![]() ![]() ^ "New directions: Julie Fragar - Art Collector".^ "Julie Fragar - The National New Australian Art".Her work has been acquired by major collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery, and is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery ( Sydney), NKN Gallery ( Melbourne), and Bruce Heiser Gallery ( Brisbane). 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. In 2017 she painted the official portrait of Anna Bligh, Queensland's first female premier. Another painting in the same series, Antonio Departs Flores on the Whaling Tide, won the Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award 2016. Her 2016 painting Goose Chase: All of Us Together Here and Nowhere, Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist 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. 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. Her paintings are composed as dense agglomerations of fragmented images, “not layers but many images knitted together in one go”. Her art and research explores the relationships between painterly and personal languages, both biographical and autobiographical. Work įragar has been exhibiting her paintings since the 1990s. 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.įragar was born in Gosford, NSW, in 1977. Julie Fragar (born 1977) is an Australian painter and educator. ![]()
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