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Julie Dowling
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Warida kinship, Badimaya First Nation.
Born: 1969, Subiaco, Western Australia.
Lives: Maddington, Western Australia.
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EDUCATION:
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1995 - 1st year Associate Diploma in Visual Arts Management, Perth Metropolitan TAFE, WA
1992 - Bachelor of Fine Art, Curtin University, WA
1989 - Diploma of Fine Art, Claremont School of Art, Perth, WA​
2002 - Honorary Doctorate in Literature (Honoris Causa), Murdoch University, WA.
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SOLO/SURVEY SHOWS
2023 - 'Barna wagu nganmi (Sacred home of good people)', Niagara Galleries, Richmond, Victoria, Australia.
2019 - 'Julie Dowling', Niagara Galleries, Richmond, Victoria, Australia.
2018 - 'Wiru', Midland Junction Art Gallery in junction with Mundaring Art Center & Yamaji Art, Midland, WA.
- 'Babanyu (Friends for Life)', Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia.
2017/18 - 'Malga Gurbarl (Hard Secret)', K1 #5 -Seipple Gallery, (touring) Cologne to Berlin, Germany.
- 'Yagu Gurlbarl (Big Secret)', (touring with Art on the Move) Geraldton Regional Art Gallery to WA regional, WA.
2017 - 'Yagu Gurbarl (Big Secret)', Geraldton Regional Gallery, WA.
2016 - 'Burda Burda Dhulga (Telling a Story with Songlines)' - Joondalup Art Gallery, Joondalup, WA.
2014 - ‘Wiru Bandyi (Spirit Possessions)’ - Heiser Gallery, Queensland, Australia
- ‘Mirnuwa Wagu (Showing Home) - Harvison Gallery, Northbridge, WA
2013 - ‘Eewa Warnda* - spiritual love’- Michael Reid, Sydney.
2012 - ‘Julie Dowling ’ - Niagara Galleries, Victoria
- ‘Julie Dowling ; Family & Friends’ – Lawrence Wilson Gallery, UWA, WA
2011 - ‘Maddington’- Mossenson’s Gallery, Perth, WA
2010 - ‘Kuljak Djilba: Black Swan in September’, Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne
2008 - ‘Oottheroongoo (Your Country)’ Multi Media Installation, PICA, Perth, WA
- ‘Eegarra Beearaba (To Arise From Sorrow)’ - Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne
2007 - ‘Strange Fruit: Testimony and Memory in Julie Dowling’s Portraits’ - Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2006 - ‘Widi Boornoo (Wild Message)’- fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC
- ‘Contrary Marban (Magic)’ - Caruana Reid, Sydney, NSW
- ‘Nidja Widi (This is wild) - Works on paper’ - Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2005 - ‘Winyarn Budjarri (Sorry Birth)’- fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC
- ‘Marban Unna(Spiritual Magic Eh?)’ - Galerie Seippel, Koeln, Germany
2004 - ‘Warridah Sovereignty’- Artplace, Perth, WA
2003 - ‘...Yes, Boss!’ - Artplace, Perth,WA.
2002 - ‘...big womanhead...’ Artplace, Perth,WA
2001 - ‘Melbin’, Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2000 - ‘Julie Dowling’ - Artplace, Perth, WA
1999 - ‘Julie Dowling’ - Festival of Perth, Artplace
- ‘Julie Dowling’ - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
1996 - ‘Julie Dowling’ - Artplace, Claremont, Perth
1995 - ‘Secrets About Being Strong‘, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
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2024 - 'Dance Me To The End Of Love: Journeys From Birth To Death In The SAM Collection', Shepparton Art Museum,
Victoria, Australia.
- 'The End of History', Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Western Australia.
- 'Southbound - women artists from Chile - South Africa - Australia', Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany.
- ‘An Enduring Exuberance: Murdoch University's Art Collection turns 50’, Parliament of Western Australia.
2023 - '30 Jahre Galerie Seippel', Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
- 'Black Sky', Berndt Museum, the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,
UWA, Australia
- 'Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia’ Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
2022 - 'Important Australian Indigenous Art' Philip Bacon Galleries, Fortitude Valley, Queensland Australia
- 'Julie Dowling: Bidya Gurlbal (Open Secret)' The John Curtin Gallery, Waterford, Western Australia, Australia
2021 - 'Balancing Act: Our story is not one story, but many stories to share' State Art Gallery of
Western Australia, Australia.
- 'Matter: Works from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art', University of Western Australia
- 'Know My Name' National Gallery of Australia.
- 'A Family Album' Boroondara Arts, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn Victoria, Australia
- 'Observance' Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne’s Southbank, Victoria, Australia
2019 - 'The Artist and Her Work: Cruther's Collection of Women's Art' Lawrence Wilson Gallery, UWA, Australia.
- 'Vis-ability: Artwork from the QUT Art Collection', Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia.
