Julie Fragar

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Julie Fragar (born 1977) is an Australian painter and educator. She is the recipient of several awards in Australia, including the 2017 Ramsey Art Prize Lipman Karas People's Choice Award, and her work has been acquired by major collections, such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery.

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Life

Fragar was born in Gosford, NSW, in 1977. [1]

Work

Fragar has been exhibiting her paintings since the 1990s. Her art and research explores the relationships between painterly and personal languages, both biographical and autobiographical. Her paintings are composed as dense agglomerations of fragmented images, “not layers but many images knitted together in one go”. [2] Fragar's earlier paintings drew on her own life and environment as subject matter, combining these with an interest in, and explicit reference to, Gustave Courbet's realism. [3]

Her work has been acquired by major collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery, [4] and is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery (Sydney), NKN Gallery (Melbourne), and Bruce Heiser Gallery (Brisbane). [5]

Awards and Honors

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References

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