Artist, curator and writer Julie Gough is Trawlwoolway through her maternal family, and her traditional homeland is Tebrikunna in far north eastern Lutruwita/Tasmania. Through video, sculpture and installation, she recovers and re-presents the unsettling, subsumed and conflicting histories of Australia, exploring ephemerality, absence and recurrence. She is also a Curator of First People’s Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. Since 1991, Julie has exhibited in 29 solo exhibitions and more than 180 group exhibitions, including the Liverpool Biennale (UK), the Biennale of Sydney and Ever Present at the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Singapore. Her work is held in many private and public collections.
Julie’s installation, sound and video work Country Waits brings ‘Country as a portrait, as this big entity – it is everything, all humans, all beings, all of us together, Aboriginal people are Country. It is us and we are all alive together.’
