Judy Watson

Artist
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Judy Watson is an Indigenous artist whose matrilineal family is from country in North West Queensland.  She co-represented Australia in the 1997 Venice Biennale and won the Moet & Chandon Fellowship in 1995. Her work is included in major Australian and International collections and she has exhibited widely over the past 20 years.  Her recent public art commissions include – Wurreka, a fifty metre etched zinc wall for the Melbourne Museum;  Walama forecourt, a sculptural installation of woven steel screens and upturned bronze dilly bags at Sydney International Airport.;  Ngarrn-gi Land/Law, a fifty metre etched zinc wall at the Victorian County Court, Melbourne. 

Her survey exhibition sacred ground beating heart’ was exhibited at the John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, WA in 2003 and at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and  toured South East Asia in 2004.  Her work, heart/land/river 2004, a large photographic and light piece on glass is in the foyer of the new Brisbane Magistrates Court.  She is one of eight Australian Aboriginal artists commissioned to make work for the new Musee du Quai Branly in Paris opening in June 2006.