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Roadside Treasures Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Roadside Treasures
Roadside Treasures 2021
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
SOLD 
Roadside TreasuresJulia SirianniRoadside Treasures
Roadside Treasures2021
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
SOLD 
Campers Husk Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Campers Husk
Campers Husk 2022
oil on linen
100 x 100 cm
$5,200  ENQUIRE
Campers HuskJulia SirianniCampers Husk
Campers Husk2022
oil on linen
100 x 100 cm
$5,200  ENQUIRE
Deepwater Have You Seen This Fish Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Deepwater Have You Seen This Fish
Deepwater Have You Seen This Fish 2022
oil on board
50 x 40 cm
$2,800  ENQUIRE
Deepwater Have You Seen This FishJulia SirianniDeepwater Have You Seen This Fish
Deepwater Have You Seen This Fish2022
oil on board
50 x 40 cm
$2,800  ENQUIRE
Guardian Of The Back Paddock Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Guardian Of The Back Paddock
Guardian Of The Back Paddock 2022
oil on board
60 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Guardian Of The Back PaddockJulia SirianniGuardian Of The Back Paddock
Guardian Of The Back Paddock2022
oil on board
60 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Before The Dunes Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Before The Dunes
Before The Dunes 2022
oil on linen
100 x 100 cm
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Before The DunesJulia SirianniBefore The Dunes
Before The Dunes2022
oil on linen
100 x 100 cm
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Leaving Springs Beach With Burnt Feet Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Leaving Springs Beach With Burnt Feet
Leaving Springs Beach With Burnt Feet 2022
oil on linen
121 x 152 cm
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Leaving Springs Beach With Burnt FeetJulia SirianniLeaving Springs Beach With Burnt Feet
Leaving Springs Beach With Burnt Feet2022
oil on linen
121 x 152 cm
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Engulfed In Grey Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Engulfed In Grey
Engulfed In Grey 2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
SOLD 
Engulfed In GreyJulia SirianniEngulfed In Grey
Engulfed In Grey2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
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Paperbark Part Two Julia Sirianni - Paperbark Part Two
Paperbark Part Two 2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
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Paperbark Part TwoPaperbark Part Two
Paperbark Part Two2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
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A Seat For Tresspassers Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - A Seat For Tresspassers
A Seat For Tresspassers 2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
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A Seat For TresspassersJulia SirianniA Seat For Tresspassers
A Seat For Tresspassers2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
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Orange Meets Blue At The Wave Lookout Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Orange Meets Blue At The Wave Lookout
Orange Meets Blue At The Wave Lookout 2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
SOLD 
Orange Meets Blue At The Wave LookoutJulia SirianniOrange Meets Blue At The Wave Lookout
Orange Meets Blue At The Wave Lookout2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
SOLD 
Through The Woodland Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Through The Woodland
Through The Woodland 2022
oil on linen
182 x 213 cm
SOLD 
Through The WoodlandJulia SirianniThrough The Woodland
Through The Woodland2022
oil on linen
182 x 213 cm
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Left On Middle Creek Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Left On Middle Creek
Left On Middle Creek 2022
oil on board
50 x 40 cm
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Left On Middle CreekJulia SirianniLeft On Middle Creek
Left On Middle Creek2022
oil on board
50 x 40 cm
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Last Train From Tableland Road Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Last Train From Tableland Road
Last Train From Tableland Road 2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
SOLD 
Last Train From Tableland RoadJulia SirianniLast Train From Tableland Road
Last Train From Tableland Road2022
oil on linen
101 x 76 cm
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Whisper Trees And Climbing Ferns Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Whisper Trees And Climbing Ferns
Whisper Trees And Climbing Ferns 2022
oil on linen
121 x 152 cm
SOLD 
Whisper Trees And Climbing FernsJulia SirianniWhisper Trees And Climbing Ferns
Whisper Trees And Climbing Ferns2022
oil on linen
121 x 152 cm
SOLD 
Wreck Rock Road Julia Sirianni Julia Sirianni - Wreck Rock Road
Wreck Rock Road 2022
oil on board
60 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Wreck Rock RoadJulia SirianniWreck Rock Road
Wreck Rock Road2022
oil on board
60 x 60 cm
SOLD 

On My Mind

A response to two weeks traveling north of Brisbane, through the Gladstone region, for a short stay in the town of Agnes Water. I spent my first few days getting to know this new landscape, venturing into the nearby woodlands and getting lost on sandy trails. I stepped into the paperbark forest, there was only the path to follow and time to spend looking and listening to the trees and birds. I traveled to nearby towns following the rail lines and stopping at every bridge crossing. From each day spent there I created quick studies mapping out my travels. After a week immersed in this new environment it felt like a fog had lifted. I have always considered my painting practice as a path through difficult times, my own grieving process. ‘On my mind’ has allowed me to release and reinvest these feelings. Although thoughts of the past and things gone still linger, they are no longer as intrusive.

