Julie Derbyshire works in the genres of landscape and still life photography. Her practice is research based and process led. Informed by art history and by her own lived experience, she explores themes of fragility, transience and the universality of our shared human condition. She employs the medium of photography as the final distillation of a creative process that encompasses acts of fabrication, manipulation and disruption and experiments with different techniques, materials and visualisations to suit each series of work she makes. Derbyshire approaches photography as an instrument of illusion, to beguile rather than document. By exploring the potential of the photographic object to conjure new meaning, she invites the viewer to reflect and to question what lies beyond the image.