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
Cheryl Moodai Robinson
Artist (Installation Artist), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Gordon Hookey
1961
Artist (Installation Artist), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Brook Andrew
1970
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter), Artist (Sculptor), Artist, Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
1910
Artist (Painter), Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
associate of
Esme Timbery
1931
Artist
associate of
Tommy Watson
1935
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Brenda L. Croft
Curator, Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Hetti Perkins
Curator
associate of
Vivian Scott
Other occupation
grandchild of
Grace Isaacson
Other occupation
associate of
Ningura Napurrula
Other occupation
associate of
Lena Nyadbi
1936
Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Mawurndjul
Other occupation
associate of
Paddy Bedford
Artist
associate of
Gulumbu Yunupingu
1945
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Vernon Ah Kee
1959
Artist (Installation Artist), Artist (Video Artist), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Kevin Atkinson
1959
Artist, Artist (Carver), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Yvonne Koolmatrie
1959
Artist (Weaver)
associate of
Victoria Lynn
1959
Curator
associate of
Susan Marawarr
1959
Artist (Installation Artist), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Weaver), Artist (Painter), Artist (Mixed Media Artist), Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
associate of
Michael Riley
1959
Artist (Video Artist), Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Peter Tonkin
1959
Artist (Installation Artist), Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)

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  • Biennale of Sydney: All our relations (exhibited at)
  • Bad and Doubtful Debts (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)
  • Dreaming their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters (None)
  • 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)
  • Beyond the Pale: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (None)
  • bush colour: work on paper by women artists from Maningrida (exhibited at)
  • Mapping Our Countries (curator of)
  • Fluent (exhibited at)
  • 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)
  • Judy Watson: the artist's studio (exhibited at)
  • Fluent: 47th Venice Biennale exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Fluent: Australian art from the 47th Venice Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Judy Watson (exhibited at)
  • Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art (exhibited at)
  • In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection (exhibited at)
  • Women Artists of North Queensland (exhibited at)
  • Women hold up half the sky (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Australian Women Artists from the Collections of the Toowoomba Art Gallery and the University of Southern Queensland (exhibited at)
  • Women from the University of Southern Queensland Collection (exhibited at)
  • Off the Wall: Art from the very eclectic collection of Liverpool City Council (exhibited at)
  • Microcosm (exhibited at)
  • Future Feminist Archive Symposium (participated in)
  • Zero metres above sea level: Marrnyula Munungurr, Rerrkirrwana Munungurr, Judy Watson (exhibited at)
  • Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1 (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Sydney: All our relations (exhibited at)
  • Bad and Doubtful Debts (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)
  • Dreaming their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters (None)
  • 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)
  • Beyond the Pale: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (None)
  • bush colour: work on paper by women artists from Maningrida (exhibited at)
  • Mapping Our Countries (curator of)
  • Fluent (exhibited at)
  • 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)
  • Judy Watson: the artist's studio (exhibited at)
  • Fluent: 47th Venice Biennale exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Fluent: Australian art from the 47th Venice Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Judy Watson (exhibited at)
  • Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art (exhibited at)
  • In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection (exhibited at)
  • Women Artists of North Queensland (exhibited at)
  • Women hold up half the sky (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Australian Women Artists from the Collections of the Toowoomba Art Gallery and the University of Southern Queensland (exhibited at)
  • Women from the University of Southern Queensland Collection (exhibited at)
  • Off the Wall: Art from the very eclectic collection of Liverpool City Council (exhibited at)
  • Microcosm (exhibited at)
  • Future Feminist Archive Symposium (participated in)
  • Zero metres above sea level: Marrnyula Munungurr, Rerrkirrwana Munungurr, Judy Watson (exhibited at)