About Julia Meyerowitz-Katz
In her art making across different media, Julia’s interest is in exploring and representing emotional and psychological experience and relationship. Julia is an expressionist artist who uses lines, textures, marks and colour to interrogate and amplify individual and collective experience. Julia manipulates her materials in response to the nuance in changing internal and external environments and the impact of world events on individuals and community. Her work is an invitation to the viewer to sink 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 Jewish identity and experience 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 and 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.