Julia Powles lives and works in Melbourne. Julia is an artist, curator and arts educator, with a background in fine art conservation. Having trained originally in drawing and painting her art practice now includes film and video work, along with an emerging curatorial practice.

Education:
2013 - Master of Art Curatorship, University of Melbourne
           Cert IV in Training and Assessment TAE40110, NMIT
2010 - Diploma of Vocational Education and Training Practice (Teaching), School of Education, RMIT University
2007 - Master of Arts by Research, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2005 - Certificate IV in Workplace Training, School of Education, RMIT University
1996 - Graduate Diploma (Fine Art), School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
1989 - Year 5 Drawing (Hons equiv), University of Fine Arts, Granada, Spain
1988 - Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

Solo exhibitions:
2010 - Dancing Without Lessons, Blindside ARI, Melbourne.
2007 - Drift, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
2002 - 50kms North of Darwin, Mass Gallery, Melbourne.
2001 - Digress, Westspace, Melbourne.
           Interval, Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT Melbourne
1998 - Weight, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1997 - Transfer, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 - Things that remain, a project with Steve Cox, Greg Pryor, Leo Zylberberg and Jess  

           Crowe; curator Peter Westwood. Jenny Port Gallery, Melbourne
           The Uncertain Nature of Water, a City of Port Philip project exhibiting work made  

           with the support of the Rupert Bunny Foundation, St Kilda Town Hall Gallery
           The Mars Project, Project Space and Spare Room Gallery, RMIT University
2007 - Polar Mark, with Jennifer Mills and Kieran Boland, Project Space/Spare Room. RMIT   

           University, Melbourne
2005 - City of Hobart Art Exhibition, Art Gallery of Tasmania, Hobart
           Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Geelong
           National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Mornington
           Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery
2004 - Waterman Natural History Prize, Museum of South Australia, Adelaide
           Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery
2003 - Surface Tension, Mornington Regional Gallery, Mornington
            Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Geelong
            MCGovern Memorial Award for Landscape, Melbourne

Contact:

web: www.juliapowles.com
e-mail: julia_powles (at) iprimus.com.au