Julie Gough
Julie Gough is an established artist working predominantly in sculpture and installation art.
Julie holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Tasmania and is a lecturer in creative arts at James Cook University, Townsville. She has an extensive exhibition history with solo and group shows and installations, with particular focus in Melbourne and Tasmania. She has also taken part in major group exhibitions such as the 2006 Biennale of Sydney; 2006 Tamworth Textile Biennale; 1999 Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art; 1998 Adelaide Biennial and 1995 Perspecta. Internationally, Julie has exhibited in England, the United States, Austria, Mauritius and Noumea.
She has been awarded a number of residencies and awards, including a Greene St residency in New York, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts; Commonwealth Arts and Craft Award residency in Mauritius; and a Samstag Scholarship where she completed a Masters degree at Goldsmith College in London. In 2006, Julie was awarded a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship and a State Library of Tasmania Research Fellowship.
Julie’s work is represented in public collections throughout Australia including the National Gallery of Australia; the National Gallery of Victoria; the Art Gallery of Western Australia; the Art Gallery of South Australia; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; the Mildura Arts Centre; the Tamworth Regional Gallery; the Flinders University Gallery and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Her work is also held in private collections.
The majority of Julie’s work is influenced by her Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage. Using found and constructed objects from various sources, her work involves uncovering and re-presenting historical stories as part of an ongoing project that questions and re-evaluates the impact that the past has on our lives.
Julie was awarded a two-year Fellowship from the Australia Council’s Visual Arts Board in 2006. She will research and create sculptural/installation works that explore concepts of diaspora and homeland for a solo exhibition at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne in 2007. She will also complete residencies at several institutions across Australia, with some resulting works to be exhibited at the South Australian School of Art Gallery; Turner Galleries Western Australia; and Bett Gallery in Hobart in 2007 and 2008.