Engagement + Radio Practice
Alongside studio practice, I host an arts-focused radio program that documents creative voices and regional cultural life. Conversation and making operate together: one preserves stories, the other preserves form. This engagement with community and dialogue informs a practice grounded in place, material, and shared creative experience.
Julie Winn
I am a sculptural practitioner working with botanical form through porcelain and structural materials. My work explores the tension between fragility and permanence, using delicate hand-formed elements that are anchored into weighty or architectural structures. Repetition, clustering, and spatial arrangement reflect an ongoing interest in how fleeting natural forms can be held, supported, and preserved.
Materials + Place
Material contrast is central to the practice. Porcelain brings light, translucency, and delicacy, while black clay and cement introduce density, shadow, and structural presence. These relationships create a dialogue between softness and weight, vulnerability and endurance. Working within the Barossa landscape, observation of seasonal change and plant life informs both the rhythm of making and the physical presence of each work.
Exhibitions & Professional Development
2025
Flowers & Flight — JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide
Heart of Darkness — JamFactory Gallery, Seppeltsfield
2024
Finalist — Stanthorpe Art Prize
SALA Open Studio Event
Artist-in-Residence — JamFactory Seppeltsfield
2023
Group Exhibition, BIOME — Wonderground Gallery, SA
2022
SALA Open Studio Event
Finalist — Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
2021
Invited Artist Display — Brisbane Grammar School
Finalist — Petite Pieces, Aspire Gallery QLD
Solo Exhibition — Caboolture Art Gallery QLD
2020
Finalist — Stanthorpe Art Prize
Finalist — Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards
Artwork on Display — St Vincent’s Hospital Art Collection QLD
Window Exhibition — Pine River Gallery
2019
Finalist — Siliceous Award Exhibition
Finalist — Moreton Bay Art Award
Professional Development
2025
Radio Broadcasting & Interview Training — BBBfm 89.1 Community Radio
Gaya Ceramics Bali, Indonesia — Two-Week Intensive Workshop with Judit Varga