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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creator of
Under the Act
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URL
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/NIAT07/Detail.cfm?IRN=164902&BioArtistIRN=18723&MnuID=1
 
creator of
A preponderance of aboriginal blood
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Medium
Works on paper, Etchings
Tags
Artists' Book, Oppression, Chine collé
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b3011919

Commissioned by State Library of Queensland for 'Sufferance: Women’s Artists’ Books Exhibition’. Awarded the Telstra Work on Paper Award, 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, 2006,

Brisbane: Numero Uno Publications, Grahame Galleries + Editions, limited edition of 5 copies and 5 artists’ proofs, 16 sheets, unbound: 16 ill.; 42 cm. in + 1 portfolio.

 
creator of
heart/land/river
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Brisbane Magistrate’s Court Commission

 
creator of
two halves with bailer shell
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=126858&View=LRG
 
creator of
Wurreka
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Commissioned to produce etched zinc wall for the entrance to Bunjilka, the Aboriginal Centre at the Melbourne Museum

 
creator of
driftnet
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creator of
our skin in your collections
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=139834&View=LRG
 
creator of
our bones in your collections
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=139833&View=LRG
 
creator of
Our hair in your collections
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=139832&View=LRG
 
creator of
canyon
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=20917&View=LRG
 
creator of
strung up, strung out
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=177739&View=LRG
 
creator of
(dust)
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=147344&View=LRG
 
creator of
The Guardians
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1994 Koori Floor Piece Commission, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

 
creator of
white line
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=119426&View=LRG
 
creator of
bloodline
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=96450&View=LRG
 

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  • Off the Wall: Art from the very eclectic collection of Liverpool City Council (exhibited at)
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  • Future Feminist Archive Symposium (participated in)
  • 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)