Staff profile

Ms Julie Millowick

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Graphics Enginnering Building, Room 2.43A, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

Dip. Art & Design PC.A.E, MA (RMIT).

Membership of professional associations

National Association of Visual Artists, Regional Arts Victoria.

Area of study

Visual Arts

Brief profile

Millowick was part of the National Gallery of Victoria Group Exhibition “Australian New York” in the year after her graduation from Prahran College of Advanced Education. Millowick worked in the photographic industry in Melbourne for 17 years, before her appointment as a Lecturer at LTU. She believes passionately in the power of the photographic image to change lives, and in her role as a Lecturer at La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus, she teaches according to that philosophy.

Millowick maintains a constant exhibition programme and her work moves across the genres of documentary – digital panoramas, the vintage technique of the photogram and narrative. Her commitment to documenting people and environmental conditions in her own region of Central Victoria is constant and ongoing. Millowick has work in the collections of The National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, La Trobe Print Collection State Library of Victoria, Monash Gallery of Art, the Regional Art Galleries of: Castlemaine, Bendigo, Horsham, Warrnambool.

Research specialisation

- Fine Arts

- Visual Communication

Teaching units

  • VPA1PJ1/2 - Photojournalism.
  • VPA2PJ3/4 - Photojournalism.
  • VPA3PJ5/6 - Photojournalism.
  • VPA1TMA/B - Theory and Methodologies.
  • VPA1MWA/B - Media Workshop.

Recent publications

  • Beyond Reasonable Drought, [Five Mile Press ISBN] 2000-2009

Exhibitions

  • Millowick, J 2010, 19 February – 15 March, Artlab, Adelaide Fringe, Close to Home.
  • Millowick, J 2009, 4 September – 4 October Millowick, Gold Museum, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Close to Home.
  • Millowick, J 2009, 4 September – 4 October, Old Butcher Shop, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Portraits of a Century.
  • Millowick, J 2009, April, Castlemaine State Festival, Traces of Memory, In Their Own Words.
  • Millowick, J 2008, 14 July-14 Sept, Millowick, Watson Arts Centre, VIVID: The National Photography Festival, Traces of Memory.
  • Millowick, J 2007, 29 March-22 April, Millowick, La Trobe Gallery Exhibition Centre, Traces of Memory.
  • Millowick, J 2007, 4 June – 4 July, Millowick, Daylesford Foto Biennale, Convent Gallery.
  • Millowick, J 2007, October – November, Millowick, Botanical Symbols of the Goddess, Falkner Gallery, Castlemaine.
  • Millowick, J 2006, 12 Aug-6 Nov, Millowick, Millowick, Monash Gallery of Art, Traces of Memory.

Research projects

  • Beyond Reasonable Drought
  • Traces of Memory