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.

 
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heart/land/river
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Brisbane Magistrate’s Court Commission

 
creator of
two halves with bailer shell
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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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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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http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=96450&View=LRG
 

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Related recognitions
  • Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards (received)
  • Queensland Music Festival (received)
  • Reconciliation Place, Canberra, ACT (received)
  • National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (received)
  • Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (received)
  • One of eight indigenous Australian artists chosen to have work permanently exhibited in the Musee du Quai Branly (received)
  • Brisbane Magistrate's Court (received)
  • 2002 : Commissioned to produce 'Ngarrn-Gi-Land' for the Victorian County Court, Melbourne, Vic. (received)
  • Melbourne Museum (received)
  • 1995 : Moet & Chandon Fellowship Winner (received)
  • Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (received)
  • Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards (received)
  • Queensland Music Festival (received)
  • Reconciliation Place, Canberra, ACT (received)
  • National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (received)
  • Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (received)
  • One of eight indigenous Australian artists chosen to have work permanently exhibited in the Musee du Quai Branly (received)
  • Brisbane Magistrate's Court (received)
  • 2002 : Commissioned to produce 'Ngarrn-Gi-Land' for the Victorian County Court, Melbourne, Vic. (received)
  • Melbourne Museum (received)
  • 1995 : Moet & Chandon Fellowship Winner (received)
  • Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (received)