Julie Walker
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
ficklenellie@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/ficklenellie | www.instagram.com/ficklenellie/
Education:
2016 NCAT Create – CUV30111 Certificate III in Visual Arts
Northern College of the Arts & Technology
2013 Diploma of Early Childhood
Exhibitions:
Solo:
2014 “RetroSpective”, small works collection, Miss Marie’s Café, Rosanna, VIC
2016 Untitled , small works collection, Max’s Burger Bar & Pizza, Montmorency, VIC
2018 “Syzygy”, Folk Alley Cafe, St. Andrews General Store, St. Andrews, VIC
Joint:
3rd October – 18th December, 2015 “Piece by Piece”, Folk Alley Café, St. Andrews, VIC
15 May - 3 July, 2018 "Found", Bolin Bolin Gallery, Bulleen, VIC
17 February - 13 March, 2022 “Beyond the Page”, Loft 275, Ivanhoe, VIC
Group:
2014 “Branching Out”, ‘The Long Gallery’, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2014 “On the Surface”, Gasworks Art Parks Gallery, Albert Park, VIC
2014 “Fishy Business”, The Vine’s Cafe, Diamond Creek, VIC
2014 “Artists on Were”, Were Street, Montmorency, VIC
2015 Thou Art Mum “Up, Up & Away”, ‘The Long Gallery’, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2015 Thou Art Mum “Desaturate”, The Vine’s Café, Diamond Creek, VIC
2015 “Artists on Were”, Were Street, Montmorency, VIC
2015 Thou Art Mum “A Taste of TAM”, Bridges Restaurant, Hurstbridge, VIC
2016 Thou Art Mum “Scarlet Stories”, ‘The Long Gallery’, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2016 Banyule Art Salon, Hatch Gallery, Ivanhoe, VIC
2016“Artists on Were”, Were Street, Montmorency, VIC
2016 A1 Darebin Art Salon, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora, VIC
2016 “Art 4 All”, Fairfield Primary School, Fairfield, VIC
2016 Thou Art Mum “Spring @Riveresque”, Riveresque Interiors, Warrandyte, VIC
2016 NCAT Create, internal mid-year and end of year Exhibition, Preston, VIC
2016 NCAT Create, “Couchfest”, collaborative art installation, Preston, VIC
2016 Thou Art Mum “Meet Me @” The Vine’s Café, Diamond Creek, VIC
2016 “40 x 40”, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2017 Chimera, "Within the Grid", Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre, Preston, VIC
2017 "What Lies Beneath", Thou Art Mum, Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2017 “Artists on Were”, Were Street, Montmorency, VIC
2017 “Art 4 All”, Fairfield Primary School, Fairfield, VIC
2017 Chimera, “The Space Between (Us)”, Balkon Art Incubator, Preston, VIC
2017 Thou Art Mum, “Grids”, The Vines Café, Diamond Creek, VIC
2017 “Reading Art”, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, VIC
2018 "NSFW", BSide Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2018 Thou Art Mum, "In the Pink", The Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2018 Thou Art Mum, “Contrast”, The Vines Cafe, Diamond Creek, VIC
2019 Thou Art Mum, Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, Melb, VIC
2019 World Collage Atlas, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium
2019 Thou Art Mum, “Out of the Blue” The Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2019 Thou Art Mum, “Full Circle”, The Vines Cafe, Diamond Creek, VIC
2019 “Small”, Forty Five Downstairs, Melbourne, VIC
2019 “Linden Postcard Show”, Linden New Art Gallery, St. Kilda, VIC
2020 Thou Art Mum, “A4”, online exhibition.
2020 “Linden Postcard Show”, Linden New Art Gallery, St.Kilda, VIC
2021 “Banyule Art Salon”, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe, VIC
2021 Thou Art Mum, “Momentum”, The Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2021 “Fifty Squared Art Prize”, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2021. “Linden Postcard Show”, Linden New Art Gallery, St. Kilda, VIC
2022 Thou Art Mum, “The Artistry of Books”, Eltham Library Gallery, Eltham, VIC
2022 “Fifty Squared”, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2022 Thou Art Mum, “Community & Connection”, Loft 275 Gallery, Ivanhoe, VIC
2022 Banyule Art Salon, Art Gallery 275, Ivanhoe, VIC
2022 Banyule Open Studios Artists, “Step into an Artist’s World”, Loft 275 Gallery, Ivanhoe, VIC
2022 Thou Art Mum, “Nature’s Story”, The Barn Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2023 “Linden Postcard Show”, Linden New Art Gallery, St. Kilda, VIC
Awards:
TAM People’s Choice - 2014 “Branching Out”, The Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
TAM People’s Choice – 2015 “Up, Up & Away”, The Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
TAM People’s Choice – 2016 “Scarlet Stories”, The Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
Commissions:
2014 Private, Mosaic collaboration with Joanne Garner, Melbourne.
2020 Private, 2 paper collage, mixed media pieces.
Professional Development:
2015 Facebook workshop with Launchbubble, Nest Co-Working,
Thornbury, VIC
2015 Marketing for Creatives with Paul McCarthy, Greensborough, VIC
2016 Writing for Artists delivered by Christina Lew and Jessica
Velasquez, Hatch Gallery, Ivanhoe, VIC
2016 Navigating the Art World for Beginners, Workshop, Jodi Wiley, Hatch Gallery,
Ivanhoe, VIC
2017 "Collage in my Backyard" workshop with Anne Warren, Alphington, VIC
2017 Printmaking classes, Kathy Heyward, Manningham Artists’ Studios, VIC.
Memberships & Associations:
January, 2014 – March, 2023
Member of Thou Art Mum (TAM), a Diamond Valley based group of women artists in the northern suburbs of Melbourne who exhibit yearly.
April, 2017
Voluntary Committee member of Chimera Artists' Group. Assisted in curatorial and hanging of "Within the Grid" Exhibition.
2014 – 2016
Voluntary Public Officer, Committee, Thou Art Mum.
Duties include taking minutes at monthly meetings, communicating with members and committee.
August, 2015 – July, 2016
Exhibitions Sub-Committee Leader, Thou Art Mum (Voluntary).
Duties include co-ordinating exhibitions & artists, liaising with gallery, lead exhibition curation and oversee bump in/out, collaborate with Marketing Co-ordinator, Sub-Committee and TAM Committee
June, 2021 - October, 2023
Member of Banyule Open Studios.
A new collective group of local artists who practice and/or reside in the City of Banyule, opening their studios to the public and also exhibiting together annually.
2023/24
Associate member of The International Collage Guild of Creative Artists.
Reviews:
October, 2015 Weekend Notes (webpage)
http://www.weekendnotes.com/piece-by-piece-folk-alley-cafe/
July, 2016 Miss Rosanna Blog
http://missrosanna.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/local-profile-julie-walker.html