BIOGRAPHY

I studied psychology for my undergraduate degree, and it was in a Croatia student publication, an anti-establishment review, that my photographs were first published. After my graduation in 1998 I started working as a psychologist, a career that lasted a decade. During this period I also freelanced as a photographer, working for organizations such as Amnesty International, Irish Aid, Fighting Blindness, National Folklore Collection, National Economic and Social Council, FuturesIreland, and more. I also photographed an array of individuals, from the Irish Prime Minister to Hollywood actresses.

In November 2006, I was commissioned by the Irish state agency Combat Poverty (CPA) to undertake the following task: “the production of a bank of photographs depicting poverty in Ireland”. This work resulted in a book of photographs titled Seeing Things.

In February 2008, I completed a Masters in Fine Art in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, receiving a distinction for my work. In 2009, I was selected as an Axis MAstar, “an annual selection of the most promising artist from the UK’s leading MA courses” and shortlisted for the Emerging Visual Artist Award. In June 2010 I was selected as one of the finalists for The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, a worldwide competition for women photographers. Over the last year and a half, I have participated in twelve group exhibitions in UK, Germany, Slovenia and Ireland, and I also had a solo exhibition ‘Seeing Things’ in Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in March 2009. David Trigg wrote in his review published in Circa Magazine, “Jurisic’s evocative images invite contemplation and though they do not explicitly represent poverty in Ireland, her use of metaphor to draw underlying narratives to the surface is extremely engaging… Jurisic’s strength lies in a keen eye for finding poetry in the mundane. By making her own unease the real subject of this exhibition, viewers are in turn challenged to examine their own attitudes towards an uncomfortable and often neglected problem.”