Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Julie Rrap has examined representations of the body in art and popular culture for over four decades, often using her own body as the subject.
Julie Rrap: Past Continuous is a solo exhibition featuring the Australian artist's groundbreaking feminist landmark installation Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (1982) in dialogue with new and recent photographic, video, and sculptural works utilising the artist’s body 42 years later.
Julie Rrap
Born 1950, Lismore, New South Wales. Lives and works Sydney.
Julie Rrap has been a major figure in Australian contemporary art for over 40 years. Since the mid-1970s, she has worked across photography, painting, sculpture, performance and video in an ongoing project about representations of the body/her body. Between 1986 and 1994, Rrap lived and worked in Europe where she exhibited in Belgium, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. In the Asia Pacific, her work has appeared in the Auckland Triennial, Jakarta Biennale, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in South Korea and numerous museums in Japan. In Australia, her work has featured in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 16th editions of the Biennale of Sydney; a major survey exhibition titled Body Double at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2007; and the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Rrap's works are held in major public collections in Australia as well as many private collections around the world. She is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne.
FREE.
Note: The MCA Australia is closed Tuesdays.
Note: This exhibition contains nudity in photos.