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

2024. “Incognito Art Show”, Sydney, NSW

2024. “NCAT Create Decade Alumni Exhibition”, Northern College Arts & Technology, Preston, 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.

2023 Private, full sized collage mannequin.

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