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Julie Ewington is a writer, curator and broadcaster based in Sydney. An authority on contemporary Australian art, especially art by women, and contemporary art from Southeast Asia, she has held both academic and curatorial positions, always focusing on contemporary art. Her interests extend from feminism to cosmopolitanism, from installation to jewellery, from museum projects to cultural resistance.

Between 2001-14 Julie was Head of Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Key achievements included the 2005 retrospective The Art of Fiona Hall; the national surveys Contemporary Australia: Optimism (2008) and Contemporary Australia: Women (2012); and contributing to six editions of the Gallery’s acclaimed Asia-Pacific Triennial. During this period Julie wrote major monographs on Fiona Hall (2005) and Del Kathryn Barton (2014).

In 2014, Julie received the Australia Council’s Visual Arts Award for her achievements as a curator, writer, and advocate for the visual arts. She continues as a mentor for artists and writers, including acting as a higher degree examiner; is in demand as a lecturer, and a public speaker on radio, for podcasts and at conferences; acts as a consultant and as a judge for art prizes and awards; and regularly takes groups on art tours both in Australia and internationally. Julie is currently Chair, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.

Since 2014 Julie has written catalogue essays, and reviews for journals including The Monthly, Garland, and Australian Book Review, and edited numerous major publications. In 2016 she curated The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver for TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, and was a member of the curatorium for Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, ACCA, Melbourne, 2017-2018. In 2019 she curated The Housing Question: Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre Delys, at Penrith Regional Gallery; in 2022, she was curator in residence at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, collaborating with artist Helen Grace; and in 2023 she curated Meet the Artists: The James C. Sourris AM Artist Interviews, for State Library of Queensland, and Juanita McLauchlan: gii mara-bula / Heart Hand-also, at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.