Statement and Bio

My practice exists at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and fibre art, challenging conventional boundaries between these genres. I work with house paint as a sculptural, pliable material, transforming it into tactile constructions that explore surface, structure, and the expressive capacity of form and colour.

Themes of memory, place, and belonging run through my work. Having lived and worked across multiple countries, I often return to the shifting rhythms of dislocation and adaptation, and to the ongoing cycle of connection, loss, and renewal.

My use of paint as thread carries a personal lineage of making, recalling memories of my mother and grandmother teaching me to knit, and my grandfather’s machine-knitting business. Though abstract, each piece carries a trace of narrative through the suggestion of fragmented stories and attachments.

Repetition, unravelling, and spatial tension mirror the experience of starting over—the uncertainty before stability, the rupture before reconnection. By deconstructing and reconfiguring the familiar, I aim to unsettle expectation and create a tactile, sensorial encounter that invites viewers to engage with paint as a vessel for memory, transformation, and belonging.

Julee Latimer is a UK-born artist based in Melbourne. She earned a BFA in Sculpture and Painting from Curtin University (Perth, 2019) and first gained recognition for her sculptural mosaic work, later publishing Sculptural Secrets for Mosaic (Schiffer Publishing, 2017). She also holds qualifications in Interior Design and Colour Therapeutics.

Latimer’s work has been recognized as a finalist in major art prizes and is included in permanent collections internationally, including Hotel Capella (Sydney), Conrad Orchard (Singapore), and the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (Chicago, USA). She has exhibited widely across Australia as well as in New York, Italy, and Singapore.

Her practice offers a distinctive voice in contemporary painting and sculpture, bridging genres with a bold, textural approach and a global perspective.