AU T U MN / W IN T E R 2021
Meet an Artist
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Justine Muller is a multidisciplinary artist whose residency on a remote station north of Broken Hill, and a broken down car, led to a life-changing artistic collaboration with Uncle Badger Bates and the Wilcannia community. An unusual upbringing in the East Sydney Hotel, Woolloomooloo, which her parents owned and ran, has had a lifelong influence on Justine Muller’s identity, artistic practice, and sense of connection to community. The pub saw the likes of CEOs, barristers, actors, journalists and filmmakers rubbing shoulders with musicians, drag queens, folk down on their luck and the
underbelly of Woolloomooloo. Justine describes the pub’s frequent visitors as her “extended family”. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney in 2007 Justine’s practice has spanned painting, sculpture, photography and installation, exploring themes of landscape, identity and human nature. 24
