Julie Rrap

Julie Rrap
Born	Julie Parr 1950 Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Education	University of Queensland, National Art School at East Sydney Technical College, University of Sydney, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Monash University
Known for	Photography, painting, sculpture, video, drawing

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

Photography, painting, sculpture, video,

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

Julie Rraps 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.

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.

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 Shed’s’ 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.

2009, National Artists’ Self-portrait Prize Professional Membership- University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.

2009, Clemenger Contemporary Art Award- National Gallery of Victoria

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