Title

Juli, Mabel.

Author

Australian Art Print Network.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2001

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Mabel Juli

Aboriginal artist, Mabel Juli is a respected elder in Warmun, a community in the east Kimberley region of north Western Australia. She was born at Five Mile, near Moola Boola station and was taken as a baby to Sprinvale station, her mother’s country. She started work on the station as a little girl, and as a young woman moved to Bedford Downs and Bow River stations for work.

She started painting in the 1980s at the same time as other well known Warmun artists Queen McKenzie and Madigan Thomas.

She is a dedicated and innovative artist, best known for her work with acrylic paint on canvas, ochre painting and ochre drawing.

Her subjects and themes concern women — hills representing breasts and milk from around the Louisa Downs area south-west of Turkey Creek.

Juli has been short-listed in a number of prestigious exhibitions, including the Australian Heritage Commission Art Award in 1994. In 1995 she was part of the exhibition Paintings by Warmun Women in the Canberra-based Australian Girls Own Gallery.

Her work is represented in several prestigious Australian collections.

Biography courtesy of The Australian Print Network, 2001.

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