was selected for the BDO Drawing and Painting Awards at the Turner Centre in November 2010 — see mention in link at top of page -