Julia deVille is a New Zealand-born artist, jeweller and taxidermist, who only uses subjects in her taxidermy that have died of natural causes.

Julia deVille was born in Wellington, New Zealand.

DeVille enrolled in two short jewellery courses in late 2002, at the same time she met her taxidermy mentor and started learning the craft of taxidermy.

[5] She is an advocate for animal rights, and began including taxidermy in her art work in 2002,[6] combining it with her jewellery making practice to produce small sculptures and installations.

DeVille’s interest in memento mori traditions of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian mourning jewellery inform her wearable pieces.