Julia Trybala is an early-career artist working across painting and drawing. 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of human relationships, drawing inspiration from personal experiences, conversations with friends and family, and art historical references.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. Trybala 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. She was a finalist in the 2021 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Award. Her work is held in private collections in Australia and internationally.
Hold a body together
2021
installation view
I always lock the door when I creep by daylight
2021
oil on canvas
152.0 x 122.0 cm
Fold
2020
oil on canvas
51.0 x 41.0 cm
I was eating an orange
2020
oil on canvas
66.0 x 56.0 cm
Hold a body together
2021
installation view
Bathroom
2021
oil on canvas
More space than is given
2020
oil on canvas
120.0 x 107.0 cm
Petal (A plant that sprawls out and beyond intended growth)
2020
oil on canvas
66.0 x 56.0 cm
Bed frame
2021
oil on canvas
104.0 x 86.0 cm, framed
Cry Baby
2020
oil on canvas
51.0 x 41.0 cm