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 2016 painting Goose Chase: All of Us Together Here and Nowhere, Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist [4] and winner of the 2017 Ramsay Art Prize Lipman Karas People's Choice Award, explores the story of Antonio de Fraga, her first paternal ancestor to emigrate to Australia in the 19th century. [5] Another painting in the same series, Antonio Departs Flores on the Whaling Tide, won the Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award 2016. [6] In 2017 she painted the official portrait of Anna Bligh, Queensland's first female premier. [7]

She also won the ABN Amro Emerging Artists Award (2005) and the Pine Rivers Art Award (2014), and has been included in the Moran Art Prize, the Archibald Prize, and the Gold Art Award. [7]

Her work has been acquired by major collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery, [8] and is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery (Sydney), NKN Gallery (Melbourne), and Bruce Heiser Gallery (Brisbane). [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Julie Fragar - The National New Australian Art". the-national.com.au.
  2. ↑ "New directions: Julie Fragar - Art Collector". www.artcollector.net.au. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Lie to Me, (2008) by Julie Fragar :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist profile: Julie Fragar". The Newcastle Herald.
  5. ↑ "Julie Fragar - Ramsay Art Prize". Ramsay Art Prize. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  6. ↑ Gallery, Devonport Regional. "Devonport Regional Gallery - TIDAL". www.devonportgallery.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Julie Fragar on the art of depicting politics". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  8. ↑ "GOMA Q: Julie Fragar in Conversation". Gallery of Modern Art. 8 October 2015. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Julie Fragar". Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
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