Dowling gained a Diploma of Fine Art at Claremont School of Art in 1989, a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University in 1992 and an Associate Diploma in Visual Arts Management at Perth Metropolitan TAFE in 1995.
She works in what could be described as a social realist style, influenced by European portraiture, Christian icons, Mexican mural painting, Papunya Tula dotting and Noongar iconography.Recording the injustices in the Indigenous community her works have a strong political edge,

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