Julie Rrap has worked across a wide range of media throughout her 25-year career, including photography, performance, installation and sculpture. Rrap explores the relationship between image and substance, primarily by examining history and gender.
Julie Rrap / Artist biography
One of the strongest themes Rrap’s work has been the history of representation of the body, particularly that of the female nude. Rrap is also interested in researching the connections between sculptural and painterly representations of the 'nude' and bio-engineered bodies. She often uses her own body as the subject of her photographs and sculptures.
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Rrap’s major exhibition Body Double was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2007. She has had over 45 solo exhibitions in Australia and overseas, and her work has been included in many major international exhibitions. In 2003, Rrap was a finalist in the Australian National Sculpture Prize and in 2001 she received the Hermann's Art Award. Rrap has received Australia Council Fellowships on three occasions and has undertaken residencies in both Italy and France.
