Julie Visible is a highly regarded, regional visual artist based in the Central West of NSW. Her artistic practice examines the fragility of interconnectedness within our contemporary world and the effects of daily life on people and the environment. Over three decades Visible has been continually shifting and reinventing her interdisciplinary art-making across photo-media, performance, sound, collage, installation, digital technologies and new media; while regularly exhibiting in city and regional venues.

Engaging quietly within the light and darkness of the Australian bushland, Visible waits for her surroundings to reveal and activate natural shapes and forms. These impressions are drawn into her lens, imbuing the still and moving imagery she creates with a subtle sense of unreality. Self-portraiture and analogue, in-camera double-exposures are often utilised to highlight the search for reconnection and an ecological healing.

The camera lens is her eye as it passes over the land uncovering and rediscovering old places: white lines of sunlight on water become written language; birdsong morphs into human chanting; and the mountains and caves resonate with the depths of time. When the artist or other people appear in the imagery it is as translucent figures displaced and searching. Her work queries the spirit of place and how humanity can inhabit a location more fully.

Most recently, Visible subverts conventions and challenges our perceptions of Australian women’s history with a bold, new major body of work The Carousel of Invisibility which opened at the Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre in June 2025. Visible was awarded two Artist Residencies for the project: the Cementa Arts Festival (2021) and the Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre (2023). These residencies provided funding for the Research and Development of the project, which focusses on the little-known female Bushranger Jessie Hickman, who hailed from the Central West of New South Wales.

The Carousel of Invisibility was also awarded a 2021 Arts Restart Micro Grant from Arts OutWest and an Honourable Mention for the photograph Moth in the 2022 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize. Visible was also a Finalist with her Invisible Horse diptych for the 2025 Art on Paper Award at the Hazelhurst Arts Centre, while a selection of work from the exhibition was chosen for installation at the 2025 Hill End Analogue Photography Festival. In 2026 the video Bushland Intimacy will be exhibited in a group show Domestic Dreams curated by Steven Cavanagh and Nicola Mason, scheduled for WAYOUT Artspace in Kandos NSW.

Visible has been curated into exhibitions including at Carriageworks in NO SHOW (2021), the National Film & Sound Archive at the Art NotApart Festival (2021) and the Cementa19 exhibition at Kandos in Here, Not Here curated by Dr Andrew Frost. Since 2011 Director of Arthere, Sandy Edwards, has represented Julie Visible at Sydney Contemporary (2018) and curated her solo and group shows across numerous Sydney venues.

Visible’s work has been featured internationally in two editions of the the Dark Mountain Project anthologies: 2018 Spring #17 Restoration and 2020 Spring #13 Being Human in the Thick of the Present; and a video work Sculpting in the Pyrocene: A Disappearing Act was selected for the Dark Mountain Project festival of uncivilised films The Picture Show at the End of the World in 2020.

Visible has been awarded Commendations in the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize (2022); Muswellbrook Photographic Award (1994, 2010); Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (2008) and Art in the Mountains (1995). Since 1993 other works have been selected for national award exhibitions including; Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award (2025); Olive Cotton Award (2023, 2017); the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize (2022); Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2017, 2016, 2014); Paramor Prize (2015); Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place (2020, 2012); Wilson Visual Art Award (2012); National Photography Prize (2010) and the Muswellbrook Photographic Award (2008,1993).

Creating networks with fellow regional artists has provided Visible with professional development opportunities including; the Cementa Regional Artist Professional Development Program with Lead Mentor Amala Groom (2020); Master Class Collage Workshops with Deborah Kelly at Bathurst Regional Gallery (2019) and at WAYOUT Artspace (2019, 2020). Visible is a founding co-director of both the regionally based Artist Run Initiative WAYOUT Artspace and the Women with Knives collage collective at Kandos.