Julienne Harris | Street Smart #2
Street Smart #2
Julienne Harris
110 x 100 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Signed verso
$ 6,000
Julienne Gwyneth Harris was born in Sydney 1953 and currently lives and works in Blackheath, NSW. She is largely known as Julie.
Harris studied at the National Art School, East Sydney Technical College 1972-1975. From 1976-1979 she continued her studies in restoration and water gilding with Paul Levi and Bourlets (Sotheby’s) in London, UK
She is an abstract painter with an interest in the materiality of paint and the processes of abstraction.
Exhibition history:
· Harris has been exhibiting regularly in Sydney and interstate since the 90’s with the then Legge gallery, Richard Martin Gallery, the Hughes gallery and Conny Dietzschold gallery .
· She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including Hong Kong Art Fairs and Sydney and Melbourne Art Fairs and has been included in various curated exhibitions.
· Harris received the Artlink Prize at the Mosman Gallery in 2002
· A residency at Bundanon in 2002.
· A winner of the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize in 2008,
· A survey exhibition curated by the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery which toured some of Australia’s finest regional galleries between 2007-2009.
· She has been a Wynne Prize finalist
· Her paintings have been exhibited in previous Salon des Refuses and Year in Art exhibitions at the SH Ervin Gallery.
· She was the recipient of the Moya Dyring AGNSW studio at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2009
· She was included in a working tour of New Zealand’s North Island by invitation from Artist Profile Magazine.
· Harris was the winner of the Fleurieu Landscape Prize in 2011
· She was artist in residence at Taronga Zoo.
· She was awarded the Kedumba Drawing Prize in 2014.
In 2017 she exhibited ‘The Strip Suite” at the Blue Mountains City Gallery.
· In 2019 she was awarded the KAAF art prize (Korean Australian Arts Foundation)
· Many of her works are in collections in Australia, Germany, the US and Scotland
