• Julian Meagher, The Sea is in the Sky #2, 2024, Oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm
  • Julian Meagher, The Sea is in the Sky #4, 2024, Oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Night Palace #4, 2024, Oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Night Palace #5, 2024, Oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement #5, 2021, Oil on linen, 51 x 41 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Rainbow #9, 2024, Oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Son on the Moon, 2024, Oil on linen, 81 x 61 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Pipeclay Lane Study #4, 2024, Oil on linen, 81 x 61 cm
  • Julian Meagher, There is hope til the last flower #2, Oil on linen, 2024, 153 x 122 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Breaking Sky #1, 2023, Oil on linen, 198 x 173 cm
  • Julian Meagher, Rainbow #4, 2023, Oil on linen, 198 x 173 cm
  • Julian Meagher, The Green Ray #6, 2022, Oil on linen, 214 x 198 cm
  • Julian Meagher, The Green Ray #10, 2022, Oil on linen, 214 x 198 cm
  • Installation view of Breaking Sky Double Rainbow, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2023
  • Installation view of Breaking Sky Double Rainbow, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2023
  • Installation view of Breaking Sky Double Rainbow, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2023
  • Installation view of The Green Ray, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, 2023
  • Installation view of The Green Ray, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, 2023
  • Installation view of The Green Ray, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, 2023
  • Installation view of The Small Hours, an exhibition by Julian Meagher, at Yavuz Gallery, Redfern. November 2021. Image Credit: Docqment.
  • Installation view of Triple Rainbow, Mudgee Arts Precinct, NSW, Australia, 2024. Photography by Gus Armstrong.
  • Installation view of Triple Rainbow, Mudgee Arts Precinct, NSW, Australia, 2024. Photography by Gus Armstrong.
  • Installation view of Triple Rainbow, Mudgee Arts Precinct, NSW, Australia, 2024. Photography by Gus Armstrong.
ARTIST

Julian Meagher

Julian Meagher’s (b. 1978, Australia) works evoke a sense of the sublime, capturing ephemeral and ever-changing moments that sit between reality and comprehension. Pared down and minimal, his oil paintings act as a mirror into the artist’s introspections and ruminations on the world and its condition. Meagher reflects the cyclical passage of time through light, nature, and portraiture, capturing the endless cycles of the built and natural worlds. Landscapes unravel as self-portraits, capturing Meagher’s feelings towards them, portraits of his family melt into fields of colour and abstract landscapes; both encapsulating his larger hopes for nature, his family and the future. Neither one nor the other, Meagher’s paintings collapse the divide between genres.

Meagher has been a finalist in the Glover Prize 2019, Archibald Portrait Prize 2014, 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2024, the Wynne Prize 2015 and the Gold Award at Rockhampton Art Gallery 2016. He has also been a finalist multiple times in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Salon des Refuses, Metro Art Prize, Blake Prize for Religious Art and the RBS Emerging Artist Prize. He has exhibited extensively across Australia, Asia and America, and his work is included in public collections including  Artbank, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, St Paul’s College, Sydney University, St John’s College, Sydney University, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Sydney, Australian Catholic Univeristy and numerous private collections.