At 29, She was the 11th woman to win the award, and the second youngest to receive the prize in 100 years.

She then received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied sculpture.

[2] It was several years after graduating from RISD, and after the loss of a close friend, she put these elements of her practice together to develop her signature approach to textile figuration.

At 29, She was the 11th woman to win the award, and the second youngest to receive the prize in 100 years.

[5] In 2020, Julia was a finalist in the NSW emerging fellowship at Artspace, exhibiting her work 'Nobody told me the shadows would be so bright.'