Judy Watson b. 1959

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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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Under the Act
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http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/NIAT07/Detail.cfm?IRN=164902&BioArtistIRN=18723&MnuID=1
 
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A preponderance of aboriginal blood
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Medium
Works on paper, Etchings
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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.

 
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heart/land/river
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Brisbane Magistrate’s Court Commission

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

 
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driftnet
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creator of
our skin in your collections
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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=139834&View=LRG
 
creator of
our bones in your collections
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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=139833&View=LRG
 
creator of
Our hair in your collections
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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=139832&View=LRG
 
creator of
canyon
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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=20917&View=LRG
 
creator of
strung up, strung out
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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=177739&View=LRG
 
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(dust)
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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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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=119426&View=LRG
 
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bloodline
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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=96450&View=LRG
 

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References [<ExternalResource: Trioli, Virginia & Watson, Judy (19 November 1996), 'ABC TV Sunday Arts Interview transcript'.>, <ExternalResource: catalogue texts by Fink, Hannah; Lynn, Victoria & Perkins, Hetti (1996), 'Judy Watson', Moet & Chandon, Epernay, France.>, <ExternalResource: Watson, Judy (1996), 'Nucleus: Feeling compromised', Artlink, vol. 16, no. 4, pp.22-23.>, <ExternalResource: Tjalaminu, Mia & Morgan, Sally (2004), 'Going home to country', Art & Australia, vol. 41, no. 4, p.540.>, <ExternalResource: Carver, Antonia (2000), 'Judy Watson', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA : "Beyond the Pale - Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art" catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: Perkins, Hetti (2007), 'Judy Watson in Conversation', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW : "One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia".>, <ExternalResource: 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.>, <ExternalResource: 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.>, <ExternalResource: (2006), '23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art award - catalogue', Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT.>, <ExternalResource: Lynn, Victoria (ed: Knox White, Jennifer) (1995), 'Judy Watson: Map/Dream/Journey', Guggenheim Museum Publications : "Antipodean Currents: Ten Contemporary Artists from Australia" catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: Butler, Sally (ed: Kupbler, Alison) (2007), 'Judy Watson', QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld : "15 Years of Urban Art Projects" exhibition catalogue.>] [<ExternalResource: Trioli, Virginia & Watson, Judy (19 November 1996), 'ABC TV Sunday Arts Interview transcript'.>]