Julie Gough Explained

Julie Gough
Birth Place:Melbourne
Nationality:Australian
Field:Sculpture

Julie Gough (born 1965) is an artist, writer and curator based in Tasmania, Australia.

Early life and education

Gough was born in 1965 in Melbourne.[1] Her paternal heritage is Scottish and Irish, while her maternal Aboriginal heritage is of the Trawlwoolway people of Tebrikunna, and her lineage has been traced to her ancestor, great-great-great-grandmother Dolly Dalrymple. She has lived mostly in Hobart, Tasmania, since late 1993.[2]

In 1986, Gough completed a Bachelor of Arts (pre-history and anthropology) at the University of Western Australia.[3] [4] In 1989 she earned a Diploma of art at St Brigid's and Northbridge TAFE Colleges in Perth, and from 1991 to 1993 studied for a Bachelor of Visual Arts, at Curtin University in Perth.[1]

In 1994, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Art at the University of Tasmania. After completing a Master's degree in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London (on a Samstag scholarship from the University of South Australia[1]), in 1998, Gough moved on to her doctorate, which she earned in 2001 at the University of Tasmania. In her thesis, entitled Transforming histories: The visual disclosure of contentious pasts,[4] she explored her family history and heritage. Her thesis focused on reinterpreting the past via the artistic display of disparate objects which reframe narratives.[5]

Career

Artwork

Gough's sculptural works have included the use of kitsch bric-a-brac sourced from op shops, often featuring racist or dated motifs.[6] Using these relics in her art is about challenging and subverting their historical meanings.[7]

In 2001, her work, Driving Black Home (2000) contrasted with John Glover's colonial depiction of Tasmania, as part of the Australian Collection Focus series at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Gallery withheld Benjamin Law's busts of Woureddy and Trucaninny from the exhibition at Gough's request,[8] noting their history as anthropological objects.

For the bicentenary of Federation, Gough was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria to create an artwork in response to Emanuel Phillips Fox's The Landing of Captain Cook.[9] The resulting installation, Chase, a suspended ti-tree forest with symbolic red cloth, was reviewed by Gabriella Coslovich as sitting in an "...uneasy relationship..." in display alongside Fox's painting.[10] Margaretta Pos reviewed the work as having stillness and menace, with a sense of "...redcoats in the shadows."[11] One of the Gallery's deputy art directors, Frances Lindsay, described the work as extending the narrative from the painting, to the unseen context of displacement of Aboriginal people.[12]

A survey exhibition of her work entitled Tense Past: Julie Gough opened at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 2019.[13]

Other activities

In September 2001, Gough presented on the "Archaeology of nostalgia" at the Portraiture and Place symposium (jointly run by the National Portrait Gallery and the University of Tasmania).[14]

She worked as a curator of Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria from 2003 until December 2004,[15] and was a lecturer in visual arts at the James Cook University in 2005.[16]

Gough's undertook a residency at Woolmers Estate in 2018, researching her familial connections to Norfolk Plains, Woolmers and Brickendon estates.[17]

Gough has/had a part-time role at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.[18]

Recognition and honours

In 2020 Gough featured as one of six Indigenous artists in the ABC TV series This Place: Artist Series. The series is a partnership between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Gallery of Australia, in which the producers travelled to the countries of "some of Australia's greatest Indigenous artists to share stories about their work, their country, and their communities".[19] [20]

Gough was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021.[21]

Awards and funding

Exhibitions

Solo

Group

Collections

Gough's work is held in a number of private and public collections, including:[2]

