Julie Verheoven in 2001, the year she was featured in Nest. Photo: Maurits Sillem/Getty Images Artists’ homes are a fascination unto themselves, and they were a favorite at Nest, the daringly creative shelter magazine. Editor Joseph Holtzman, a painter himself, flew a writer to London to tour Julie Verhoeven and Fabio Almeida’s flat after reading about them in Britain’s Observer magazine. It appeared in Nest 12, in the spring of 2001.
Photo: Courtesy The Best of Nest, by Todd Oldham. Published by Phaidon Press, 2020.Text: Michael Cunningham. Photo: Jason Oddy. Were you nervous to have it photographed? If I have a choice in my studio, it’s the same there. It’s a bit like cocooning oneself from outside distractions. I just need to surround myself with visual stimuli, where I start to make connections as I try to find a lead and some momentum. Once I’ve found a pace, I then throw reams of brown parcel paper over everything that surrounds me, to obliterate the visual prompts and noisy mess. I don’t hang it, I crudely throw it over everything, with a little bit of masking tape, when required.