About
Her work has been exhibited in Australia and New York, and featured in multiple publications and across television and film, including Grand Designs Australia.
Julia Chuquis is an Australian contemporary painter whose work explores restraint, presence, and the quiet authority of abstraction.
Her practice is grounded in an intuitive yet disciplined approach, allowing form to emerge through containment, erasure, and pause rather than overt gesture.
​​Drawing from the natural world as memory rather than motif, Chuquis’ paintings reference land, time, and surface without describing them. Muted palettes, layered fields, and considered negative space create works that invite sustained looking, rewarding stillness over immediacy.
Scale plays an important role in her practice. Larger works envelop rather than dominate, creating spatial experiences that hold presence without spectacle. Across her body of work, Chuquis maintains a consistent conceptual language — one that values what is withheld as much as what is revealed.
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