Judy Watson was born in Mundubbera, Queensland. Judy Watson’s Aboriginal matrilineal family is from Waanyi country in north-west Queensland. The artist’s process evolves by working from site and memory, revealing Indigenous histories, following lines of emotional and physical topography that centre on particular places and moments in time.
Judy Watson
Photo : Aurélien Mole
Born in Mundubbera, Queensland in 1959, Watson is a Waanyi descendant of north-west Queensland. Her ancestry and personal experiences have greatly influenced her artistic practice, which spans a variety of media including painting, printmaking, video, sculpture and installation.
She often addresses the complex history of colonialism and its impact on indigenous communities. She explores themes of migration, survival and recovery, seeking to bring awareness and understanding to these issues. Her work is a powerful means of storytelling and a form of cultural preservation.
Exhibiting extensively since the 1980s, Watson co-represented Australia at the 1997 Venice Biennale and won the Works on Paper Award at the 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award in 2006. She was also the recipient of the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award. In 2011, Watson’s exhibition waterline was shown at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC, and in 2012, she exhibited in the Sydney Biennale. In 2018, the Art Gallery of New South Wales staged a major exhibition of her work titled the edge of memory. Watson has also received commissions for several public art projects across Australia, including fire and water at Reconciliation Place in Canberra in 2007, ngarunga nangama: calm water dream at 200 George St in Sydney in 2016, and in the same year, tow row for the Gallery of Modern Art’s 10th Anniversary in Brisbane. mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri, a significant survey of Judy Watson’s practice, opened in 2024 at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Her work is also included in several significant Australian and international collections, including all of Australia’s state institutions, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tokyo National University of Technology, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the British Museum, and MCA/ TATE. Watson is an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, and in 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Art History by the University of Queensland.
Born Mundubbera, Queensland, 1959. Lives and works in Brisbane, Australia
Education
1986
- Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts, Monash University, Gippsland
1980 - 82
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1977 - 79
- Diploma of Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
- Judy Watson, Aranya Art Centre North, Quinhuangdao, China
- Ground Piece, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2024
- mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri, QAGOMA Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2023
- bagging colonialism, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns
- shadow bone, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
- indigo spine, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2022
- skeletons, Queensland State Archives, Brisbane; Redcliffe Art Gallery, Moreton Bay (2025)
2021
- the skin of painting, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2020
- Judy Watson, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2019
- bodies of water and melting snow, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2018
- the edge of memory, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Judy Watson: concealed histories, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2016
- Indigo and Ochre, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
- the names of places, Green Screen, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- A Case Study, Lake Macquarie Gallery, Booragul
- the scarifier, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
2015
- the holes in the land; heron island suite, experimental beds, Toowoomba Regional Gallery
2014
- sacredground beating heart / experimental beds / heron island suite, Noosa Regional Gallery
2013
- experimental beds, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2012
- shell, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
- experimental beds, University of Virginia, USA and grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.
2011 - 12
- waterline, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA.
2011
- heron island suite, Touring Regional Galleries in Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.
2010
- heron island suite, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.
2009 - 12
- heron island, University of Virginia, USA; grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane; and touring across Western Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland.
2009
- bad and doubtful debts, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
- heron island, University of Queensland Art Museum; University of Queensland, Brisbane.
2008
- blood language, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney.
- in the shadows of goya, aotearoa and the museum; Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
2007
- in the shadows of goya, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra.
- a complicated fall, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2006
- shell, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Guwayu: for all time, Murrook Culture Centre, Williamtown NSW
- Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia, Artizon Museum, Tokyo Japan
- Skeletons, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe
- 65,000 years: a short history of Australian Art, Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Shared Threads, Webb's, Wellington, New Zealand
- Art Text/ Text Art: 45 Years of Visual Storytelling, Artbank Window, Sydney
- Wonderstruck, Queensland Gallery of Modern art, Brisbane.
