Biograph - Julie Fragar

9 June 2023 - 27 August 2023

Julie Fragar
The Single Bed 2017
oil on board
135 x 100 cm
Collection of Griffith University Art Museum. Purchased 2017
Courtesy of the artist. Photography: Carl Warner

Biograph is the first career survey of Julie Fragar’s work. Mapping more than twenty years of practice, the exhibition assembles key works made between 1998 and 2021, including some previously unexhibited.

Bringing a unique level of psychological enquiry to the activity of painting, Fragar's practice highlights the slippery relationship between reality and fiction. Often superimposing fragments from disparate sources, her work is a careful process of selection, editing and obfuscation that interprets the glut and vastness of post-internet connection through her own experiences, memories and associations. This major retrospective of Fragar's distinctive style has been curated by Jonathan McBurnie and is a Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition.