Born in 1964 on the island of Erromango, Juliette Pita is Vanuatu's foremost woman contemporary artist. Juliette began specialising in tapestry when she attended the art course at the Institut National de Technologie du Vanuatu (INTV) following high school. She became the first woman graduate of the course, and her first individual exhibition was in 1983 in the exhibition gallery of the French embassy. Subsequently she exhibited with Joseph John in Port Vila in 1994, with Emmanuel Watt at the Francophonie '94 exhibition in Paris and with other ni-Vanuatu artists representing Nawita in the 1995 'Contemporary Art of the South Pacific' exhibition in Sydney, the 1997 'Awe! Artis blong Tedei' exhibition in Port Vila and New Caledonia, and the 'Spirit blong tedei' exhibition which toured Europe in 1997. She has also exhibited individually in Noumea. Juliette now works as a mother and part-time fabric painter in Port Vila. Juliette considers her main inspiration to be the traditional cultures of Vanuatu, but her tapestries are also created around images from daily life and the natural environments of Vanuatu.

Moses Jobo and Juliette Pita have also formed another artists association, named Velikri Balam in memory their grandfather, a high chief of Erromango. As well as Jobo and Pita, the members of Velikri Balam include John Lovo, Pascal Lovo and Pita Lovo. This small association aims to lift up the customary arts of Erromango and to promote the talents of one close-knit family.

Juliette Pita holding 'Land Divers', a tapestry specially commissioned for
the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.