In the past three years Julia has spent considerable energy developing her work by participating in a series of residency programs. In Sydney She has contributed to the Waverly Artist Studios, ARP Studio Residency, and Woollahra Artist in Residence program as well as the Culture at work emerging Artist program. More recently in 2016, she undertook a series of international residencies at Takt Artist Residency in Berlin and was awarded a fellowship at the Scuola di Graphica Internationale in Venice for three months. She had also held several solo exhibitions at SNO, Factory49, Articulate project space, Home735 Gallery. She has also been a finalist in the Fischer’s Ghost art award, Soya award and the Mosman art prize and achieved a significant solo exhibition at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery as a result of the residency period.