Julia grew up on a cattle farm in country Victoria, the middle girl of four boys. Her Mum says she didn’t know she was a girl till she was 5, which might explain the over-compensation with pastel pinks and polka dots. Julia learned the piano, played tennis, and even rode the occasional horse, but drawing was her first love.
She was one of the founding members of Melbourne electro group SNOG, contributing to several albums and producing music videos for the band. She also played keyboards with Indigenous pop-star Christine Anu, which led her to mime on national TV with the cast of Home & Away and tour Asia with Tommy Emmanuel. Strangley, Julia felt show business wasn’t for her and she soon handed over her keys to the guy from Wa Wa Nee.
Rewind to 2000, and Julia completes a graduate diploma of Animation (Film & Television) at the VCA in Melbourne. She wins the award for Best Animation for her short film Angel Food. Yay! Angel Food screened in loads of International Film Festivals including the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival in France, and was a finalist at the Sydney Dendy awards and Melbourne Short Trips Film Festival. Julia then embarked on a super-dooper ambitious film called Glossy, which even received funding from Screen Australia. Double Yay! ! The film took years to make but was finally completed in 2011. Glossy has screened in Los Angeles, California, Korea, and was awarded a Silver Ace award at the Las Vegas Film Festival. It was also nominated for Best Animation at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto and awarded Highly Commended at the W.O.W. Film Festival in Sydney. The main legacy of this film were Julia’s talks at MIAF (The Melbourne International Animation Festival) where she gave a blow by blow account of how not to let your project get out of control. A lesson well learnt indeed.
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