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“the artist [as] a conduit through which lost things are recovered”.

Birds of Heaven (2005), Ben Okri

‘when everything connects, the challenge is to follow the strands to where they lead and accept what they say and where they take you’

Vera Frenkel

“Winckler’s work sings with love and art, and a delicacy and care that are rare and moving. She truly brings back to life some essence that had vanished. There is once again presence in the absence – in these haunting faces, their eyes dark and sunken, their expressions so recognisably and universally human.”

Review of Traces exhibition

Clare Best in The London Magazine, 3 May, 2012

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Dr. Julia Winckler is a photographer, writer and principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, School of Art and Media.

Julia’s interdisciplinary research focuses on archival traces, memory and migration narratives and for her Phd she explored the history of the imagination and memory of place. In her archival and practice-led research, she investigates physical and cultural geographies, histories and memories, reconnecting and reactivating fragments in order to establish links between past and present, excavating silenced narratives.

As an experienced arts education consultant, facilitator and curriculum developer, Julia worked with kaitak, Centre for Research and Development in Visual Arts, a division of Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University between 2014-2018.

Julia has exhibited widely, including at the Motorenhalle, Dresden (2018), the Brunei Gallery, SOAS (Retracing Heinrich Barth, 2008) and the Austrian Cultural Forum, London (Traces, 2012). She was co-researcher on the SSHRC funded Children of the City: from street to playground (2013-2017), which mobilized a collection of archival photographs of urban street scenes taken in Toronto at the turn of the last century and co-curated an exhibition at City of Toronto Archives Gallery (2016-17).

She also curated Photographic Memories – Lost Corners of Paris: The Children of Cité Lesage-Bullourde, and exhibition by Marilyn Stafford for the Alliance Française Gallery, Toronto (2017) and, in 2020, for the Sorbonne, Paris.