Sydney-based artist Julia Gutman revels in contradiction for her larger-than-life textile artworks. They are soft works in materiality, yet as Gutman “stabs” the textiles with her large needle, she enjoys the metaphorical “harshness” that rejects traditional polite and feminine embroidery notions.
In her current exhibition, at Sullivan+Strumpf, Gutman turns on the male gaze in art history, reclaiming female bodies as she casts her
