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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exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Zero metres above sea level: Marrnyula Munungurr, Rerrkirrwana Munungurr, Judy Watson
Date
17 September 2016 - 22 October 2016
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Zero Metres Above Sea Level presents an inter-tidal world where different cultures and sciences meet. It brings together artwork from two sites located at mean sea level: Blue Mud Bay, a famous place in Northeast Arnhem Land, home to the respected Yolngu clans, and Heron Island, a respected research station on the Great Barrier Reef.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://www.crossart.com.au/archive/95-2016-exhibitions-projects/301-zero-metres-above-sea-level-marrnyula-munungurr-rerrkirrwana-munungurr-judy-watson
participated in
Future Feminist Archive Symposium
Date
6 March 2015
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

40th anniversary of the International Women’s Year in honour of Joan Kerr.

Type
Other event
Tags
Symposium
Website
http://www.crossart.com.au/other-projects/contemporary-art-and-feminism/future-feminist-archive
Note
Speaker
exhibited at
Biennale of Sydney: All our relations
Date
2012
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description

18th Biennale of Sydney

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://bos18.com/
exhibited at
Bad and Doubtful Debts
Date
2009
Place
Milani Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial '07
Date
2007 - 2008
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/NIAT07/
exhibited at
23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Date
2006
Place
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Description

Winner of the Telstra Work on Paper Award

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
Date
2006
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Winner

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/clemenger2006/
Dreaming their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
Date
2006
Place
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=141
exhibited at
Judy Watson: Selected Works 1990-2005
Date
2005 - 2006
Place
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sufferance: Women's Artists' Books Exhibition
Date
2005
Place
CQ Gallery, Craft Queensland, Brisbane, Qld
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.govhouse.qld.gov.au/the_governor/CraftQ.asp
exhibited at
sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson, 1989-2003
Date
2003
Place
John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA
Description

Survey exhibition, toured to South-East Asia

Type
Exhibition
Beyond the Pale: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Date
2000
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
bush colour: work on paper by women artists from Maningrida
Date
1999
Description

Curator

Type
Exhibition
curator of
Mapping Our Countries
Date
1999
Place
Djamu Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Curated by Judy Watson and Paul Taçon

Type
Exhibition
Note
with Paul Taçon
exhibited at
Fluent: 47th Venice Biennale exhibition
Date
1997
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

An AGNSW touring exhibition. Work from the 47th Venice Biennale.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson : XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W. : Art Gallery of New South Wales, c1997.
ISBN0731304039

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Venice, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Fluent: Australian art from the 47th Venice Biennale
Date
1998
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Description

Work from the 47th Venice Biennale.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
TMAG annual report; AGNSW annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson : XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W. : Art Gallery of New South Wales, c1997.
51 p. : col. ill., map, ports. ; 33 cm.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Mixed media
exhibited at
Fluent
Date
1997
Place
XLVII Venice Biennale, Italy
Description

Represented Australia with Yvonne Koolmatrie and Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Also toured to Australian galleries 1997-1998

Type
Exhibition
in Place(Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia
Date
1997
Place
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
Spirit + Place
Date
1996 - 1997
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Off the Wall: Art from the very eclectic collection of Liverpool City Council
Date
13 March 1995 - 7 April 1995
Place
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Australian Women Artists from the Collections of the Toowoomba Art Gallery and the University of Southern Queensland
Date
10 March 1995 - 2 April 1995
Place
Dalby Regional Gallery, Dalby, Qld
Description

Opened by Allison Dickson, Chancellor of the University of South Queensland, 9 March 1995.

Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art
Date
8 March 1995 - July 1995
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Artists of North Queensland
Date
8 March 1995 - 16 April 1995
Place
Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville, Qld
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women hold up half the sky
Date
March 1995 - April 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Opened by the Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence. Heritage book launched at the same time. The touring exhibition, Sydney by Design, formed one section of this exhibition.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
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