Juliet Phraser

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography)

Work with the limits of the body:
this is a phrase.

Silky gates to move out and through,

constructing caged blues.

Touch it’s gazing navel,
or taste it’s ripe seed.

Assembling archetypes and images to breathe.

A big box breath
wrapped up in care,
rephrasing the myth of personal narrative. Again

and again.

Website

julietphraser.com

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Wall with open gate style doors covered in different blue coloured fabrics. Looking in on the open doors there is plinth with a small lamp on it. Projected on the back wall is a still from a short film which shows pomegranates being ripped open by hands. — Juliet Phraser, Blue Cage, satin, velvet, polyester, flannel, vintage cotton bedsheets, pomegranate juice, shoe box tissue paper, floral wire, PVA glue. Documentation by SLACK.

There is a large square plinth covered in papier-mache on the sides and painted light blue on the top. There is a desk lamp sitting on top of the plinth. The lamp is pointing down on a minature bathtub which has a photograph underneath it. On the right of the plinth is a projection of a video still of hands holding a pomegranate. On the left of the plinth is the back wall of the gallery which is a brick finish painted in a slightly darker light blue. — Juliet Phraser, Box Breath, analogue chromogenic print, miniature plastic bathtub, bathroom debris, vintage Australian desk lamp, plywood, shoe box tissue paper, house paint, PVA glue, 100 x 80 x 80cm, 2022.

Top down view of large square plinth painted pale blue. There is a vintage desk lamp pointing down on a pale pink minature bathtub. Underneath the bathtub is a colour darkroom print of legs in a bathtub. The light being filtered through the bathtub creates a rippled light effect, the edge of the bathtub's shadow aligns with the legs of the photograph sitting underneath it. — Juliet Phraser, Box Breath, analogue chromogenic print, miniature plastic bathtub, bathroom debris, vintage Australian desk lamp, plywood, shoe box tissue paper, house paint, PVA glue, 100 x 80 x 80cm, 2022.

There is a horizontal painting suspended on a black wire cage wall. Behind the painting and the metal cage its suspended on is floral bedsheet fabric. The painting itself is a collage of images that have been repainted in a realistic style. The focus of the painting is a woman lying down looking at the camera while a masculine figure lift her shirt and nuzzles her breast. Extending from the female figure's pubic mound is a bathtub tap. There is water flowing out of the tap and into another female figure who's lying underneath in a teal coloured bathtub. Surrounding these figures is a spiral staircase, black and white kitchen tiles, monstera plant leafs. Other collaged figures in the painting is an earn with three cartoon style flowers coming out of it and a child’s hand reaching around behind a door to touch it. In the gaps of the painting are large pomegranate seeds that have also been collaged and painted. — Juliet Phraser, Snakes and Ladders, acrylic on canvas, 101 cm x 50cm, 2022.

This is a detailed shot of the small sculptures which help suspend the fabric on the cage wall. A light brown organic tree branch style sculpture is in the centre of the frame holding together three different coloured fabrics. — Juliet Phraser, Blue Cage, detail, shoe box tissue paper, floral wire, PVA glue, acrylic paint, dimensions variable, 2022.

On floral vintage bedsheet there is a red cotton thread embroidery which reads in bubble style text 'intomeisee'. Some of the flowers on the bedsheet are outlined in blue and purple embroidery threads — Juliet Phraser, Intomeisee, cotton thread embroidery on vintage bedsheet, dimensions variable, 2022.

This is a wide shot of the installation showing on the right hand wall the video projection, in the centre frame the plinth with the sculptures on top, and on the left the painting above the door way and fabric draped on the cage around it. The walls are also painted pale blue. — Juliet Phraser, Blue Cage, Installation View, 2022. Documentation by SLACK.

Juliet Phraser, Persephone Incoming, super 8, transferred to 4K Digital Scan, 4 Minute and 20 second duration, 2022.

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