BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
1999
1999
1999
NOSTALGIA
2009
NOSTALGIA
2009
NOSTALGIA
2009
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER WILKINS
1995 - 1996
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER WILKINS
1995 - 1996
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
BEYOND THE UNKNOWN
2020
ABOUT
“Based on a careful study of our world, that in turn suggests another, Ciccarone’s paintings operate in an invented space that exists somewhere between reality and memory”. Linda Short, curator, State Library of Victoria
Julia Ciccarone’s highly detailed paintings invite the viewer into a world that negotiates the space where memory, imagination, dream and reality intersect. Drawing on herself, friends and family as models for her paintings, solitary figures act out various roles, in vignettes from what the artist describes as “a sort of painterly movie”. Julia Ciccarone, 2014
Ciccarone’s interest in the relationship between painting and the moving image is reflected in the strong cinematic narrative that runs through her work and her approach to each series of paintings, which begins with a storyboard mapped out in pencil by the artist. Ciccarone has worked alongside film director Kasimir Burgess, variously as art director, producer and conceptual artist, contributing to four short films, music videos and the feature length film Fell.
Born in Melbourne in 1967, Julia Ciccarone completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1988. Julia lived and worked in Italy as the recipient of the Verdaccio Studio awarded by the Visual Arts & Crafts Board of the Australia Council. She has completed a number of commissioned portraits in recent years and exhibited in the 2013 Archibald Prize and recently the 100th anniversary Archiblad Prize. In 2014 the artist was a finalist in the Sir John Sulman Prize, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize and semi-finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
Julia currently lives and works in Melbourne.
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EXHIBITIONS
2020
Beyond the Unknown, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2018
Between Worlds, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2014
Ricordati, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
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
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2021
100th Archibald Prize 2021, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and Touring
2020
Blue Chip XXII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2019
Blue Chip XXI: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2017
Sydney Contemporary, Niagara Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney
2016
On the Beach, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
2015
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
Blue Chip XVII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2014
Blue Chip XVI: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize 2014, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2013
Sydney Contemporary 13, Carriageworks, Sydney
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Blue Chip XIV: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Archibald Prize 2013, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and Touring
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
COLLECTIONS
COMMISSIONS
Artbank, Sydney
BHP, Melbourne
Coopers & Lybrand, Melbourne
Edith Cowan University
Latrobe University, Melbourne
The Melbourne University, Melbourne
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
Monash University, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Parliament House, Canberra
The Melbourne Savage Club, Victoria
Wesfarmers Pty Ltd, Perth
Private collections, Australia
St Vincent's Commission to celebrate their centenary
Portrait of Professor John Poynter, Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
Portrait of Ronald Faren-Price, Australian Council
Portrait of Professor Vernon Marshal, Monash University
Portrait of Professor Bruce McKellar, University of Melbourne
Portrait of Professor Steve Wesselingh, Monash University
Portrait of Professor Stephen Holdsworth, Monash University
Portrait of Hatem Salem, Monash University
Portrait of Ross Gillies, QC, Peter O’Callaghan Gallery Foundation
Posthumous Portrait - William Alexander Watt, Parliament of Victoria
awards
2013
Finalist, Archibald Prize, Sydney
2014
Finalist, Sir John Sulman Prize, Sydney
Finalist, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adelaide
Semi-Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney
2021
Finalist, Archibald Prize, Sydney
2013
People's Choice Award Winner, Archibald Prize, Sydney
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS/CATALOGUES
Beyond the unknown, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2020
Blue Chip XXI: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2019
Between Worlds, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2018
On the Beach: Leisure, Pleasure, Conflict, exhibition catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2015
Ricordati, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
Blue Chip XV: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2013
13: 2013 Archibald Prize, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013
Sasha Grishin, Australian Art: A History, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2013
Blue Chip XIV: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2012
Meryl Ryan, Where there is water…, exhibition catalogue, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 2012
Julia Ciccarone: When you Write on Water, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 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’, catalogue essay, Memories of Things that Never Happened, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2005
Rex Butler (ed.), Radical Revisionism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2005
Luke Morgan, ‘Time, Space and the Commonplace’, catalogue essay, The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australia Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 2004
Cassandra Laing, ‘Dreaming forward’, catalogue essay, La Vita e’ un Sogno, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2002
Laura Murray-Cree and Nevill Drury, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000
Katarina Paseta, ‘Carnavalesque’, catalogue essay, In absentia: Julia Ciccarone and Anne Wallace, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1998
George Seddon, Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1997
Nevill Drury, Images 3 Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997
Juliana Engberg 'The Colonial Corridor', catalogue essay, Colonial Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, June 1996
Robert Lindsay, Fictitious Voyages, exhibition catalogue, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1996
Neville Drury Art Now Book 2, McGraw-Hill Australia, Sydney 1996
Robin Buckner, Art and Design Book One, McGraw-Hill Australia, Sydney, 1995
Rachel Kent, Julia Ciccarone-Viva gli Sposi, exhibition catalogue, 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
Alison Carrol, The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, Sydney, 1991
Stuart Koop & 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 Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, Sydney, 1990
ARTICLES/REVIEWS
Andrew Wood, ‘A burning issue’, Art Collector, no. 91, January-March 2020, front cover & pp. 202-203
Justin Heazlewood, ‘Past Calling’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2017
Ian Warden, ‘Face-to-face with a gorilla in our midst’, The Canberra Times, 2 October 2012
Jill Stowell, ‘A feast from far and wide’, Newcastle Herald, 24 December 2011
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
Rex Butler, ‘On radical revisionism’, Artlink, vol. 26, no. 1, 2006, pp. 46-50
Harbant Gill, ‘Images come flooding in’, Herald Sun, 14 December 2005
‘Art around the galleries’, The Age, 10 December 2005
Robert Nelson, ‘Ciccarone has the most beastly fun’, The Age, 7 December 2005
Peter Hill, ‘Magical mystic tour’, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 May 2003
‘The big picture’, New Look, no. 3, 2003
Susan McCulloch-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
Robert Nelson, ‘…reassuring’, The Age, 24 May 2000
Adam Dutkiewicz, ‘Compelling Narratives’, The Advertiser, 16 March 2000
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
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, July 1996, p. 44
Peter Hill, 'The Next Wave, nightclubs, and surrounding islands’, Art Monthly, July 1996, pp. 12–14
Brian Castro, 'Nature Morte: pictures at an Exhibition’, Art Monthly, August 1996, pp. 4–6
Susan McCulloch, 'Julia Ciccarone at Robert Lindsay Gallery', Asian Art News, July 1996
Bob Hart, ‘Telling tales’, The Herald Sun, 29 January 1995
David Broomfield, 'Varied Perspectives on Italian Experience’, Art Through Australian Eyes, vol. 2, 1995
Judith McGrath ‘The space may be empty at PICA but the earth is full at Kalla Yddeip Art Centre', The Western Review, September 1995
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
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
David Goodman ‘Contemporary Landscapes’, Agenda, April 1992
Jenny Zimmer, Arts; Vintage Vine Art', Sunday Review, 1992
Julia Ciccarone, ‘Artist Profile’, Artlink, June 1991
Marie Geissler, ‘Collectible Art of Moët 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
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
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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