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The materiality of Julie's pracitice is
instrumental to the aesthetic and meaning communicated in her works.
For example through her focus on materials, Intertidal references
a series of particular yet geographically disparate places. Composing
materials as she does Julie draws associations between places into a
performative space evocative of her
own experiences and memoryscapes.
Like her earlier works these sculptural
pieces are comprised of 'found' objects and materials, but they are assemblages
of earth, shell and plant matter. In creating such compositions Julie
invokes a direct connection between the viewer and
the
unspoken
stories,
people
and places
from where
her
materials
are
derived.
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Materials used in Julie Gough's Intertidal,
which included Canberra earth, Canberra grass
juice, Hyde Park Sydney ochre, St Kilda pier sea washed charcoal, ground
cuttlefish bone and chopped sea lettuce on board.
Detail of Stronghold, 2003 made of
roped lomandra
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