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Julia Roche: Under A Winter Moon

Three detailed canvas are suspended from the wall in a dark with with another large canvas with stars to the right.

Julia Roche
Under A Winter Moon
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch

Julia Roche is a local artist based on Wiradjuri country. Her landscape paintings were completed by leaving canvases outdoors, inviting environmental elements such as mist, rain, sunlight, and debris to become imprinted onto her works.

Splitting her time between a repurposed woolshed studio on her family’s farm ‘Wooroola’ near Mangoplah and the regenerative farm ‘Bibbaringa’ at Bowna, Roche created the new series of work Under a Winter Moon on large-scale canvas and sheets of rag paper, using found objects and materials from both properties.

Venturing out into the winter elements with only moonlight to guide her gesture and palette, allowed Roche the opportunity to solely focus on what she felt in the environment. Using materials such as natural charcoal and pastels, Roche relied on the motion of her own body, mark making large-scale landscapes in response to the shadows, silhouettes, and textures around her.

This visceral collaboration with the environment meant each work in this series served a time and site-specific record of the natural world. Pattered with subtle motifs and mark-making, Roche challenged our understanding of painting landscapes and encouraged us to work more closely in and with our surrounding environment.

ceramic vases and stars rest in the opening of a fire pit with several canvas hung up to the side.
Julia Roche

Under A Winter Moon
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch

Three melt candles rest to side of a black canvas with ceramic starts on it
Julia Roche

Out the Studio Door (detail), 2021
Under A Winter Moon, Murray Art Museum Albury
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch

Three large paper canvas suspended from the ceiling each with the same colours of green,orange, blue and white all together in different patterns appearing like colours from a distance.
Julia Roche

Under A Winter Moon
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch

A large paper artwork with colours of blue, green, white and orange merging into each other. Details added of charcoal are added on top in spratic patterns.
Julia Roche

Under a Winter Moon III, 2021
oil and mixed media on cotton rag
Under A Winter Moon, Murray Art Museum Albury
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch

A large landscape blue canvas with small details in yellow and white. The shapes by the edge of the artwork appear like waves and charcoal details added on top.
Julia Roche

Night Lit, 2021
oil and mixed media on cotton rag
Under A Winter Moon, Murray Art Museum Albury
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch,

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