For four decades, visual artist Julia Ritson has explored the painted surface of the grid to capture contemporary and historical references through texture, colour, and form. Graduate of Victorian College of the Arts (Painting) – University of Melbourne. Lives and works in Bass Coast Victoria.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne – February
2023 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2021 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Grid Paintings 25 Years, Scott Livesey Galleries
2014 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2011 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2009 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2006 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2003 O&B Gallery, Sydney
2001 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
1999 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
1997 Temple Studio, Melbourne
1995 Temple Studio, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2024 Summer, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2024 Winter, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2023 Winter/Spring Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Summer, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine
2021 21, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2021 Autumn, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Summer, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015 NEO-0-10, Works on Paper, Stephen Mclaughlan Gallery
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Dark: More than Black, Stephen Mclaughlan Gallery
2013 Big and Small, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2008 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
2001 Something for the Ladies …, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
2000 Episode, Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Julia, Sarah and Joanne Ritson, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1995 Shifting Grounds, Melbourne
1993 Ritson, Somerville, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 Parcel Post Show, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1993 The Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Melbourne
1992 Diary, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1990 Seven Artists, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne
1990 20 Painters, Ministry of Arts, Melbourne
AWARD
1990 Dora Wilson Award for Painting (Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria), Victorian College of the Arts
QUALIFICATIONS
1990 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
CATALOGUE for Grid Paintings 25 Years 2018