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Take
a walk down lonely street....
Inside
the mind of watercolourist and printmaker
Juli Haas a dazzling world of imagination both wrestles
with and celebrates the ubiquitous nature of human
experience. Dark and menacing, yet full of humour
and irony Haas' work plunges the viewer into a realm
of private demons and intimate encounters.
In her exhibition, Heartbreak Hotel, (July 31 - August 18 2007), complex compositions
and multiple realities unleashed a narrative of individuals
at odds with their circumstances, lost in dark corridors
of the mind. Like marionettes in someone else's dream
Haas' characters engage in the bizarre, symbolic and
nonsensical as they search out moments of longing
and connection. These strange worlds of heightened
colour and gothic sensibility stimulate the imagination
and ask us to closely inspect conditions of the heart.
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. She 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.
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