Provenance
Art Galleries Schubert, Queensland
Private collection, Sydney
Julie Fragar is a Brisbane based artist, whose work is often biographical, engaging the viewer in a lighthearted game of interpretation where sensuously painted fragments of mystery, banality, casual sexuality, drama and tragedy offer significance for the taking. Using photographic source material, her paintings evolve into complex and multi-layered compositions. Wayne Tunnicliffe has said her work ‘incorporates a diaristic-style intimacy.’
‘She is interested in painterly artifice,’ explains Tunnicliffe. “Hers is a snapshot diaristic style and that is very now, so her work represents what is happening at the moment. I was interested in the way she uses photography to capture a snapshot and then how she translates that into paint. She has a broad knowledge of art history, especially realism.’ (P. Gibson, ‘Art Collector’, Issue 55, January - March 2011)