Fannying Around With Artist Julie Verhoeven

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Disclaimer: My first interaction with the work of Julie Verhoeven was in 2002, in the form of her fabric-covered Fatbottomedgirls book, which had somehow made its way into my rural school library (filed under 'miscellaneous'). Like countless other students that had thumbed its pages, I was captivated by her fleshy, carnal illustrations that teased the viewer with their visceral spurts of colour and raw suggestions of form. Tits, bums and psychedelia make for a heady…