Trybala centres her work on the complexity of human relationships, drawing inspiration from personal experiences, conversations with friends and family, and art historical references. The politics of the feminine body in space is central to Trybala’s work. In her carefully composed paintings, closely cropped, ambiguous body parts are entangled as fleshy planes contort and push to the edge of the frame. Intimacy, tenderness and fragility are expressed through subtle gestures and expressions, rendered in luscious, velvety paint that flows across the canvas.
Julia exhibited work in Melbourne Now, at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (2023) and has work held in the Artbank Collection, Australia. She was a finalist in the 2021 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Award. Trybala currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia and holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT University (2016). She has been exhibiting regularly since 2015 with exhibitions held in Melbourne, Sydney, Geelong, Perth, as well as internationally in Singapore, France and Italy.
Wide Eyed
2024
STATION, Sydney
Installation view
Photo: Jessica Maurer Photography
Self Portrait, November
2023
oil on canvas
137.0 x 107.0 cm
Red Dress
2023
oil on canvas
112.0 x 92.0 cm
Tender
2025
Ngununggula
installation view
Photo: Mim Stirling
Tender
2025
Ngununggula
installation view
Photo: Mim Stirling
Tender
2025
Ngununggula
installation view
Photo: Mim Stirling
Olive
2024
oil on canvas
66.0 x 56.0 cm
Wide Eyed
2024
STATION, Sydney
installation view
Photo: Jessica Maurer
Sydney Contemporary
2022
installation view
Plait
2025
oil on canvas
91.5 x 31.0 cm
Solstice
2024
oil on canvas
138.0 x 107.0 cm
two sisters
2022
oil on canvas
91.0 x 66.0 xm
Arch
2022
G/ART/EN, Como, Italy
installation view
Arch
2022
G/ART/TEN, Como, Italy
installation view
Arch
2022
G/ART/EN, Como, Italy
installation view
Nude
2022
oil on canvas
71.0 x 51.0 cm
Cupid
2023
oil on canvas
92.0 x 76.5 cm
I was eating an orange
2020
oil on canvas
66.0 x 56.0 cm
Hold a body together
2021
STATION, Melbourne
installation view
Shape of things
2020
oil on canvas
112.0 x 102.0 cm
More space than is given
2020
oil on canvas
120.0 x 107.0 cm