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Iwantja SoakageJulie's paintings shimmer with exuberant energy. She captures the intensity and power of country where the Iwantja Tjukitji (Iwantja Soakage) is located, and which holds the story of the native owl. Julie was born in 1969 in the cool waters of the Iwantja creek, next to the large Soakage. The area is shaded by large gum trees, and the banks of the creek nestle close to large boulders. As a child she and her family lived here in a hand built shelter.

In 2012 she was a finalist in the Indigenous Ceramic Art Awards at Shepparton Art Museum

he and his brother walked to Yuendumu and later joined their family at Papunya in 1956

Dreaming passed down on her father’s side

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and numerous other international cities

and later moved to Amata Community

The the painting represents the country associated with the Janganpa Jukurrpa (Brush-tailed Possum) is Mungapunju a hill south of Yuendumu

ensuring the transmission of cultural knowledge and practices

but later moved to Watiyawanu (Mount Liebig - 325 km west of Alice Springs) (with her husband Norman Kelly

Wildflowers dot the vast plains

after which she returned permanently to Utopia with her six children

who ‘grew her up’ in Indigenous terms