Judy Watson b. 1959

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
Watson is a Brisbane-based Waanyi artist who works across a range of mediums to explore familial, historical, political and environmental aspects of Australian Indigenous heritage and experience. In 2006 she was the winner of the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.

Citations

  • Trioli, Virginia & Watson, Judy (19 November 1996), 'ABC TV Sunday Arts Interview transcript’.

  • catalogue texts by Fink, Hannah; Lynn, Victoria & Perkins, Hetti (1996), 'Judy Watson’, Moet & Chandon, Epernay, France.

  • Watson, Judy (1996), 'Nucleus: Feeling compromised’, Artlink, vol. 16, no. 4, pp.22-23.

  • Tjalaminu, Mia & Morgan, Sally (2004), 'Going home to country’, Art & Australia, vol. 41, no. 4, p.540.

  • Carver, Antonia (2000), 'Judy Watson’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA : “Beyond the Pale – Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art” catalogue.

  • Perkins, Hetti (2007), 'Judy Watson in Conversation’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW : “One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia”.

  • Perkins, Hetti (ed: Morphy, Howard) (1997), 'Judy Watson: Our skeletons in your closets’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK : “In place (out of time) : Contemporary art in Australia” catalogue.

  • Perkins, Hetti; Lynch, Michael (1997), 'Fluent: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson : XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997.’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • (2006), '23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art award – catalogue’, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT.

    http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/exhibitions/natsiaa/23natsiaa.html

  • Lynn, Victoria (ed: Knox White, Jennifer) (1995), 'Judy Watson: Map/Dream/Journey’, Guggenheim Museum Publications : “Antipodean Currents: Ten Contemporary Artists from Australia” catalogue.

  • Butler, Sally (ed: Kupbler, Alison) (2007), 'Judy Watson’, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld : “15 Years of Urban Art Projects” exhibition catalogue.

See also

  • Archer, Carol, 'The Ambivalent Paintings of Judy Watson, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 7, no.2'.
  • Louise Martin-Chew, Judy Watson, 'Blood Language'.

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW