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Iwantja SoakageJulie's paintings shimmer with exuberant energy. She captures the intensity and power of country where the Iwantja Tjukitji (Iwantja Soakage) is located, and which holds the story of the native owl. Julie was born in 1969 in the cool waters of the Iwantja creek, next to the large Soakage. The area is shaded by large gum trees, and the banks of the creek nestle close to large boulders. As a child she and her family lived here in a hand built shelter.

Her emergence as a painter coincided with a boom in Indigenous art sales

Tjimpuna uses traditional patterns that relate to rockhole (tjukula) or sand dune (tali)

both of which are depicted in her pieces

Her unique composition and the contemporary edge to her work reflects a keen sense of place retaining the importance of traditional country as inspiration for her art

Today she paints at Tjala Arts and the APY Studio in Adelaide

but is still available in sufficient quantities to be harvested and used

a grass long used by Indigenous people as an important food source

In doing so

This artwork

not just as Indigenous art

a man significantly older than herself

reflecting her significance in the contemporary art world

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