Julie Montgarrett
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PositionLecturer, Fine Arts
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CampusWagga Wagga
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LocationBuilding 21, Room 306
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Phone/Fax(02) 6933 2838
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Profile
Julie Montgarrett is a visual/textile artist and Lecturer in Art and Design. She has exhibited in more than 55 solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia, in Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom since 1977. She has completed numerous art and working life and community projects; wardrobe for theatre and design commissions for commercial and public sectors of the visual and performing arts industries in Australia and overseas. Her works are represented in National and International Collections: Queensland Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria; Ararat Gallery; Victorian State Craft Collection; Tamworth Regional Gallery and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland among others. She has a Masters Degree in Visual Art (Textile) and has undertaken numerous Artist-in-Residencies in Australia and overseas including Australia Council representative at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada; Curtin University, Perth; Crafts Council of the Northern Territory; University of Tasmania and the Victorian Trades Hall Council Arts Workshop among others.
Teaching
She has extensive experience in tertiary education having taught Design and Drawing at RMIT for 8 years, Curtin University, Perth, University of Tasmania; OECT (Swinburne) TAFE Art and Design for 5 years. She has taught at CSU for the past 15 years working with students at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. One of her aims as CSU Fine Art Course Co-ordinator for the BA (Fine Art) degree is to continue to enhance the range and accessibility of Visual Arts subjects available to regional students across NSW with on-campus and distance education delivery via the articulation arrangement between CSU and TAFE NSW.
Julie lectures in the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts).
Research
Her most recent solo exhibition, ‘guessing games in borrowed spaces’ (2008), at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery explored themes of chance and fragility, transition and flux in real and imagined locations through a hybrid form of drawing and embroidery. She is particularly interested in the ways that textile and drawing, both ancient art forms endure as vital contemporary languages for individuals and communities in every culture and society.