Julie is a storyteller and visual artist and has exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and the USA over the past nine years. She has developed and implemented numerous arts projects that connect and engage communities of interest through storytelling and art. In November 2009 she was engaged by Whittlesea Council to work with staff and volunteers from the Whittlesea Community Hub to develop a community installation that would enable locals to ‘download’ stories, messages and memories leading up to the first anniversary of the Black Saturday fires.  

Julie is of Māori and Dalmatian heritage. Her work is intuitive and is influenced by subjects such as the natural environment, the family unit, social rituals and cultural stories. Her work appears in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Hawaii, Canada and Ireland.

Her work titled ‘one cuppa: a thousand stories featured in the ‘Understandably Connected’ exhibition at the C.N. Gorman Museum in the USA with artists Melanie Yazzie and Noelle Jakeman in 2007.  This work features in community storytelling workshops she conducts in partnership with local councils.

International Residencies for 2010

Julie recently participated in a ten day international residency (Te Tihi 2010) in New Zealand working and living with more than 80 international Indigenous artists. Following on from this gathering she will curate a group exhibition with Koorie artists Michael Harding and Brian Stevens inspired by what they learnt and experienced during Te Tihi 2010. This will feature at the Long Gallery, Montsalvat in September 2010.

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