Julya Hegarty | Sunnyside ” Melbourne Series”

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ARTIST BIO: JULYA HEGARTY

Julya Hegarty is a multi-disciplinary artist, exhibiting her ceramics, paintings and weaving in galleries along the East Coast. Julya’s practice combines a cacophony of influences, which she applies in a layered approach to her work. In her ceramic, cardboard sculptures, and paintings, she discovers ways to weave together text playful imagery, and cultural narratives, relishing the autonomy to be direct, succinct, or esoteric and shy, depending on what she wants the artwork to say.

Julya lives and works on Gubbi Gubbi country at the base of the Blackall Ranges in the small rural township of Woombye. After studying Visual Art and obtaining an Advanced Diploma of Visual Art through TAFE Queensland, Julya has gone on to win the 3D prize in the 2022 Caloundra Regional Gallery Local Contemporary Art Prize, was a finalist in the 2022 National Emerging Art Prize, a participant in the 2023 Sunshine Coast – ProjectLab incubator and residency program, Finalist in the 2024 Sunshine Coast Local Contemporary Art Prize, whilst also developing and contributing works for solo and group exhibitions in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Julya Hegarty describes her work as familial memories and experiences of place, created through a combination of compositional experimentation and imaginative remembrance.