Julie Gough is an artist, writer and curator, First People’s Art and Culture, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG). Gough’s multi-media art works often reveal and re-present conflicting and subsumed histories, legacies and impacts of colonization, sometimes referring to her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Her Briggs-Johnson-Gower family have lived in the Latrobe region of Lutruwita (Tasmania) since the 1840s, with Tebrikunna in north east Lutruwita their Traditional, Trawlwoolway, Country. Gough has exhibited in more than 200 exhibitions since 1994, including 65,000 years, Truth Tell (2025), Shadow Spirit (2023), Biennale of Sydney (2022, 2006), Tarnanthi (2021, 2017), Adelaide Biennial (2018, 1998), Eucalyptusdom, Tense Past, Defying Empire, The National, With Secrecy and Despatch, Undisclosed; Clemenger Award, Liverpool Biennial, UK (2001), Perspecta (1995).
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