Julie Gough (TRAWLWOOLWAY)

Born 1965, Trawlwoolway
Lives and works Trawlwoolway

Julie Gough (Trawlwoolway). Gough’s art and research practice focuses on uncovering and re-presenting conflicting and subsumed histories, often drawing from her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Gough is primarily a mixed media installation artist, a writer and a curator of First Peoples Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Gough has exhibited in more than 200 exhibitions since 1994, with works held in most national and state collections and represented in two monographs, Fugitive History (2018) and Tense Past (2021). Gough holds degrees in visual arts: PhD (UTAS, 2021), MA (Goldsmiths, University of London, 1998), BA Hons. (UTAS, 1995), BA (Curtin University, 1993) and a BA in archaeology/english literature (UWA, 1987).