IAG In Conversation: Ties that bind

Julie Fragar delves into the complexities of the lived human experience via the entwining of personal narratives with broader, collective themes. Her work navigates the intersections of family history, portraiture, biography, and the spectrum of human emotions in a process that meticulously layers imagery from various sources - resulting in paintings that are profound representations of psychological spaces. Text paintings often coexist with image-based works in explicit abstract association, causing the viewer to perpetually reconsider how her work might be approached or read.

Fragar's work, held in major public collections across Australia, offers the audience a raw, introspective and often unsettling narrative whilst exploring how individual experiences may be reflected and magnified within the collective consciousness.

Julie Fragar is represented nationally in Australia by The Renshaws.

Fernando do Campo is an Argentinean-Australian artist and academic based between Brisbane and Sydney. Do Campo's practice engages the histories of non-human species via anthropomorphism, speculative fiction, autobiography, fieldwork and archival research to produce multi-disciplinary exhibitions and projects. The global south and the legacies of colonialism, nationalism, modernism and migration that hold animal and plant narratives are a focus for his research and material studio explorations. do Campo has presented solo exhibitions in Australia and the USA, and group exhibitions internationally. 

In 2026 he is presenting a large-scale textiles commission for the Museo MAR (Museo de Arte Contemporanéo Provincial de Buenos Aires), as part of BIENALSUR 2025, the fifth International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the Global South, and a project with the Barnett Newman Foundation at the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, New York. Do Campo is a General Sir John Monash Foundation Scholar. He has an MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York and a PhD from Monash University, Melbourne. 

He is currently Artist-in-Residence at Taronga Zoo. Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the School of Art & Design, University of New South Wales, and is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

In her bodies of work, Sangeeta Sandrasegar constructs a continuous narrative centred upon the relationships between migrant communities to their homelands, and life in Australia, where she lives and works. Her projects contemplate the complexities and cosmopolitanism of the diaspora. Consistently engaging with shadow as a formal and symbolic motif, the diverse application of ephemeral visual effects elucidate eclipsed and marginalised presences.

Sangeeta has exhibited broadly over the past decades including Sharjah Biennial 15, Kochi Muziris Biennale, 11th Asia Pacific Triennial, 2^nd International Incheon Women Artists Biennale and 2^nd Auckland Triennial. Institutional museum projects have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; and the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, with major commissions for Fed. Square, Melbourne, The Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne; and The Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Sandrasegar holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Visual Arts from The University of Melbourne.