An exhibition spanning 15 years of Judy Watson’s work will be shown at The University of Queensland’s James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre, St Lucia from November 26 to January 29, 2006.
An iconic early print the guardians, recent canvases exploring her childhood in Brisbane, and an artist book dealing with the bureaucratic classification of Indigenous people, will be included in an exhibition.
Judy Watson: Selected Works 1990–2005 will feature 66 drawings, prints, paintings and artist books, as well as some bones.
Watson’s practice over the past 15 years has documented her personal experiences and connections with her grandmother’s country around Riversleigh station in north-west Queensland, her international travels, explorations of the “country” of the body, her childhood, and the history of Brisbane.
National and international recognition of her work has included the 1995 Moet and Chandon Fellowship and co-representing Australia in the 1997 Venice Biennale.
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