Julie Keating is an artist living in Melbourne. Primarily an oil painter, she is engaged in making small, often highly detailed works that are a little reminiscent of the Dutch Still-Life genre, though more minimalist in style.

Her paintings have been selected for a number of awards including the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour, the Lethbridge 10000, Brisbane, the Flanagan Prize, Ballarat, the Corangamarah Art Prize, Colac and the Mt. Eyre Vineyards Art Prize, in Sydney.

Her current series of paintings uses origami birds as an inanimate motif that, strangely enough, manage to depict human psychological states and encounters, creating a sense of un-ease and often dark humour enabling us to engage with the ‘birds’ and forget that they are nothing more than paper.