About Julie Lewis
Creative Director. Producer-Director. Newfoundlander.
Julie Lewis is the Creative Director, Producer-Director, and founder of J. Lewis & Co Ventures Ltd. and Sassy Tuna Studio®, based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her practice sits at the crossroads of biometric interactive art, documentary filmmaking, and ecological advocacy — work built in close relationship with Indigenous knowledge frameworks of kinship, reciprocity, and intergenerational accountability.
Dr. Alistair Bath and Julie Lewis present on Signal Hill, St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada
Julie's current body of work, The Rise and Fall of the Alpha and Beta: The Sensory Wolf, asks audiences to feel their way into extinction and survival, using their own physiology as the instrument. The projects are developed with a tight, trusted team — including Indigenous cultural consultant and filmmaker Jennie Williams, Inuk throat singer and cultural guide Sophie Angnatok, biometric developer Mark Hancock, and cinematographer Thabani Mthethwa — and supported by funders and partners including ArtsNL, PictureNL, Memorial University, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Beyond production, Julie runs a community makerspace out of the studio, teaching painting, drawing, crafts, and sequential art to youth and families across the region — because the same curiosity that drives her biometric work belongs in the hands of the next generation of Newfoundland and Labrador artists.
Her work is anchored internationally: a Caselberg Trust residency in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand (Nov 2026–Jan 2027), and a 2027 exhibition with Shoebox Arts in Los Angeles.