References

  1. Web site: Julie Gough b.1965 . Design and Art Australia Online . 27 August 2019 . 29 December 2021.
  2. Web site: Biography . Julie Gough . 3 January 2012 . 29 December 2021.
  3. News: Compelling family work - ACUADS: Images of Success - A special advertising report. 25 July 2001. The Australian. A04.
  4. Web site: full cv . Julie Gough . 3 January 2012 . 29 December 2021.
  5. Transforming histories: the visual disclosure of contentious pasts. Gough. Julie. University of Tasmania. 2001. phd.
  6. Ryan. Judith. June 2013. Disquiet and resistance in the art of Julie Gough. Artlink. 33. 2 . 72–76. Informit.
  7. News: A case of junk art. Lewis. Felicity. 7 August 1997. Herald-Sun. 51.
  8. News: The Big Idyll. James. Bruce. 12 May 2001. Sydney Morning Herald. 12.
  9. News: Saturday Extra - NGV squared. Timms. Peter. 19 October 2002. The Age. 6.
  10. News: Supplement - Art transplant. Coslovich. Gabriella. 25 October 2002. The Age. 6.
  11. News: Hip to be square. Pos. Margaretta. 8 June 2003. Sunday Tasmanian. 41.
  12. News: Metropolitan - Impressive edifice puts art into focus. Dennis. Anthony. 30 October 2002. The Sydney Morning Herald. 15.
  13. Book: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2016-2017. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. 2017. Tasmania. 16. 0311-3663.
  14. News: Women portraitists all the rage. 3 September 2001. The Canberra Times. 13.
  15. News: Mixed media. Backhouse. Megan. 6 July 2005. The Age. 6.
  16. News: Budding artists' works on show. 2 November 2005. Townsville Sun. 2.
  17. Web site: Residencies 2017 . Arts Tasmania. 2018-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200809083506/https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/funding/decisions/residencies_2017. 9 August 2020.
  18. Web site: Artist Julie Gough on untold histories. Browning. Daniel. 2019-07-27. The Saturday Paper. 2019-07-27.
  19. Web site: Whitford . Maddie . Producers reflect on profound experience walking with Indigenous artists on country . ABC News . 13 April 2020 . 14 April 2020.
  20. Web site: This Place: Artist Series. ABC iview . 6 March 2018 . 14 April 2020.
  21. Web site: Fellow Profile: Julie Gough . 2024-08-04 . Australian Academy of the Humanities . en-AU.
  22. News: Indigenous top grants. Lawnham. Patrick. 25 June 2003. The Australian. 32.
  23. News: Townsville artist honoured. McLean. Sandra. 24 August 2006. The Courier-Mail. 36.
  24. News: Visual arts skills tell triple success story. 9 September 2006. The Courier-Mail. E21.
  25. News: New art venue. 13 March 2007. Western Suburbs Weekly.
  26. News: Clever application of metaphors wins art prize. Crawford. Kate. 19 November 2009. Mosman & Lower North Shore Daily. 25.
  27. News: Sculptor wins $30k scholarship. Lohberger. Loretta. 3 August 2017. Hobart Mercury. 7.
  28. Web site: Mullins . Sarah . Indigenous art and culture celebration, Tarnanthi Festival 2021, launched at Art Gallery of SA . ABC News. . 15 October 2021 . 29 December 2021.
  29. Web site: Higgins . Jo . Art Gallery of South Australia's Tarnanthi festival puts Aboriginal voices at its centre and shows institutions a path forward . ABC News. . 13 November 2021 . 29 December 2021.
  30. Web site: Bind, (2008) by Julie Gough :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. 2018-03-04.
  31. Web site: Dark Valley, Van Diemen's Land, (2008) by Julie Gough :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. 2018-03-04.
  32. Web site: Human Nature and Material Culture. Julie. GOUGH. artsearch.nga.gov.au. 2018-03-04.
  33. Web site: She was sold for one guinea. Julie. GOUGH. artsearch.nga.gov.au. 2018-03-04.
  34. Web site: The chase. Julie. GOUGH. artsearch.nga.gov.au. 2018-03-04.
  35. Web site: Some Tasmanian Aboriginal children living with non-Aboriginal people before 1840. Julie. GOUGH. artsearch.nga.gov.au. 2018-03-04.
  36. Web site: Hunting Ground (Haunted) & (Pastoral) Van Diemen's Land. Angus. GOUGH, Julie ASHTON. artsearch.nga.gov.au. 2018-03-04.
  37. Web site: Imperial Leather Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  38. Web site: Chase Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  39. Web site: Leeawuleena Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  40. Web site: 'Night Sky Journey' and 'Tracking Self' Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  41. Web site: Kelp water carrier Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  42. Web site: Drift Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  43. Web site: Lifebearer Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  44. Web site: Seam Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  45. Web site: Land and sky from sea 1 Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  46. Web site: Land and sky from sea 2 Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.
  47. Web site: Observance Julie Gough~Trawlwoolway NGV View Work. www.ngv.vic.gov.au. en-AU. 2018-03-04.

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