Judy Watson

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Fire and water (2007), Canberra

Judy Napangardi Watson (* 1959 in Mundubbera , Queensland ) is an Australian sculptor and graphic artist . She is an important representative of Aboriginal art .

life and work

Judy Watson is a member of the Waanyi Aboriginal tribe . She began her education in 1977 at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba . From 1979 to 1982 she studied fine arts at the University of Tasmania in Hobart and then at Monash University in Gippsland in Victoria .

During her student days, her works were exhibited, mainly her graphic work, and she had her first solo exhibitions in the 1990s:

Her work Touching my mother's blood is in the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra , her first sculpture The Guardians (1986/1987) was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the Aratjara exhibition , and other works by her are in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, the Hayward Gallery in London and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk (Denmark). A reference to her family and her grandmother's home, Riversleigh Station in northwest Queensland, inspired her to write Antipodean Current's work, which has been in the Guggenheim Museum New York since 1995. In 1997 Judy Watson was one of the three Australian representatives at the Venice Biennale .

In her work she integrates, for example, clam shells, wood, clam shells, termite mounds, fossils, plants, landscapes and islands, bones, hair and blood. This creates the impression of Land Art .

Judy Watson traveled to Italy , India , Canada , Norway and France for her studies . Her work is shown in numerous exhibitions and they are in many museums and collections. Two works by her in the Musée du quai Branly in Paris , which opened in 2006, are noteworthy .

Watson has given numerous lectures at universities and helped Aboriginal artists explore and understand their origins, develop their artistic skills, connect their art to their past.

After spending a long time abroad and far from home, she decided to live with her family in Brisbane .

Fire and Water

In 2007 Judy Watson was commissioned to design a work for the Parliamentary Zone at Reconciliation Place , which was placed in the sculpture park of the National Gallery of Australia . The work is a project of the Land Art, where Watson an open arbor with curved rods from bronze symbolizes and a single orphaned black in the center of Hartenstein is. This place represents a gathering place of the Aborigines and the stone is a Yuriarra Moth Stone . At certain times, a water mist is generated in the background of the sculpture.

literature

  • Laura Fisher: Storylines Project, COFA (2008)
  • Hetti Perkins: Judy Watson in Conversation (2007), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Mia Tjalaminu and Sally Morgan: Going home to country (2004), Art & Australia
  • Antonia Carver: Judy Watson (2000), Art Gallery of South Australia , Adelaide

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Website of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online DAAO: Judy Watson . Retrieved August 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Watson, Judy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watson, Judy Napangardi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mundubbera , Queensland