Julie Hammond

Shimmering with Julie Hammond and Other Inland Empires

By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Julie Hammond is a Vancouver artist whose practice focuses on place and identity. She recently completed her MFA in Contemporary Arts at SFU in 2017, and her grad project is being mounted again this week for the rEvolver festival at the Cultch. Other Inland Empires is the fictionalized real story of Hammond’s quest to learn to surf in Slovakia. The desire to explore the surf culture of a landlocked country came from Hammond’s discovery that the iconic California surfer girl “Gidget” was the daughter of Jewish refugees, prompting Hammond to explore her own Jewish roots…

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