29 October, 2005

WOW Profiles VI


This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Juli Haas


water walker


Juli Haas was born in Chelsea in Victoria in 1952 and studied at Caufield Institute of Technology, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and Monash University. She is a highly successful Melbourne based print maker and watercolourist who has held numerous exhibitions since she started exhibiting in 1990 including many overseas. She has been awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize, the Silk Cut Award, the Shell Art Prize and many other acquisative awards and commissions both in Australia and overseas.

Her distinctive figurative works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, numerous regional galleries, and private and corporate collections throughout the world.

"Juli Haas employs allegorical imagery to create a fantastic and ambiguous world through which she can provide a commentary on social behaviour, particularly on the role of women in contemporary society. The surreal dream-like imagery, laced with wit, whimsicality and a latent eroticism, creates a popularly accessible visual language, rich in its theatricalism, vibrant colours and dramatic appeal" *Sasha Grishin "Australian Printmaking in the 1990's"

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Juli Haas, highly successful Melbourne based watercolourist and print-maker, has exhibited in over 100 countries and has been awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize, the Silk Cut Award, the Shell Art Prize, the Acquisitive Award by the Hawaii State Foundation, and numerous others.

Her highly distinctive & rich imagery is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, numerous regional galleries, and private and corporate collections throughout the world.

Haas’s artwork can be dark and menacing, but there is also a strong undercurrent of humour and irony. Entire stories seem to be contained within a single image- her famously detailed pictures engaging the viewer within a world in which there is always something new to observe. So much is packed into a single painting or print. Haas is one of those artists for whom the imagination is an endless supply of inspiration.

at flinders lane


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article at the age
"the prints of darkness"
"Haas, 53, left her art degree unfinished in the '70s, did odd jobs, got married, had three children and then returned to study in the '80s where she completed a masters of art at Monash University. She has had several solo exhibitions here and overseas and contributes to exchange folios where up to 40 artists put in prints for collections. The day of the interview she received a box of prints, including one of hers, from the State University of New York, which will exhibit and tour the collection that has as its theme, Walking On Water."

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last dance

Making a striking presence are the works of the imaginative artist Juli Haas. Terminus 1991 and Last Dance 1995 are both representative of Haas's rich idiosyncratic depictions that have been skilfully adapted to the artists' book medium. These works have a particular focus on the ironic elements of life and, although often dark and menacing, they possess a great vitality in execution.

artist books in the deakin uni collection

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