- 'The Alternative Archive: Truth, Myths & Legends of the Midwest', Gallery West/Geraldton
Regional Gallery, WA, Australia.
- 'Cases De La Terre De Lewin (Géographe Bay, W.A.), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia.
- 'While You Were Sleeping', aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
- 'Danjoo - Interwoven' Midland Junction Arts Centre, WA, Australia.
2018 - 'Inner Atmospheres', Perth Comic Arts Festival, Edith Cowan University, Mt.Lawley Western Australia
- 'HERE&NOW18: Besides, it is always the others who die', Lawrence Wilson Gallery,
University of Western Australia
- 'HEAD-TO-HEAD: Shifting perspectives in Australian portraiture', Flinders University City Gallery,
Adelaide, South Australia
- 'Directors Cut', John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.
- 'Colony: Frontier Wars', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 'Ever-present: Recent Works from the SAM Collection', Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria, Australia.
2017 - 'FavourEconomy: Stations' - George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 'Country and Colony' - Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery University of Western Australia
2016-17 - 'Dissenting Voices' - Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA
2016 - 'Invisible Genres' - Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA
- Blue Chip XVIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, VIC, Australia
- The Waiting Room, Artbank Gallery, Sydney, NSW
- 'Sacred and Scarred', City Art Space, City of Perth, WA
- 'For Country, for Nation', National War Memorial, ACT, Australia
- 'Important Conversations', New Norcia Art Gallery, WA
2015-16 - 'RESISTANCE' - Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA
2015 - ‘Storm in a Teacup’ - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
- ‘Stations of the Cross’ – McGlade Gallery, ACU, Strathfield NSW
- ‘Stations of the Cross’ – Wesley Uniting Church, Perth, WA
- ‘The Pinjarra Massacre Memorial exhibition’ Touring WA; Collie, Rockingham, WA
- 'Object Lessons' - Lawrence Wilson Gallery, UWA, WA
- 'JUMPstart: Just Kids'. University of Queensland Art Museum. University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD
2014 - ‘Fields of Vision: Art & Astronomy’ - Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2013 - ‘Message Stick: Indigenous Identity In Urban Australia’ – Touring; Australia,
South Africa, The Seychelles, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia.
2012 - ‘murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary Art’ - Halle am Wasser & Preview Berlin - Germany. - 'LOOK. LOOK AGAIN : Cruthers Collection of Woemn's Art' - Lawrence Wilson Gallery UWA, WA
- ‘Wonderland’ - Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan.
- ‘Heiser Gallery (Queensland)Stand’ - Melbourne Art Fair 2012
2011 - ‘Pinjarra Massacre Memorial Exhibition’ - Western Australia Museum, Perth, WA
2010 - ‘Slow Burn’ - S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2009 - ‘Culture Warriors’- Katzen Arts Centre, American University, Washington USA
- ‘Terra Nullis’ - ACC Galerie Weimar, and Halle 14 Leipziger Baumwollspinnerie, Leipzig, Germany
- ‘Show you colours’, Musem voor Hedendaagse Aboriginal Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- ‘Women in the Bible: Tricksters, Victors and (M)others’ - Jewish Museum of Austrlia, Melbourne, VIC
2010 - ‘The National Artists’ Self Portrait Prize’ - University of Queensland, QLD
- ‘A Fairy’s Tale’ - Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
2008 - ‘Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories from 1770’ - Hazlehurst Regional Gallery
- ‘Recovering Lives’ - Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2009 - ‘Premier of QL National Art Award in New Media’ - Queensland Art Gallery, QLD
2007 - ‘Culture Warriors - First National Indigenous Art Triennial’ - NGA, ACT
- ‘Accrochage - Malerei’ – Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
2006 - ‘Prism-Contemporary Australian Art’ - Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
- ‘Stories: Country Spirit Knowledge & Politics’ - Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
- ‘Dreaming their Way’ - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington USA
- ‘Right here, right now’- NGA, ACT
- ‘Sub-terrain’ - UWA, Perth International Arts Festival, PICA, WA
- ‘Dancelines’ - George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre, VIC
- ‘Land Marks’ - National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
2005-6 - ‘Australië, het land en de mensen’ - Rijkesmuseum voor Volkerkunde, Leiden, Holland
2005 - ‘Murdoch University Art Collection presents Julie Dowling, Galliano Fardin, Theo Koning, Artopia’
- ‘The Human Image by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Artists’ - Kluge-Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia USA
2004 - ‘Artplace Group Show 2004’ - Artplace, WA
- ‘Colour Power’ - National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
- ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2004’ - Artplace Stand, Melbourne, VIC
- ʻTerra Alterius- Land of Anotherʼ - Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Paddington, NSW
- ʻSpirit & Vision: Aboriginal Artʼ, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
