Julia Carter is an award-winning Australian artist, who lives on Queensland’s beautiful Sunshine Coast, with her studio hidden away amidst tranquil acreage, where she draws a great deal of her inspiration.

Originally from England, where she received her honours degree in sculpture, Julia has returned to the visual arts, following an eight-year teaching career. Her passion and dedication to painting have already rewarded her with a great deal of success, with her paintings being sold widely interstate and overseas.

Julia’s talent ranges from traditional breath-taking landscapes, sensual embellished nudes to contemporary mixed media abstracts, with bold colours and a vibrant energy, which connects all her work.

With her playful experimental approach, and energetic optimistic attitude towards life, her artwork celebrates the world in which she lives and conveys an overwhelming “joie de vivre” to every viewer.

1995 Graduate Diploma Education (QUT)
1989 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Art (Liverpool University, England)

2007 Exhibition Noosa Shire Council (April)
2007 Exhibition Maroochydore Council (February)
2006 Exhibition Noosa Shire Council (October)
2006 Exhibition Noosa Shire Council (February)
2005 Exhibition Noosa Shire Council (October)

2007 Noosa Regional Gallery Travelling scholarship
2007 Sunshine Coast Show
2007 Cudgerie Homestead Art Show, Cooroy
2007 Eumundi Spectacular
2007 Red Cross Calling, Noosa Regional Gallery
2006 Noosa Art Awards
2006 Sunshine Coast Show
2006 Lutheran Emmanual College Art Show, Maroochydore, Queensland
2006 A Place for Humanity Exhibition, Noosa Regional Gallery
2005 Caloundra Art Show
2005 Noosa Country Art Show
2005 Recycled Art, Noosa Council Library
2004 Noosa Outdoor Art Show

2006 RADF Funding for University of Southern Queensland, Summer School
2006 Scholarship for Autumn Grafton Artfest
2006 1st Prize Sunshine Coast Show, Contemporary Emerging Artist
2006 3rd Prize Sunshine Coast Show, Mixed Media
2006 Scholarship from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Winter School
2006 People’s Choice Award, Red Cross Exhibition Noosa Regional Gallery
2005 1st Prize Noosa Country Show, Landscape Section

2007 School Teacher – Department of Education, Qld
1995 Conference / Event management – Noosa Council, Qld
1994 Arts and Crafts Teacher- Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Qld
1993 Arts Festival Coordinator, Gallery Assistant – Noosa Regional Gallery
1990 EF Language School Teacher, Eastbourne, England
1987 Camp America Arts and Crafts Teacher, Pennsylvania

2007 Noosa Regional Gallery Society
2007 Noosa Arts and Crafts Association
2007 Arts Council Sunshine Coast
2007 Art Sync Sunshine Coast
2007 Art Workers Alliance
2007 Noosa Life Art Circle

2007 Metka Skrobar, Gold Coast, (Mixed Media)
2006 Metka Skrobar, Gold Coast, (Contemporary Acrylics /Female form)
2006 Donald Waters, Gold Coast (Contemporary Acrylics)
2006 Michael Taylor, Lismore (Life Drawing)
2006 Linda Ruhl, USA (Pastels and Portraiture)
2006 Metka Skrobar, Gold Coast (Mixed Media Landscapes)
2006 Robin Hines, Noosa (Contemporary Landscapes)
2006 Pauline Adair, Noosa (Life Drawing)
2006 Bill Mackay, Noosa (Weekly tuition and several Workshops)
2005 Nitza Flanz, Lismore (The Art of Colour)