About

Yulia Makeyeva is a multidisciplinary artist. She grew up in Russia and lives in Jersey, Channel Islands since 2017. Yulia turned her full attention to art practice at the end of 2019.

Through Jersey-specific context she explores memory and intangible cultural heritage, boundaries and borders.

Her two main long term art and research projects are the history of knitting in Jersey in 16th-18th centuries and the impact of WWII in Jersey – the history and aftermath of German occupation of Jersey 1940-1945, with particular interest in the phenomenon of Organization Todt labour camps emploing conscripted, forced and slave laboures from occupied territories for the construction of fortifications and military infrusrtucture.

Yulia is in her second and final year of MA Art and Politics at the Goldsmiths University, London, where the program includes modules Memory and Justice in Post-Conflict Societies; Theory. History. Event.; Counter-Mapping. The Politics of Space.; Art.War.Terror; Embodiment Experience (theories of affect).

Her sculpture Backdrop> was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024>

Sculpture Any Time.Now> was selected by the human rights organisation International Memorial> and Gulag.cz> via the open call in May 2022. After the opening exhibition in Prague on August 5th 2022, this work is currently a part of a touring exhibition Sandarmoh. Where Trees Have Faces>.

Yulia was granted a commission for the history of knitting in Jersey by Jersey Heritage>, commencing October 2025.

Get in touch
yuliamakeyeva@gmail.com