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.
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associate of
Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
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associate of
Milani Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
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  • Sufferance: Women's Artists' Books Exhibition (exhibited at)
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  • in Place(Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia (None)
  • Spirit + Place (None)
  • Antipodean Currents (exhibited at)
  • True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists raise the flag (exhibited at)
  • Aratjara: Art of the First Australians (exhibited at)
  • First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Aboriginal Women's Exhibition (None)
  • Groundwork (exhibited at)
  • A Koori Perspective (exhibited at)
  • a sacred place for these bones (exhibited at)
  • bush colour: work on paper by women artists from Maningrida (exhibited at)
  • Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial '07 (exhibited at)
  • 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (exhibited at)
  • 2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (exhibited at)
  • Judy Watson: Selected Works 1990-2005 (exhibited at)
  • Sufferance: Women's Artists' Books Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson, 1989-2003 (exhibited at)
  • Fluent (exhibited at)
  • Antipodean Currents (exhibited at)
  • True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists raise the flag (exhibited at)
  • Aratjara: Art of the First Australians (exhibited at)
  • First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Groundwork (exhibited at)
  • A Koori Perspective (exhibited at)
  • a sacred place for these bones (exhibited at)
  • Dreaming their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters (None)
  • Beyond the Pale: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (None)
  • Spirit + Place (None)
  • in Place(Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia (None)
  • Aboriginal Women's Exhibition (None)
  • Mapping Our Countries (curator of)
  • Bad and Doubtful Debts (exhibited at)