2003 - ‘Artplace Group Show 2003’ - Artplace, Perth, WA
- ʻPlaces that Name Usʼ - Kate Challis RAKA Award , The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
- ‘The 2003 Portia Geach Memorial Award’ - S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
- Ê»ART AUSTRALIA - Zeitgenössische Kunstʼ - Kunst:Raum Sylt-Quelle, Galerie Seippel Koeln and
Staetische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
- 'MCA unpacked II : six Australian artists select works from the MCA collection'
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- ʻHeatʼ - Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, QLD
2002 - ‘Artplace Group Show 2002’ - Artplace, Perth, WA
- “love your work” - Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
- ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2002’ - Artplace Stand, Melbourne, VIC
- “Urban Blackness” - Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
- “itʼs a beautiful day” - New Painting in Australia: 2, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, and Art Galleryof NSW
- ‘Archibald National Portrait Prize’ - Art Gallery of NSW, NSW
- Ê»Native Title Business’ - Quay Street Gallery (touring Nationally ), QLD
- Ê»Spirit Country: Gantner Myer collection of contemporary Aboriginal art’ - Melbourne Museum, VIC
2001 - ‘Blake Prize’ - UNSW(touring exhibition), NSW
- ‘Mine Own Executioner’ - Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, WA
- Ê»Federation’ - NGA, Canberra, ACT (Touring exhibition)
- ‘Bunbury Biennale’ - Bunbury, WA
- ‘City of Joondalup invitation art prize’, Joondalup, WA
- ‘Archibald National Portrait Prize’ - Art Gallery of NSW
- ‘Art 01’ - The WA Art Fair, Artplace Stand,Perth,WA
2000 - ‘Beyond the Pale - Adelaide Biennale’ - AGSA, Adelaide, SA
- ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2000’, Artplace stand, VIC
- ʻMum Shirl Tribute Exhibitionʼ - Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Co-operative, Sydney, NSW
- ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’ - touring exhibition, State Library NSW.
- ‘Mandorla Religious Art Award’ - Moores Building, Fremantle, WA
- ʻSide by Sideʻ - AGWA, Perth, WA
- ʻAcrossʻ - Canberra School of Art, National Touring exhibition, ACT
- ‘Mornington Peninsula Works on Paper Prize’, Mornington Peninsula, NSW
1999 - ʻAboriginal Kunst aus West Australianʻ, Galerie Gaswerk, Schwabach, Germany
- ʻPeople, places, pastimes: Challenging perspectives of Ipswichʻ, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, QLD
- ʻGenerations, the stolen years of fighters & singersʻ, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth,WA
- ʻCeremony, identity and communityʻ - South African National Gallery, Capetown, South Africa
1998 - ‘Kate Challis RAKA Award’ - Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, VIC
- ‘Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair’, ACAF 6,Melbourne, Artplace Stand, VIC
- ‘15thNational Aboriginal & Torres Islander Art Award’, NT Museum & Art Gallery, NT
- ʻLandscapeʻ - Charles Sturt University, NSW
- ʻCeremony, Identity and Communityʼ - Flinders Art Museum Gallery, Adelaide, SA
1997 - ‘Art Fair Cologne’ - Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Germany
- ʻDaughters of the Dreamingʻ - AGWA, WA
1996 - ‘Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair’ - ACAF·5, Artplace Stand, Melbourne
- ʻArt and Politicsʼ - UWA, Nedlands, WA
- ʻOut of Australiaʼ - PICA, Perth, WA
- ʻH.J Wedge and Julie Dowlingʻ - Gallery Gabrielle Pizza, Melbourne, VIC
- ʻGuddhabungarʼ - The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
-Ê»Wijay Na ........?’ - 24HR Art, Darwin, NT
1995 - ʻUrban Belonging: The Raw Edgeʻ - AGWA, Perth, WA
- ʻOn a Missionʻ - Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Coop, Sydney, NSW
- ‘11th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art AwardÊ», NTMAG, Darwin, NT
- ʻbur-ran-gur- ang (court out) - Women and the Lawʻ, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, UWA, WA
1994 - ‘Small Spaces: Curtin Students Painting’ Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA
1993 - ‘National Graduate Degree Show, PICA, (Touring), Perth, WA
- ʻKyana Aboriginal Cultural Showʼ, Perth Esplanade, WA
GRANTS & AWARDS:
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2013 - Finalist - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
- Finalist Archibald Portrait Prize
2008 - Finalist National New Media Award Queensland Art Gallery
2006 - Honorary Doctorate in Literature, Murdoch University, Perth WA
- Australia Council Fellowship
- Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award
2003 - Finalist RAKA Award
2002 - Finalist Archibald Portrait Prize
2001 - The People’s Choice Award; 18th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art Award
- Finalist - Archibald Portrait Prize
2000 - Winner - Mandorla Award for Religious Art
- Winner (Painting) - 17th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
- Finalist - NAIDOC Aboriginal Artist of the Year
- Finalist - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1998 - Australia Council Development Grant
- Artist in Residence, Curtin University
- Finalist RAKA Award
1997 - Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award
1995 - Australia Council Development Grant.
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