About Julia Meyerowitz-Katz
Julia is an expressionist artist who focuses on exploring and representing emotional and psychological dynamics. Julia manipulates her materials to interrogate and amplify individual and collective experience in response to the nuance in changing internal and external environments and the impact of world events on individuals and community. As she works, Julia moves across and through surfaces, deliberately leaving a palimpsest of traces. Her work invites viewers into an immersion into a sensory meditation via a visual journey through layers of marks and movement of surface colour.
Over time, symbolic content to do with her life as a Jewish woman with multiple roles has become integrated into her interest in the formal elements of painting and drawing. Since the October 7th 2023 pogrom in southern Israel and the explosion of antisemitism and antizionism in its aftermath, Julia has used her art practice to explore and represent her experiences of intergenerational and communal trauma, grief and resilience including post-traumatic growth. Julia has written about her process in Against Silence. In: Kofman, L., Paluch, T. (2025) ‘Ruptured’ Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life post-October 7. Melbourne: Lamm Jewish Library.
With a life-long interest and practice in art making and looking, Julia is inspired at different times by a range of artists who include de Kooning, Pollock, Bacon, Bonnard, Chagall, Salomon, Kiff, Soutine, Emin, Guston, Mitchell, Munch, Kitaj, Rego, Picasso, and Velazquez.
Julia is an ANZSJA-trained Jungian Analyst with extensive experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy and art psychotherapy with children, adults and couples, in a variety of mental health settings and in private practice. Her teaching roles span ANZSJA’s C.G. Jung Institute training as well as Master’s in Art Psychotherapy programmes in both the UK and Australia. She has published and co-edited works focusing on art psychotherapy for young children and their carers, psychoanalytic work with couples, and most recently Julia contributed to an anthology of Australian Jewish women’s experience post October 7th.