Julie Gough

Julie Gough

Julie Gough is an installation, sound, and video artist, writer, and a curator of First People’s Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. Gough’s research and art practice involves uncovering and re-presenting subsumed and often conflicting histories  often referring to  her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people.    Julie is Trawlwoolway through  her maternal family, and her Traditional homeland is Tebrikunna  in  far north eastern Lutruwita / Tasmania, her Briggs-Johnson-Gower family  have lived  in the  Latrobe / East Devonport region of the island since the 1840s.  Julie’s paternal heritage is mostly Scottish and Irish.

Julie holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania (2001), Masters degree (Visual Arts) University of London (Goldsmiths College)(1998), BA (Visual Arts) Curtin University West Australia (1994), BA Honours (Visual Arts) First Class, University of Tasmania (1995) and BA (Prehistory/ English Literature), University of West Australia (1987).

Since 1991 Julie has exhibited in more than 200 exhibitions including: Rivus: Biennale of Sydney, 2022; Ever Present, National Gallery of Australia and National Gallery of Singapore, 2021-2022; Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2021; Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum, NSW, 2021; TENSE PAST, TMAG, 2019; Divided Worlds, Adelaide Biennial, 2018; Defying Empire, NGA (National Gallery of Australia), 2017; THE NATIONAL, Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW, 2017; With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2016; UNDISCLOSED, NGA, 2012; Clemenger Award, National Gallery of Victoria, 2010; Biennale of Sydney, 2006; Liverpool Biennial, UK, 2001; Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995.

Publications include: Tense Past (Tebrikunna Press, 2021); Fugitive History (UWA Press, 2018); Shale (A Published Event, 2018).

Gough’s art works are held in many private and most Australian public collections including The National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Art Gallery of South Australia, The Art Gallery of West Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, National Museum of Australia, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston.

For more detailed information refer to the online cv: https://juliegough.net/cv/

Julie is represented by Bett Gallery, Hobart. https://www.bettgallery.com.au/