Julie Hamisky (b. 1975) suspends the delicacies of nature in time with her singular electroplating technique. Born in Fontainebleau and raised in the countryside south of Paris, she learned to work with plaster as a teenager in the studio of her father, sculptor Kim Hamisky. She began her art studies in Paris at the ESAG Penninghen School and the ATEP École d’Art et de Communication Visuelle, and during a formative year in Michoacán, Mexico, she studied lost-wax casting, traditional goldsmithery, jewelry, and blacksmithing under renowned sculptors James Metcalf and Ana Pellicer. She returned to France in 1999, where she worked in the studio of her grandparents, the celebrated French artist duo Les Lalanne. She lives and works in Montreuil, France, a growing artists’ hub south of Paris.