- State of the Art, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton
- The City Wakes, The City Sleeps, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
- Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Yield, Caboolture Regional Gallery, Queensland
2024
- Lines: Aligning your consciousness with the flow, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
- My Oma, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023
- soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale
- shadow spirit, Rising Festival, Melbourne
- Mare Amoris: Sea of Love, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2022
- Réclamer la terre, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- A Landscape is Not Something You Look At', Milani Gallery, Brisbane
- Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends, The Belnaves Contemporary Series, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (touring), QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
- We are ..., The Condensery Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Somerset, Queensland
- Above the Canopy, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
- WATERpresence and absence, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba, New South Wales
2021
- A Year in Art: Australia 1992, TATE Modern, London, United Kingdom
- Te Waituhi ã Nuku Drawing Ecologies, Courtney Place, Wellington, New Zealand.
- Works from the Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, United States
- On Fire: Climate and Crisis, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
- djillong dumularra: Carol McGregor and Judy Watson, Artspace, Sydney
- The National 2021: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Myall Creek and Beyond, University of Sunshine Coast Gallery Art Gallery, Queensland
- Entwined: Plants and People, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
- Wandamba yalungka .../Winds change direction, Performa (online)
- Hyperlocal, Brisbane City Council Outdoor Galleries, Brisbane
- 경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Artspace and Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
2020
- Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (touring), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
- First, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe
- rite of passage, QUT Art Museum, Queensland
- Terra inFirma, Blacktown Art, NSW
- F_OCUS, Counihan Gallery, VIC
2019
- I OBJECT, Gallery of Modern Art, QLD
- 15th Anniversary Edition, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
- Australia, Antipodean Stories, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea Milano, Italy
- Water, Gallery of Modern Art, QLD
- Legacy: Reflections on Mabo, Umbrella Studio; Redland Art Gallery, QLD, touring
- New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2018
- Around and within, Space Gallery, Sydney
- Colony: Frontier Wars, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Myall Creek and Beyond, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
- Hunter Red: Re(a)d Earth, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie
- Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
- The Art of Healing: Australian Indigenous Bush Medicine, Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, Victoria
- As far as the eye can see, Logan Art Gallery, Logan Central, Queensland - travelling
2017-20
- 2017 Australian Collection Permanent Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia, Collectors Room, Berlin
- The Dust Never Settles, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
- Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- water+wisdom Australia India, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2017-18
- Corpus, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
- Starting Young, Gallery of Children's Art, Brisbane, Queensland
- Aura: Repetition, reproduction and the mark of the artist, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
- TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Experimenta Make Sense: The International Triennial of Media Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne and touring internationally
2016
- Black Mist Burnt Country, Touring exhibition in NSW, VIC, SA and QLD
- Sugar Spin: you, me, art and everything, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Zero metres about Sea level, CrossArts Projects, Sydney
- Beyond the Tower: UQ Art Museum, 40 Years and Counting, UQAM, St Lucia
- Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography, AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Borders, Barriers, Walls, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield
- With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown Arts Centre, New South Wales
- Living Waters, Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, Avenue St. Martin
- Unsettled: Stories Within, Australian National Museum, Canberra
2015
- Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, MA
- Artist and Empire: Facing Britain's Imperial Past, TATE Britain, London
- Contemporary Indigenous Art from Australia, Musee de la civilisation, Quebec, Canada
- When Silence Falls, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Unsettled, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
- (inv)isible!, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie
- Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation, British Museum, London
- Artists' Books & Multiples, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
- Mirror Mirror Image: prints and plates, Gympie Regional Gallery
- Daughters, Mothers (part of Future Feminist Archive), SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
- Body Politic, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia
2014
- Salt Water Country, Gold Coast Art Centre, Gold Coast
- Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
- East Coast Encounter: re-imagining the 1770 encounter, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
2013
- New, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
- Theatre of the World, La Maison Rouge, Paris
- Making Change, University of New South Wales Galleries (COFA)
- (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding...?, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre
- My Country: I Still Call Australia Home, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2012
- Taboo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
- Arte Indigena Contemporåneo en Australia, IVAM, Valencia d'Art Modern.
- all our relations, 18th Sydney Biennale, Sydney.
- Luminous World, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
- TABOO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
- Making Change, National Art Museum of China, Beijing.
- Contemporary Women, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2011
- Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), Cairns.
- Spinifex Country and Beyond Asylum, University of Queensland Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
2010 - 12
- Roundabout, touring Israel and New Zealand.
