DIRECTOR : JULIE BARRATT

Julie Barratt, Director of Barratt Galleries has spent the last 20 years working primarily with print, as a commercial printer, a student of printmaking and a teacher at primary and tertiary level. She now works as an artist and curator of limited edition prints, works on paper and artists’ books. She has a great love of the print medium and its many techniques, the immediacy of its surface, of working straight on the paper, of the visibility of technique.

Julie studied at the Central Queensland College of TAFE, a vibrant regional technical college, where she taught and was artist-in-residence in a program she initiated. She continued her studies and practise at Southern Cross University in Lismore, working during that time as an intern with Regional Arts organization Arts Northern Rivers.

As an artist and teacher who honed her skills, knowledge and craft in the regions, primarily in the Central Queensland town of Rockhampton, she has a special love for work born out of the regions, and a deep understanding of the particular hardships faced by artists who don’t have access to the cultural centres and the privilege this offers. She finds the works from regional centres genuine with an unpretentious earthiness which is refreshing and unique.

She is widely travelled and has a broad knowledge of contemporary works and their place in culture. She is a producer of artists’ books and continues her studies and development in this area, with an upcoming book exhibition at the University of Western England in November 2007.

Julie, as Director of Barratt Galleries, is integrally involved in art activities within the local art community, through lectures, special events, workshops and other opportunities as they arise and the gallery evolves.

Her work has been widely exhibited and collected, privately and by national galleries.

Please find Julie’s full biography here.