Julie Nangala Robertson

Julie Nangala Robertson is an Australian Aboriginal artist of the Warlpiri people, born in 1973 and living in the community of Yuendumu in the Central Australian Desert. She is one of five daughters of Dorothy Napangardi (c.1953–2013), a renowned artist and Grand Prize winner at the prestigious annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin, in 2001. Since the late 1990s, often working with her mother, Julie has developed her own creative visual language, which consists of a fascinating blend of stylized experimentation and ancient storytelling.

Typically characterized by an aerial perspective and, more recently, a distinctive monochrome palette, Julie's current paintings, which depict the topographical features of her traditional territory, have become works of extraordinary optical brilliance, as she alternates the size of the dots throughout her work and constructs specific shapes or often repeated reference points with overlapping dots.

Julie has been painting with the Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Artists' Cooperative in Yuendumu since 2007. She paints the creation stories, or Jukurrpa, passed down by her mother and all mothers before her for millennia. Her work has been included in numerous Aboriginal art collections and exhibitions in Australia and internationally.

In 2023, Julie won the Overall Painting Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.