Julie Rrap b. 1950

Also known as Julie Brown-Rrap
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Julie Rrap works in the mediums of photography, painting, sculpture, performance and video and focuses upon representations of the body, in particular the female body in Western art.
Tags: Body, Feminism
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exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Snare
Date
1996
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Investigation of 'the body’ for a show which takes a satirical approach to how we view ourselves and how our bodies function.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation, Photography
exhibited at
Julie Rrap
Date
1996
Place
Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BCAG exhibition archive;

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
The Best Face Value for Autumn: Work from the collection
Date
3 March 1995 - 7 May 1995
Place
Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Opened by Joan Brassil, 8 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales: Hang No. 1
Date
27 February 1995 - 16 April 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

See also the catalogue for Review

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Out of the Void : Mad and Bad Women. Art from the Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery
Date
16 February 1995 - 25 April 1995
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
Description

touring exhibition. QAG show opened by Dale Spender, 15 February 1995. Out of the void: a day of celebration held 4 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Feminist, National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Snare: Julie Rrap: works 1991-1995
Date
1995
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Snare: Julie Rrap: works 1991-1995. South Yarra, Vic: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 1995
1 folded sheet (5p): ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Break and enter: the nature of femininity
Date
1994
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Julie Brown-Rrap is a significant Australian artist, whose work explores the role of women in art. This installation, created in 1986, reviews the representation of women as subject in the 19th century in European art.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Julie Rrap
Date
1994
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

An installation on the subjects of identity and the body.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Lyn, Victoria, 'Identity and the body: the work of Julie Rrap’ Look Magazine, 1994, pp12-13.
[2]p: col cill ; 28 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
City of Lake Macquarie Charlestown Square Art Prize 1991
Date
8 November 1991 - 15 December 1991
Place
Charlestown Square, Charlestown, Newcastle, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Resistance: an installation by Julie Brown-Rrap
Date
1991
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Exhibition highlights an on-going desire to somehow entangle the self (as artist, as body) within critical debates that centre themselves around the oppositions of power (powerful/powerless).

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Brown-Rrap, Julie, Resistance : an installation. South Brisbane, QLD: Queensland Art Gallery, c1991.
1 folded sheet (6 p.) : ill

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Biennale of Sydney: Origins, Originality + Beyond
Date
16 May 1986 - 6 July 1986
Description

Nick Waterlow was artistic director of the 1986 BOS ...

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3808
exhibited at
Julie Brown-Rrap: thief's journal
Date
1985
Place
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/publications/

Exhibition Catalogue:
Julie Brown-Rrap: thief’s journal, Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art, 1985
Fold out, 6 sided, A4 card; bio; bib

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo A, Major Solo, Mixed media

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Related collections
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)