{{short description|Australian painter and educator|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{pp-semi-indef|small=yes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox artist | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1977|3|5}} | birth_place = Gosford, New South Wales, Australia | alma_mater = Sydney College of the Arts | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | movement = | awards = {{plainlist|Archibald Prize (2025)}} | website = {{URL|https://www.juliefragar.com}} }} '''Julie Fragar''' (born 5 March 1977) is an Australian painter and educator. She is the recipient of several awards in Australia, including the 2025 Archibald Prize for portraiture, and the 2017 Ramsay Art Prize Lipman Karas People's Choice Award. Her work has been acquired by major collections, such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery.
==Life== Fragar was born in Gosford, NSW, in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/julie-fragar/this-is-not-a-dress-rehearsal-a-catalogue-of-final-options/|title=Julie Fragar - The National New Australian Art|website=the-national.com.au}}</ref> She grew up in Wee Waa and attended and graduated from Wee Waa High School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://education.nsw.gov.au/news/latest-news/wee-waa-high-grad-wins-archibald-prize/|title=Wee Waa High grad wins Archibald Prize|website=education.nsw.gov.au}}</ref>
== Work == Fragar has been exhibiting her paintings since the 1990s. Her art and research explores the relationships between painterly and personal languages, both biographical and autobiographical. Her paintings are composed as dense agglomerations of fragmented images, “not layers but many images knitted together in one go”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artcollector.net.au/NewDirectionsJulieFragar|title=New directions: Julie Fragar - Art Collector|website=www.artcollector.net.au|language=en|access-date=11 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224144041/http://www.artcollector.net.au/NewDirectionsJulieFragar|archive-date=24 February 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Fragar's earlier paintings drew on her own life and environment as subject matter, combining these with an interest in, and explicit reference to, Gustave Courbet's realism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/129.2010/|title=Lie to Me, (2008) by Julie Fragar :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW|website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au|access-date=11 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061236/https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/129.2010/|archive-date=11 March 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Her work has been acquired by major collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery,<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=8 October 2015 |title=GOMA Q: Julie Fragar in Conversation |url=https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/goma-q-julie-fragar-in-conversation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061502/https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/goma-q-julie-fragar-in-conversation/ |archive-date=11 March 2018 |access-date=11 March 2018 |website= |publisher=Gallery of Modern Art}}</ref> and is represented by [http://www.therenshaws.com.au The Renshaws]', nationally in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Julie Fragar |url=https://www.gccar.com.au/griffith-centre-for-creative-arts-research/members/full/julie-fragar/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061236/https://www.gccar.com.au/griffith-centre-for-creative-arts-research/members/full/julie-fragar/ |archive-date=11 March 2018 |access-date=11 March 2018 |website=Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research |language=en-AU |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
== Awards and honours ==
* In 2005 she won the ABN Amro Emerging Artists Award * In 2014 she won the Pine Rivers Art Award, was included in the Moran Art Prize, the Archibald Prize, and the Gold Art Award.<ref name="bligh" /> * Her 2016 painting ''Goose Chase: All of Us Together Here and Nowhere'', Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/4117854/kilgour-prize-peoples-choice-award-finalist-profile-julie-fragar/send-us-your-news/|title=Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist profile: Julie Fragar|website=The Newcastle Herald |date=25 August 2016 }}</ref> and winner of the 2017 Ramsay Art Prize, Lipman Karas People's Choice Award. The piece explores the story of Antonio de Fraga, her first paternal ancestor to emigrate to Australia in the 19th century.<ref name="ramsay">{{Cite news|url=https://ramsay.artgallery.sa.gov.au/artist/julie-fragar/|title=Julie Fragar - Ramsay Art Prize|work=Ramsay Art Prize|access-date=11 March 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311061236/https://ramsay.artgallery.sa.gov.au/artist/julie-fragar/|archive-date=11 March 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * Another painting in the same series, ''Antonio Departs Flores on the Whaling Tide,'' won the Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award 2016''.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.devonportgallery.com/index02.php?id=12|title=Devonport Regional Gallery - TIDAL|last=Gallery|first=Devonport Regional|website=www.devonportgallery.com|language=en|access-date=11 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024004009/http://www.devonportgallery.com/index02.php?id=12|archive-date=24 October 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * In 2017 she painted the official portrait of Anna Bligh, Queensland's first female premier.<ref name="bligh">{{Cite news |title=Julie Fragar on the art of depicting politics |language=en-AU |work=Brisbane Times |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/julie-fragar-on-the-art-of-depicting-politics-20190412-p51dix.html |access-date=30 July 2022 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> * In 2020 she was a finalist for the Sylvia Jones Prize for Women Artists with ''There Goes the Floor: Self-Portrait 2020'' at the Brisbane Portrait Prize.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Renneisen |first=Lisa |date=2020-08-31 |title=2020 Brisbane Portrait Prize Finalist |url=https://brisbaneportraitprize.org/2020-finalists/there-goes-the-floor-self-portrait-2020-by-julie-fragar/ |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=Brisbane Portrait Prize |language=en-US}}</ref> * In 2025, Fragar won the Archibald Prize for her painting ''Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene)'', a portrait of fellow artist Justene Williams.<ref name="archibald">{{cite news |title=Julie Fragar wins $100,000 Archibald Prize for portrait of fellow artist |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-09/archibald-prize-winner-2025-julie-fragar-justene-williams/105233630 |access-date=9 May 2025 |work=ABC News |date=9 May 2025 |language=en-AU}}</ref>
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