Name: Julie Montgarrett
Item: Julie Montgarrett
Author: montgarrettj

Julie Montgarrett is a textile artist, curator and once-upon-a-time academic whose practice includes over 100 solo and group exhibitions, site specific installations, commissions and ground-breaking community-based arts projects in Australia and overseas since 1977. She has work represented in major Art Gallery and Museum collections in Australia and internationally including Queensland Art Gallery, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; NGV; Ararat Regional Art Gallery (5); Tamworth Gallery Textile Collection, (5); Wangaratta Art Gallery; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland (VTHC Condolence Banner for the Piper Alpha Oil rig Disaster), amongst other Trade Union Banners.

Her main interests are in the areas of drawing and embroidery to extend the conceptual and spatial possibilities of textile as narrative to question the fraught fictions and fragile facts of dominant Australian histories; to explore doubt and fragility via visual narratives in complex installations.

Qualifications: PhD, Temporary Alignments: fraught fictions and fragile facts. Charles Sturt University (2016); Master of Arts (Visual and Performing Arts), Charles Sturt University (1996); Graduate Diploma of Embroidery, RMIT (1984); Higher Diploma of Teaching (Art/Craft) Melbourne University, (1976); Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage, Charles Sturt University. (2022)

Nominated Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions: 1977 – 2023 *** indicates solo exhibitions

2023 Scene Shift Artist in Residency – BrandX+ CAD Factory @City of Sydney Creative Studios (August + November); 8 More: Margaret Carnegie Gallery; Wagga Art Gallery; Shelter in Place: selected works over 3 decades, Gallery 43, Riverina TAFE, Wagga NSW; Nevertheless She Persisted – exhibition curation, Narrandera Arts Centre, Narrandera, NSW.

2022 Sunflower Collective: Narrandera Arts Centre, Narrandera, NSW.

2021 Artist-in-residence, Create NSW + West Darling Arts, Wentworth, NSW; Sunflower Collective: WayOut Space, Cementa, Kandos, NSW.

2020 -2022 tension[s] 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial touring NSW; Vic; Qld; ACT.

2019 WCT: Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Exhibition. works selected for WTC collection

2018 petite: Wangaratta Miniature Contemporary Textile Exhibition

2017 RE//Creating IWD exhibition, HR Gallop Gallery, CSU; STRATA- Kerry Lodge Project – 10 days on the Island Festival, Tas. Correspondence of Ordinary Places New York /Australia Exchange exhibition – Cementa Festival, Kandos AU (catalogue); Articulate (Sydney);

2016 RE//Constructing – IWD exhibition, H.R. Gallop Gallery, CSU; Land Dialogues: Vanishing Point 2; The Daily Diminish installation for Artlands, National Regional Arts Conference, Dubbo; Vanishing Point 3 site-specific installation for artlands, Dubbo; Correspondence of Ordinary Places public installations in New York/ Australia Exchange Project

2015 ***Temporary Alignments, PhD exhibition; Wagga Art Gallery; RE//Assembling – International Women’s Day 40th Anniversary, HR Gallop Gallery, CSU; On Common Ground – CAD Factory: site-Specific installation across the Murrumbidgee River (see over photo).

2014 ***Circumstantial Evidence – HR Gallop Gallery, CSU, Wagga; Sketchbook Project – Brooklyn Art Museum.

2013 CAD Factory: Grong Grong Creative House: NSW. Arts NSW Artist-in-Residency

2012 ***Navigating Tensions, Links Gallery, Wagga Regional Art Gallery, December.

2011 Sensorial Loop, First Tamworth Regional Art Gallery Textile Triennial, National Touring Exhibition – 8 venues 2011-2013.

***Retrospective Survey exhibition: 9 works from Vic State Craft Collection and Ararat Gallery Collection – Ararat Regional Gallery, Ararat Vic.

2010 Water on Tap: Murray- Darling Catchment Authority; Albury Regional Art Gallery

2008 ***Guessing Games in Borrowed Spaces- Solo Exhibition Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery.

2006 Banners of Pride; Museum of Victoria:

2001 Transference: Wagga Art Gallery invitational exhibition

1999 From Eltham to Memphis; selected works – Victorian State Craft Collection; Craft Victoria.

1998 17th National Craft Acquisition Invitation Exhibition, Museum & Art Gallery of the NT

1997 ***Aqua Profunda: Gallop Gallery, CSU, Wagga; ***Aqua Profunda ANCAA Gallery, Canberra. ACT

1995 Lacquered Textile Competition, Kyoto, Japan

1993 Threads of Journeys, International touring exhibition of Australian Textiles for DFAT

1992 Banners of the World, Glasgow Museum, Scotland

1991 Making Do: Australian Crafts; National Gallery of Victoria. Invitation exhibition

1991-93 Threads of Journeys, International touring exhibition of Australian Textiles for the DFAT

1988 Art At Work, Art and Industry; Museum of Victoria;

*** The Space Between Curtin University, Perth.

1987 Australian Craft Exchange Program, Osaka, Japan

1985 National Survey of Contemporary Embroidery, Jam Factory, Adelaide

Tamworth National Fibre Exhibition; Sculptors as Craftsmen, Invitation exhibition as part of the Sculpture Triennial, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne

1983 Miniature Textiles, Ararat Gallery Biennial textiles exhibition

Fabrics and Fripperies; Crafts Council of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1982 ***Four Hands with Fibre, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Miniature Textiles, Ararat Gallery Biennial Textile

ExhibitionFabric and Fibre, Queensland Art Gallery

1979 Benalla Regional Art Gallery

1978 Collection Pieces, National Gallery of Victoria

Tagged as: collaborations artist-led community projects, commissions, curator

Julie Montgarrett

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