Congratulations to JULIE RRAP, who is a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize 2023.
National Art School presents the Dobell prize, which celebrates contemporary drawing.
Rrap’s video work ‘DRAW OUT’ is a brilliant investigation of drawing ‘the nude’:
“The drawing is a kind of haptic expression as a naked Julie Rrap rolls back and forth over paper secured to the floor. Here she marks the parameters of her body in charcoal. She can’t actually see her body as one entity in this process, it is not an object of her gaze. What we see is the writing and erasing of a body in pieces, a fragmented body, a body that wears the erasure of the drawing on its skin.” @annemarsh56, 2022
All finalists will be on show at the NAS Gallery until 10th June 2023.
JULIE RRAP, ‘Drawn Out’, 2022, video, 12 min.