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Julia was born in Germany in 1983 and brought up amongst 3 brothers. After graduating from school with the german Abitur in 2003 she temporarily volunteered in a project for street children in Cape Town before moving to South Africa in 2005 to study Fine Arts. In 2007 she moved back to Germany to continue her studies near Dortmund and, later, Hamburg, where she focused on free-drawing and received her Bachelor of Arts from the Design Faculty of the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, in 2013. Her book 'Fremde', a figurative and narrative investigation of dependencies, conditional and unconditional love and powerlessness in relationships between parents and children, was published in 2012 in a limited edition by the independent book label 'Mami Verlag'. Julia exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Japan during and after her studies including, for example, 'Reeper Reeper' which was curated during the Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg 2013 by gallerist Ralf Krüger and 'How We Quit the Forest', curated by Kasia Nagorska in 2015 for INCUBARTE 7, International Art Festival, Valencia, Spain. In 2014 she received the Hamburg 'add art' grant that encourages companies in Hamburg to support emerging artists by providing exhibition space as well as a grant. In 2015 as a finalist of the competition 'Art Olympia' Tokyo, Japan, Julia recieved the 'First Round Award'. Having started predominantly figuratively and narratively, her focus has consistently shifted towards abstraction. Being experimental and in constant search for new ways of using classical materials, Julia pushes the boundaries of her favorite medium, drawing. Her process-focused work is based on an intensely intuitive approach that engages mainly with the phenomena of contradictions in the human-nature relationship. Impressions of her travels around Africa and Asia have nurtured her visual language as much as the forest-dominated landscapes of her childhood and the construction site she had grown up in. Julia is currently living and working in Ronda, Spain.