Julie Williams is a painter and print maker, exhibiting regularly in Australia and South East Asia. Informed by deep conversations with the history and presence of the places where she makes art, Julie’s work explores gateways, thresholds and bridges between worlds. Julie’s work continues to become ever more process-oriented and her more recent work indicates a distinct turn away from a focus on the outcome and into the territory of pure exploration. Her choice of materials has also supported this move into a more expressive style, centring her own experience rather than the viewer’s. Her recent focus on painting breaks away from both realism and descriptive colour with a trajectory towards the abstract that remains as yet another source of tension in her work.

Julie Williams was born in the UK, spent her early twenties in France, then migrated to Sydney, Australia in 1980. Here she built a career as a professional artist after attending the National Art School. In 2014 Julie moved to Asia, living, exhibiting and travelling widely before moving back to Australia.

Julie works out of her studios in Hill End, NSW and Freshwater, Sydney. Julie’s Hill End studio has been both a connection to artistic community and to the land, both of which deeply inform her practice. A regular touchpoint for dedicated time for contemplation and art-making throughout the years, the Hill End studio has become symbolic of her need for both space and connection.

Julie William’s latest artworks, out of her studio collective in Freshwater, Sydney, use reflective light, geometric form and the syncopation of a high key palette to play with abstraction of the landscape and placement of elements to broach the familiar theme of the tension between worlds.