Julie Robinson is Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at the Art Gallery of South Australia, where she has worked since 1988, and is also on the teaching staff at the University of Adelaide, where she offers supervision in Art History.University of Adelaide, "Graduate Studies in Art History and Curatorial & Museum Studies, MA & PhD programs" Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences website Her curatorial projects include Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s (2010)McDonald, Patrick "The Way We Were" The Advertiser, 20 May 2010 AdelaideNow website and A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s (2007).Smee, Sebastian "Unreliable Witness" The Australian, 8 December 2007 The Australian website Writing about the latter while national arts critic of The Australian, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Sebastian Smee said: "If you are at all interested in Australian photography, whether or not you are from SA, you will want to see this show, or at least get hold of the catalogue".
Robinson curated the 2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Contemporary Photomedia. The arts critic for the South Pacific edition of Time, described it as a "powerful survey which goes to show that photography isn't dead".Michael Fitzgerald, "Not Dying, Changing" Time, 17 March 2004 Time website He noted that when Robinson curated her first photographic survey in 1990, "it was a more straightforward affair – pictures simply stared back at audiences" and went on to add, speaking of the Biennial, that "the 20 artists she has brought together in Adelaide explode the idea of what photography can be". Featured artists included Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, Mike Parr and Patricia Piccinini.Reid, Chris "Photomedium As Message" RealTime, December 2003 2004 Adelaide Biennial, RealTime Retrieved 25 May 2011
Other exhibitions Robinson also curated Five Centuries of Genius: European Master Printmaking (2000), Ann Newmarch: The Personal is Political (1997), Durer And German Renaissance Printmaking (1996), The Age of Rubens & Rembrandt: Old Master Prints From The Art Gallery of South Australia (1993), Hans Heysen: The Creative Journey (1992) and Fragmentation & Fabrication: Recent Australian Photography (1991).University of Adelaide, "Graduate Studies in Art History and Curatorial & Museum Studies, List of Teaching Staff", Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences website
Publications Julie Robinson, Fragmentation & fabrication: recent Australian photography, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1990, Julie Robinson, Landscapes, visions in print by South Australian artists, South Australian Touring Exhibitions Programme, 1990, Julie Robinson, Sir Hans Heysen, Hans Heysen: the creative journey, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1992, Julie Robinson, The age of Rubens & Rembrandt, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1993, Julie Robinson, Dürer and German Renaissance printmaking, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996, Julie Robinson, Five centuries of genius: European master printmaking, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000, Julie Robinson, Ann Newmarch: the personal is political, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1997, Julie Robinson, A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s AGSA/Thames & Hudson. 2007, Julie Robinson, Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s Art Gallery of South Australia exhibition booklet. 2010
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External links "The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art". Notes by Julia Robinson, curator of the exhibition "Candid camera", Stateline South Australia, 28 May 2010 "Candid Camera", The Blurb, Issue 115 Biennial Education Pack "Biennial snapshot", Realtime 61, Jena Woodburn