Julia Sirianni, March 2022

Julia Sirianni 'On My Mind'

For Julia Sirianni, painting is more than a pastime – it is a way of finding calm in a world that causes anxiety. Location is everything. Each painting is the result of hours of research, scouring landscapes for the perfect space in which to immerse herself. Trained formally in Fine Art, Sirianni gravitated towards plein air painting when she discovered its intuitive, fast nature suited her own drive and boosted the confidence with which she viewed her practice. Soothed by her surroundings, Sirianni’s attention shifts to atmosphere, and using light and colour to evoke the elements in front of her.

Lately, Sirianni has sought places of calm in the inner city, a result of the restrictions the world is currently living under. Able only to take photos or complete a few short sketches, her new body of work has been completed in the studio, leading to more detail, and focus on the manmade – though she continues to push herself to complete the works quickly, while her senses retain the memory of the place she has been. These works highlight the odd beauty of human traces, and the will of nature to regrow and repair.

Julia Sirianni completed her Bachelor of Visual Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in 2015. Winner of the Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize People’s Choice Award, Sydney (2019), she was a finalist in the Rotary Art Spectacular (2019), the Morris Art Prize (2018), Nundah Art Show (2017) and the Brisbane Art Prize (2016).

Carrie McCarthy 2020

Julia Sirianni

EDUCATION

2020

  • Queensland University of Technology, Master of Teaching (Secondary) (Visual Art)

2015

  • Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Bachelor of Fine Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

  • 'Walking Distance', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2023

  • 'Scenes From The South', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2022

  • 'On My Mind', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2021

  • 'In the Distance', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2020

  • 'Suburban Sanctuaries'[Online], Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2019

  • 'From Life', Innerspace Contemporary Art, Brisbane

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • 'Sydney Contemporary Art Fair Online', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2020

  • 'My Imagination', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
  • 'A Painted Landscape', Michael Reid, Berlin, Germany
  • 'Landscapes - A Group Show' (online), Studio Direct Michael Reid, Sydney

2019

  • 'Open Air', Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 'Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize', Space Gallery, Sydney

2015

  • 'Sculpture 15 Graduate Show', River Studios Griffith University, Brisbane
  • 'Six Plus Seven', Red Door Gallery USQ, Toowoomba

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2024

  • Finalist, Hadley's Art Prize, Hobart
  • Finalist, Omnia Art Prize, St Kevin's College, Victoria

2020

  • Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize

2019

  • People’s Choice Award, Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize, Space Gallery, Sydney
  • Finalist, Rotary Art Spectacular, Queensland

2018

  • Finalist, Morris Art Prize, Gold Coast

2017

  • Finalist, Nundah Art Show, Brisbane

2016

  • Finalist, Brisbane Art Prize, Brisbane

RESIDENCIES

2019

  • Mitchelton State High School, Mitchelton, Queensland

PROJECTS

2016

  • Album Art, Maybe I Was A Beast, Buellers

2015

  • Album Art, Cassowary Rider, Buellers

May 21, 2024

JULIA SIRIANNI FINALIST IN THE 2024 HADLEY'S ART PRIZE

Julia Sirianni has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Hadley's Art Prize for her work 'Turtle Creek' 2023. Presented by Hadley’s Orient Hotel, the annual Hadley’s Art Prize in Hobart is an acquisitive Australian landscape prize which offers $100,000 to the winning entry.

Hadley’s Orient Hotel has a long history with art starting with art-loving landlords in the late 1800s. The Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart contributes to the art community, celebrates excellence in contemporary landscape art, promotes cultural tourism in Tasmania, and restores art to the historic walls of Hadley’s Orient Hotel through a landscape prize like early landlord Howard Hadley won in 1895.

Judged by a panel of art specialists, the prize is open to Australian artists over the age of eighteen working in two-dimensional media. Artists at all career stages are invited to enter. The exhibition of finalists will be held at the Hadley’s Orient Hotel from 3 - 25 August.

IMAGE:

Julia Sirianni
Turtle Creek
2023
oil on linen
152 x 122 cm

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May 15, 2020

JULIA SIRIANNI - RAVENSWOOD AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S ART PRIZE

Congratulations to Julia Sirianni for being a finalist in the Emerging Artist category of the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize for 2020.

The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia.

There are three prize categories – the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000, the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000.

IMAGE:

Julia Sirianni

A Place to Hide 2020

oil on board

60 x 60 cm

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