Biography
Julia Ciccarone was born in Melbourne in 1967. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of Arts in 1988. Julia lived and worked in Italy as the recipient of the Verdaccio Studio awarded by the Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council. She also held residency at Arts Victoria in the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies. Since 1998, Julia has lectured in painting and drawing at the Western Institute of Technology and Monash University.
Julia has completed a number of commissioned portraits in recent years and she was awarded the Melbourne Savage Club 2007 Invitation Art Prize for Painting. In an exploration of her work through new media she co-wrote and produced a short film 67 directed by Kasimir Burgess, which was selected for the 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Julia currently lives and works in Melbourne.
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Solo Exhibitions
2009
- Nostalgia, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2007
- When you Write on Water, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005
- Memories of Things that Never Happened, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002
- La Vita e un Sogno, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2000
- Comfortably Numb, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
- Remembering the Future, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide
1998
- Selected Works, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide
1996
- Fictitious Voyages, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1994
- Viva Gli Sposi, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
- Archibald Prize 2013, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012
- Blue Chip XIV: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
- Body of Knowledge, The University of Melbourne, The Art of Teaching: Clinical Schools, Curated by Dr. Jacqueline Healy, The Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
- Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
- Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australia Museum, Adelaide and National Archives, Canberra
- Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
- Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2011
- Where there is water... Curated by Meryl Ryan. 9th Dec 2011 - 5th Feb 2012. Lake Maquarie City Art Gallery
2009
- The Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
2007
- Melbourne Savage Club 2007 Invitation Art Prize for Painting Exhibition, Victoria
2006
- Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2004
- The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australia Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and touring
- The Sir John Sulman Art Prize Finalist
2003
- Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
- Mystic Medusa on Art, Newcontemporaries, QVB
- Heat, Noosa Regional Gallery
2001
- Stitches Fare Il Punto, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
- Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria
2000
- Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and touring
1999
- We are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre and touring internationally
1998
- In absentia: Julia Ciccarone and Anne Wallace, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
- Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington
- Flesh, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
- Still Life and Landscape: Gabrielle Brauer and Julia Ciccarone, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
- 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
- Mornington Peninsula National Drawing Prize, Morninqton Peninsula Gallery, Mornington
- Site and Sensibility, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
- Food Ex, 21st National Food and Beverage Exhibition, Nippon Convention Centre, Tokyo
- Australia Felix, Benalla Easter Arts Festival, Victoria
- Mulch and Metaphors: The Garden in Contemporary Art, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Morninqton
1996
- Colonial Post-Colonial, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
- Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria
- Food in Art, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington
- Works on paper, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1995
- Lo Spazio (The Space), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and touring
- Our Parents' Children, National Gallery of Victoria
- Focus: 17 Australian Women, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
1993
- Interiors, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1991
- Moet and Chandon Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and touring
- Contemporary Landscapes, Deakin University Gallery, Geelong
- Landscapes, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
