Julie Andrews
Born in Gisborne and lives in Bendigo
Julie Andrews trained in Visual Arts at Latrobe University and RMIT.
She works in a variety of mediums, painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, glass, ceramics, installation, video, textiles, photography, assemblage and whatever best serves the underpinning concept and its context. As a multimedia artist, the concept and the site drive my ideas and she respond directly to the surrounding environment and everyday experiences, embedded in time and memory. Her work, generally large in scale, is subtle in its approach and sits on the edge of recognition and alienation. This manifests itself in the work as obscured layers, blurred lines, and gestural marks, creating a liminal space in which fiction and reality meet, meaning shifts and paradox resides. It is in the relationship between the physical process of making art and the materials and techniques she uses, that she encounters the deeper currents of the work. She wants her work to make a difference, as a whisper to the unconscious of possibilities otherwise unnoticed. Her practice explores inclusivity and accessibility, by attempting to make the invisible visible, the unspoken heard and the lost or forgotten revealed.