Julie Millowick has always worked commercially whilst simultaneously continuing her personal practice. During her studies at Prahran College of Advanced Education, Julie worked part-time in the darkroom and studio of AtholShmith/JohnCato/PeterBarr.
From 1977 she freelanced; her corporate industrial clients included Mayne Nickless, Westpac, Victorian Arts Centre, State Bank, Australian Wheat Board, Australian Wool Corporation. Julie was the only female industrial photographer working at that time in the Melbourne area.
In 1977, Millowick was part of a group exhibition at and curated by the National Gallery of Victoria that then went to the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
She has exhibited continuously including her entire exhibition called Familiar Stories, that in 1993 was included in Intimate Lives with Sally Mann, Nan Golden, Jacques Henri Latique at Fotofeis, Edinburgh.
In 2003 Robert Nelson, The Age, wrote of A Year in Our lives “Millowick’s exhibition is a tour de force in the medium….”
She is included in the 2010 publication Look: Australian Contemporary Photography since 1980, Author Anne Marsh, Macmillan.
Julie is in the collections of NGA, NLA, SLV, NGV, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Castlemaine Art Museum.