- Group Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1990
- Moet and Chandon Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and touring
- Change, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne
- Now look this is serious, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne
- Witness, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1989
- Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Queensland
- Heidelberg and Heritage, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne
- BP Australia Acquisitive Prize, Melbourne
1988
- Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
- 9x5 The Wilderness Society Exhibition, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne
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Collections
- Monash University, Melbourne
- Artbank, Sydney
- BHP, Melbourne
- Coopers and Ly brand, Melbourne
- Edith Cowan University Latrobe University, Melbourne
- Melbourne University, Melbourne
- Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
- Monash University, Melbourne
- Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
- National Film and Sound Archive
- Parliament House, Canberra
- The Melbourne Savage Club, Victoria
- Wesfarmers Pty Ltd, Perth
- Private Colle ctions, Australia
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Commissions
- Portrait of Professor Steve Wesselingh
- St Vincent's Commission to celebrate their centenary
- Portrait of Professor John Poynter, Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
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Books / Catalogues
2007
- R. Ian Lloyd and John McDonald, Studio: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity, R Ian Lloyd Productions, Sydney, 2007
- Pip Stokes, The Prophetic Imagination
2005
- Rex Butler (ed), Radical Revisionism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2005
2004
- Luke Morgan, Time, Space and the Commonplace, catalogue essay, The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australia Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2004
2002
- Cassandra Laing, Dreaming forward, La Vita e' un Sogno, Exhibition Catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne 2002
2000
- Laura Murray-Cree and Neville Drury, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000
1998
- Katarina Paseta, Carnavalesque, catalogue essay, In absentia: Julia Ciccarone and Anne Wallace, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1998
1997
- George Seddon, Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape, Cambridge University Press, 1997
- Nevill Drury, Images 3 Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, 1997
1996
- Juliana Engberg, The Colonial Corridor, catalogue essay, Colonial Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, June 1996
- Robert Lindsay, Fictitious Voyages, Catalogue Essay, Robert Lindsay Gallery, 1996
- Neville Drury, Art Now Book 2, McGraw-Hill Australia, Sydney 1996
1995
- Robin Buckner, Art and Design Book One, McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 1995
1994
- Rachel Kent, Julia Ciccarone-Viva gli Sposi, Catalogue Essay, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1994
- Suffrage, Focus: 17 Australian Women Focus on the Progress of Women in Society over the Past 100 Years, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, 1994
1991
- Alison Carrol, The Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition, Moet and Chandon Australian Art Foundation, Sydney, 1991
- Stuart Koop and May Lam, Contemporary Landscapes, Deakin University, Geelong, 1991
- Kevin Murray, Witness: An Exhibition of Seven Contemporary Painters, Exhibition Catalogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1990
- Frances Lindsay, The Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition, Moet and Chandon Australian Art Foundation, Sydney, 1990
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Articles / Reviews
2007
- Robert Nelson, An exercise in incongruity, and an allegorical killing, The Age, 7 November 2007
- Critic's choice, Herald Sun, 5 November 2007
- Julia Ciccarone, The Age Melbourne Magazine, November 2007
2006
- Rex Butler, On radical revisionism, Artlink, Vol.26 No.1, pp 46-50, 2006
2005
- Harbant Gill, Images come flooding in, Herald Sun, 14 December 2005
- Art around the galleries, A2 The Age, 10 December 2005
- Robert Nelson, Ciccarone has the most beastly fun, The Age, 7 December 2005
2003
- Peter Hill, Magical mystic tour, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 May 2003
- The big picture, New Look, Issue 3, 2003
2002
- Susan McCulioch-Uehlin, Previews: Julia Ciccarone, Australian Art Collector, July 2002
- Jeff Makin, Off the wall, but it smells like keen spirit, Herald Sun, 19 August 2002
- Robert Nelson, Great Myths, great energy a vital mix, The Age, 10 August 2002
- Polished, unsettling art, The Age, 7 August, 2002
