JULIE FRAGAR
Nov 07, 2018
4 minutes
STORY H.R. HYATT-JOHNSTON
PHOTOGRAPHY
MICK RICHARDS
When Artist Profile visited Julie Fragar in her studio in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, she was working on a new series of paintings that explore what happens when private lives are exposed to the public gaze. This latest work moves away from the intense autobiographical paintings that have occupied Fragar for the last several years.
YOU GREW UP IN THE COUNTRY. WHAT MADE YOU decide to go to art school?
I didn’t think about doing anything else.
I was looking at the Hunter series of paintings in 2010. Did you hunt as a child?
Yes, sometimes with my father and brother. With those works I started thinking about what is the relationship between a human being and an animal. Most of the paintings
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