Judy Watson

About the exhibition
For Judy Watson, a Waanyi woman from north-west Queensland, the matrilineal connection to her ancestral country has always been central to her printmaking and painting practice. This exhibition traced Watson’s deepening relationship with her grandmother’s country—specifically the land around Lawn Hill Gorge and Riversleigh Station—through the artist’s key works from the past decade. It also featured Watson’s most recent paintings that extended her engagement with place to include sites she encountered through travel and research.

To coincide with the exhibition, Dr Lynette Russell and Professor Marcia Langton organised a forum titled ‘Imaging Aboriginality: Indigenous / European Entanglements in Culture and Representation’, which was held at the Monash University Prato Centre in Italy.


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^{Image: Judy Watson, tremor 2001, pigment, earth, ink, watercolour and charcoal on canvas, 192 x 128 cm. Private collection}