- Cassandra Laing, Uncertain terrain, Artlink, Vol 22 No 4, 2002
2000
- Robert Nelson, ...reassuring, The Age, 24 May 2000
- Adam Dutkiewicz, Compelling Narratives, The Advertiser, 16 March 2000
1998
- Rebecca Lancashire, Journey to the sublime, The Age, 26 May 1998
- Jenny Zimmer, Driven to abstraction, Herald Sun, May 1998
- Anne O'Hehir, Review, Musee Canberra 's Art Monthly, September 1998
- Sonia Barron, Individual paths lead to a sense of anxiety, The Canberra Times, August 1998
- Helen Musa, Pictures people can understand, The Canberra Times, July 1998
1996
- Robert Rooney, review, The Australian, 17 May 1996
- Susan McCulloch, The Australian Weekend Magazine, 8 June 1996
- Robert Nelson, Habits of the cinema, The Age 8 May 1996
- Lara Smith, The Faddish World of the Post Colonial Exhibition Space, The Big Issue, No.2 p.44 July 1996
- Peter Hill, The Next Wave, nightclubs, and surrounding islands, Art Monthly, pp 12-14, July 1996
- Brian Castro, Nature Morte: Pictures at an exhibition, Art Monthly, pp 4-6, August 1996
- Susan McCulloch, Julia Ciccarone at Robert Lindsay Gallery, Asian Art News, July 1996
1995
- Bob Hart, Telling tales, The Herald Sun, Melbourne, 29 January 1995
- David Broomfield, Varied Perspectives on Italian Experience, Art Through Australian Eyes, Vol 2., 1995
- Judith McGrath, The space may be empty but at PICA but the earth is full at the Kalla Yddeip Art Centre, The Western Review, September 1995
1994
- Adam Dutkiewicz, The Art of Suffrage, The Adelaide Advertiser, October 1994
- Anna Epstein, The Changing Face of Australian women, Artlink, Vol.14 No.1, 1994
- Nicholas Zurbrugg , Fatal Attraction: Women and Technology, Artlink, Vol.14 No.1, 1994
- Pamela Zeplin, Focusing Somewhere. Between the Home and the House: Women, Art 8a
- Robert Rooney, Warmth in the mountains frieze, The Weekend Australian, 17 December 1994
- Robert Nelson, Nuptial scenes from one of the city's most promising painters, The Age 7 December 1994
1992
- David Goodman, Contemporary Landscapes, Agenda, April 1992
- Jenny Zimmer, Arts; Vintage Vine Art, Sunday Review
1991
- Marie Geissler, Collectible Art of Moet et Chandon, Australian Business, 10 April 1991
- Sasha Grishin, Witness to a group of works by young, vigorous painters, The Canberra Times, 18 November 1990
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Film
Film 'Lily'
In collaboration with Kasimir Burgess
- Maremetraggio International Short Film Festival {Italy}
- Acquired by ABC TV 2011
- Collected by Australian National Film Archives 2011
- Distributed by Premium Films {France}
- Official Selection 27th Short Film Festival, Hamburg 2011
- Winner of the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in the Generation KPLUS category Berlin Int'l Film Festival 2011
- Berlin International Film - Festival 2011 (61 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Generation)
- Grand OFF World Independant Film Festival Nominated Best Direction {Poland} 2011
- 30th Uppsala International Film Festival Finalist Ingmar Bergman Award {Sweden}
- Tehran International Film Festival Special Jury Mention {Iran} 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival Opening Night Short Film {Moscow} 2011
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival Mo and Friese {Germany} 2011
- Sapporo Short Film Festival {Japan} 2011
- Discovery International Festival for Children and Young People {Scotland} 2011
- Cine' Magic International Film Festival {Ireland} 2011
- Le Festival Cine' Junior International Film Festival {France} 2011
- Palm Springs International Film Festival {USA} 2011
- Ankara 17th International Film Festival on Wheels {Israel} 2011
- International Art Festival for Children {Columbia} 2011
- Jerusalem International Children's Film Festival {Israel} 2011
- 29th International Young Audience Festival {Poland} 2011
- 19th OZU International Film Festival {Italy} 2011
- Official Selection St Kilda Film Festival 2011
- Flickerfest International Short Film Festival (Australia) 2011
- Won Gold at The Australian Cinematographers Society Awards 2010
- Official Selection Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia) 2010
Film '67'
In collaboration with Kasimir Burgess
- Screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2007
- Screened at the Artbank International Film Festival, Turkey 2007
- Screened at the Niagara Galleries, Australia 2007
- Screened at the St Kilda Film Festival, Australia 2007
- Screened at the Dungog Film Festival, Australia 2007
- Screened at the Falls Film Festival, Australia 2007
- Screened at the Portable Film Festival, Australia 2008
- Screened at the Concorto International Film Festival, Italy 2008
- Screened at the Tehran International Film Festival, Iran 2008
Music Videos
- Missy Higgins 'Hello Hello', 2012, Art Director
- San Cisco ' Wild Things', 2012