User:JulieDowling/sandbox

Julie Dowling (Artist) Julie Ann Dowling (ˈʤuːliː Dowling; 30th January 1969) is a Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artist & film maker from the Badimaya/Badimia First Nation, Western Australia. Dowling produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, film, photography, print making and digital media. She is considered one of the more important figures in contemporary Indigenous Fine Arts within Australia as she is the first to paint almost exclusively within the portraiture genre. Throughout her career she has become known as an auto-ethnographer, a commentator and chronicler of her era. Known for it's

She was born to a poor family in 1969 in Subiaco in Western Australia. She studied Fine Art at Claremont School of Art and then Fine Art (Painting) at Curtin University both located in Western Australia.

Dowling has painted confrontational subject matter involving prominent people such as actors, resistance fighters, writers, historians, historical portrait subjects.She has also portrayed herself and her own family in order to decolonize herself and to educate others against racism.

After a career or 25 years in Fine Art Dowling was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature (honoris causa) from Murdoch University in 2006.

In 2008 Dowling produced her first film art series and instillation called Oottheroongoo(Your Country) about her journey back to her ancestral home in Badimaya country in mid Western Australia.

Dowling has reflected on many subjects facing herself and her community of First Nation people with such subjects as forced child removal, violent racism, government control, cultural genocide, women's equality and the destruction of the environment.

She continues to exhibit nationally throughout Australia and the world.