Julie Fordham is an Atlanta-based mixed media artist whose work explores feminine identity, mental health, sexuality, and personal narrative through richly layered portraiture and textile-based processes. Combining painting, embroidery, stitching, lace, text, and sculptural surface techniques, Fordham creates emotionally intimate works that balance delicacy with psychological intensity.

Centered primarily around female figures, her compositions merge symbolism, ornamentation, and contrast—pairing bright color palettes with darker emotional themes, rigid typography with soft organic forms, and painted imagery with hand-sewn textures. Through needlework, layered materials, and intricate surface manipulation, Fordham builds tactile environments filled with halos, plants, animals, and symbolic motifs that reflect vulnerability, memory, and emotional complexity.

Fordham studied Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited throughout Atlanta and Nashville, including exhibitions connected to the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford, Georgia. Her work has also appeared in public art initiatives and publications, continuing to expand a multidisciplinary practice rooted in intimacy, craft, and emotional storytelling.