Julia Chuquis

Beauty is not superficial — it is felt, lived, and remembered.
Julia Chuquis is an Australian contemporary abstract expressionist painter whose work explores landscape not as a place, but as a state of being. Drawing from long-standing connections to nature, her paintings emerge through quiet observation, memory, and lived experience rather than direct representation.
Working primarily with layered acrylic and oil, Chuquis builds surfaces through accumulation and restraint. Muted palettes, suspended forms, and visible traces of earlier decisions create a sense of depth and endurance. Veils of translucency allow earlier layers to remain present, held rather than concealed.
Deeply connected to the natural world, Chuquis approaches painting as a practice of observation and presence. Time spent in nature continues to shape her practice, informing works that seek not to depict a landscape, but to evoke how it is felt — expansive, grounding, and quietly transformative.
Her compositions resist overt narrative in favour of presence. Forms evoke geological and internal landscapes shaped by stillness, weathering, and quiet continuity. Meaning is not imposed but allowed to surface slowly, inviting contemplative engagement.
Julia releases only...

* Adelaide Central School of Art
* Milan Art Institute

Selected Exhibitions
• One Space Art Gallery, Interconnecting Lines, New York
• Times Square Digital Exhibition, New York
• ALA Gallery, Fiercely Feminine, Gold Coast & Melbourne
• ALA Gallery, Less Is More: Minimalism in Contemporary Art, Melbourne
• Art Lovers Australia Gallery, Bold, Melbourne
• Bluethumb Gallery, Hyde Park, South Australia