Julie Fragar Explained

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.

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

• In 2005 she won the ABN Amro Emerging Artists Award
• In 2014 she won the Pine Rivers Art Award, was included in the Moran Art Prize, the Archibald Prize, and the Gold Art Award.
• Her 2016 painting Goose Chase: All of Us Together Here and Nowhere, Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist^[6] and winner of the 2017 Ramsay Art Prize, Lipman Karas People's Choice Award. The piece explores the story of Antonio de Fraga, her first paternal ancestor to emigrate to Australia in the 19th century.^[7]
• Another painting in the same series, Antonio Departs Flores on the Whaling Tide, won the Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award 2016.^[8]
• In 2017 she painted the official portrait of Anna Bligh, Queensland's first female premier.^[9]
• In 2020 she was a finalist for the Sylvia Jones Prize for Women Artists with There Goes the Floor: Self-Portrait 2020 at the Brisbane Portrait Prize.^[10]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Julie Fragar - The National New Australian Art. the-national.com.au.
2. Web site: New directions: Julie Fragar - Art Collector. www.artcollector.net.au. en. 11 March 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170224144041/http://www.artcollector.net.au/NewDirectionsJulieFragar. 24 February 2017. dmy-all.
3. Web site: Lie to Me, (2008) by Julie Fragar :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. 11 March 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061236/https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/129.2010/. 11 March 2018. dmy-all.
4. Web site: 8 October 2015 . GOMA Q: Julie Fragar in Conversation . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061502/https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/goma-q-julie-fragar-in-conversation/ . 11 March 2018 . 11 March 2018 . Gallery of Modern Art.
5. Web site: Julie Fragar . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061236/https://www.gccar.com.au/griffith-centre-for-creative-arts-research/members/full/julie-fragar/ . 11 March 2018 . 11 March 2018 . Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research . en-AU . dmy-all.
6. Web site: Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist profile: Julie Fragar. The Newcastle Herald.
7. News: Julie Fragar - Ramsay Art Prize. Ramsay Art Prize. 11 March 2018. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061236/https://ramsay.artgallery.sa.gov.au/artist/julie-fragar/. 11 March 2018. dmy-all.
8. Web site: Devonport Regional Gallery - TIDAL. Gallery. Devonport Regional. www.devonportgallery.com. en. 11 March 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20161024004009/http://www.devonportgallery.com/index02.php?id=12. 24 October 2016. dmy-all.
9. News: Julie Fragar on the art of depicting politics . en-AU . Brisbane Times . 30 July 2022 . dmy-all.
10. Web site: Renneisen . Lisa . 2020-08-31 . 2020 Brisbane Portrait Prize Finalist . 2024-09-13 . Brisbane Portrait Prize . en-US.