Julie Rrap

Julie Rrap (also known as Julie Parr, Julie Brown or Julie Brown-Rrap, born 1950) is an Australian contemporary artist. She was born in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. Her family relocated to a small town, Nerang, in the Hinterlands off the Gold Coast, Queensland, which is where she grew up with her sister and brothers including Mike Parr- an artist who she often collaborates with. In 1976, Rrap married Bill Brown, a painter.[1] Julie Rrap then lived in France and Belgium between 1986 and 1994.[2]

Julie Rrap
Born
Julie Parr

1950
Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationUniversity of Queensland,

National Art School at East Sydney Technical College, University of Sydney, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education,

Monash University
Known forPhotography,

painting, sculpture, video,

drawing

Artist career

Rrap's artistic career began in the 1970s where she explored painting, performance, photography, sculpture and video. In Julie Rraps early career during the 1970s she was running a photographic business with John Delacour who is also a photographer. The business mainly specialised in reproductions of magazines, catalogues, and fine art books. In the 1980s Rrap focused a lot of her time at universities and art schools such as the Australian Centre for Photography, Alexander Mackie College, Medowbank and East Sydney Technical College, and Sydney College of the Arts, providing lectures in art and design, painting, photography, and photo-media. Julie exhibited her first solo exhibition as Julie Brown in 1982, 'Disclosures: A Photographic Construct’ held at the Central Street Gallery. Rrap frequently travels between Europe and Australia for exhibitions and the creation of her works and is now represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne.[1]

Influences

Rrap’s artistic influences throughout her career have always been the human form and how it is represented in media and society, particularly females in Western Society. Julie Rrap uses this influence to "…poke fun at the stereotypical representations of women transforming these characters into active agents for change." – Julie Rrap. Using her body, suggestions of the body and representations of the body to complete her work.[2]

Education

A Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, Classic and Fine Arts, completed between 1969 and 1971 at the University of Queensland. Rrap then went to the National Art School at East Sydney Technical College in 1974 to study painting and drawing. In 1975 Rrap worked with members of a performance group (Alex Danko, Mike Parr, Noel Sheridan, Joan Grounds and Tim Burns) from the University of Sydney, as an external student in the ‘Tin Sheds’ art workshops. Rrap then studied photo-media at Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in Sydney during 1976. In 2010 Rrap completed her PhD at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.[1]

Awards and honours
  • 1986, Cite Des Arts- Paris and Power Institute, University of Sydney[3]
  • 1989, Fellowship Grant- Australia Council for the Arts
  • 1995, Multi-Year Fellowship- Australia Council for the Arts
  • 1997, Cite Des Arts- Paris and AGNSW Studio
  • 1999, Project Grant- Australia Council for the Arts
  • 2001, Hermans Art Award
  • 2002, Fellowship Grant- Australia Council for the Arts
  • 2007, Project Grant- Australia Council for the Arts
  • 2008, Redlands Art Prize- Mosman Gallery
  • 2009, Clemenger Contemporary Art Award- National Gallery of Victoria
  • 2009, National Artists’ Self-portrait Prize Professional Membership- University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.

Solo exhibitions
  • 2004 Soft Targets, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney[4]
  • 2005 Soft Targets, ARC One gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2005 Gallery, Victoria, Australia
  • 2006 Fall Out, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
  • 2007 Embodied, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
  • 2007 Body Double, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • 2009 Escape Artist: Castaway, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
  • 2010 OuterSpace, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2010 360° Self-Portrait, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
  • 2011 Julie Rrap: Off Balance, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW
  • 2012 Loaded, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
  • 2014 Rrapture: Julie Rrap, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
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References
  1. Lynn, Victoria (2008). Julie Rrap : body double. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art. ISBN 9780975190142.
  2. A, Elizabeth. "Brooklyn Museum". Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  3. "Sydney College of the Arts". Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  4. "Roslyn Oxley 9". Retrieved 19 March 2015.
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