Julie Dowling
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about

A biography of Julie Dowling describing her life as an artist with a critical analysis of her work within the context of fine art
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Julie Dowling was born in Subiaco, Western Australia.
Growing up in both semi-rural and urban areas in a large Badimaya extended family.

Working in a social realist style, Dowling draws on diverse art traditions including European portraiture and Christian icons, mural painting and Badimaya First Nation iconography.

Dowling works like an ethnographer, recording the deep-seated injustices in the Indigenous community. Her pictorial works have a strong political edge, however, she speaks as a de-colonised subject and subverts the traditional power relations between the observer and the observed, the colonizer and the de-colonised.

She was awarded a Diploma of Fine Art at Claremont School of Art in 1989, a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University in 1992, an Associate Diploma in Visual Arts Management at Perth Metropolitan TAFE in 1995 and Honorary Doctorate in Literature (Honoris Causa) from Murdoch University 2002.

Since her first solo exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre in 1995, Dowling has earned a substantial national and international reputation as an artist of extraordinary vision.

Her work has been exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally, notably at Art Fair Cologne in 1997, Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art, 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, and the RAKA AWARD: Places that name us, ‘Strange Fruit’
a retrospective of 15 years at The Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2003. K1 #5 Cologne - Germany in 2017,
'Babanyu (Friends for Life) Art Gallery of Western Australia 2018.


Note:
Julie Dowling identifies culturally & politically as a Badimaya First Nation woman and not as an 'Australian Aboriginal'.

Dowling is known as an artist & activist within Australia using the research methodologies of her Badimaya culture while creating a uniquely global art as she is the first in her family to go online using the internet.

Dowling is also inter-sectional as she is disabled and a fair-skinned First Nation woman.


Julie Dowling © 2020
  • About
  • CV
  • Publications
  • Collections
  • Gallery
    • Solo Shows >
      • JULIE DOWLING 2019
      • Wiru (Strong Spirit)
      • Malga Gurlbarl (Hard Secret)
      • Yagu Gurlbarl (Big Secret)
    • Group Shows
    • Competitions
    • Paintings of Family
    • Icons >
      • Large Icons
      • Mid-Sized Icons
      • Small Icons
      • Large Icon Series
      • Mid-Sized Icon Series
      • Small Icon Series
    • Black Works >
      • Large Chiaroscuro
      • Mid-Sized Chiaroscuro
      • Small Chiaroscuro
    • Works on paper >
      • Ink
      • Pastel
      • Mixed Media
    • Multimedia >
      • Film
      • Computer Art
      • Photography
      • Metaverse
    • Self Portraits
    • Cartoons >
      • KOORI MAIL CARTOONS 2004-06
      • NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES CARTOONS 2010-13 >
        • NIT CARTOONS 2010
        • NIT CARTOONS 2011
        • NIT CARTOONS 2012
        • NIT CARTOONS 2013
      • RACISM IN SPORT 2006
    • CERAMICS
    • STUDIO BLOG
  • News
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Affiliates
  • Community
    • Badimaya Land Rights
    • Western Australia Nuclear Free Alliance
    • Resistance Fighters >
      • Resistance Fighters Remembered
      • Resistance Fighters Today
    • Standing Up for Noongar Boodja & Kaip
    • Warida Online Radio