2010
- Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
- Art + Soul, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
- Suburbia, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe, Queensland.
- Littoral, Carnegie Gallery Hobart & Burnie Arts Centre, Burnie, Tasmania.
- 100 years: Highlights from the University Art Collection, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
2009
- Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the American University, Washington.
- National Artist’s Self Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
- Terra Nullius, ACC Galerie, Weimar & HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany.
2008
- Shards, South Australia School of Art Gallery, Adelaide.
2007
- Arc Biennial, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
- Sunshine State, Smart State, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
- Lessons in History, grahame galleries
Commissions
2021
- nerung ballun (Nerang River), HOTA on the Gold Coast, Queensland
2017
- Kingsford Smith Drive, Women's Journey Public Art Commission, Brisbane
2016
- QAGOMA Public Artwork Commission: GoMA's 10th Anniversary
- NGARUNGA NANGAMA: Calm water dream, 200 George St, Sydney
2015
- Project, Finders University, Adelaide
2014
- living wells, fragments Murri Kitchen, Townsville Hospital, Townsville
- water memory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research-foyer, Brisbane
- Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Billboard, Brisbane
- Tilt Train, Queensland Rail, Gold Coast
2010
- Gootcha, City Cat design, Brisbane
- fresh water lens, Turbot Street Overpass, Brisbane
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
British Museum, London
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Allied Queensland Coalfields Collection
Artbank, Sydney
ATSIC, Canberra
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
BHP Billiton Art Collection
Brisbane City Art Collection, Queensland
Canberra Institute of the Arts Library, Canberra
Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane, Queensland
Cruthers Collection, Perth
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Downlands College, Queensland
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Flinders University, Adelaide
Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Victoria
Goethe Institute, Melbourne
Gold Coast City Art Collection, Queensland
Griffith University, Brisbane
Holmes-a-Court Collection, Western Australia
James Cook University, Townsville
James Hardy Collection, State Library, Brisbane
LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria
Macquarie Bank, Sydney & New York
Monash University, Melbourne
Museum & Art Gallery, Northern Territory
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museo Della Civilità, Rome
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Northern Territory University, Darwin
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
South Australian Museum
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
St Ann’s & Gippsland Grammar School, Sale, Victoria
St Louis Art Museum, USA
Suncorp, Brisbane
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Tate Britain, London, UK
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
Tokyo National University of Technology, Japan
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
University of Tasmania, Hobart
University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales
University of Wollongong, New South Wales
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, New South Wales
Wesfarmers, Perth
Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
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McKay, Peter. ‘Courage and Beauty: The James C. Sourris AM Collection’. In artlines: Art. Insights.Events.
Issue 3, 2022, pp.16 – 23
Miekus, Tiarney. ‘Interview: Judy Watson and Helen Johnson’. Art Guide Australia, 1 September 2022, <scribd.com/article/591643269/Interview-Judy-Watson-Helen-Johnson>, viewed July 2023
National Gallery of Australia. ‘Reconciliation Week: Judy Watson and Helen Johnson in conversation’. National Gallery of Australia YouTube, 6 October 2022, <youtu.be/-DOCto9iavY>, viewed July 2023
Nsenduluka, Mibenge. ‘Monument to First Nations people unveiled’. Canberra Times, 28 May 2022, <canberratimes.com.au/story/7757217/monument-to-first-nations-people-unveiled/>, viewed July 2023
Perkins, Hetti. ‘Judy Watson’. Magazine Palais, no.33, 2022, pp.108–11
Perkins, Hetti. ‘Opinion: Rival to national icons signals new dawn for our people and our country’. Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 2022, <smh.com.au/national/nsw/rival-to-national-icons-signals-new-dawn-for-our-people-and-our-country-20220528-p5ap8s.html>, viewed July 2023
QUT Art Museum. Looking glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce. Virtual exhibition at QUT Art Museumlooking glass
https://www.artmuseum.qut.edu.au/whats-on/2022/exhibitions/looking-glass (viewed 19 February, 2025)
Saint Louis Art Museum. ‘Artist talk: Judy Watson’. Saint Louis Art MuseumYouTube, 2 September 2022, <youtu.be/X_WNKoBvD7c>, viewed July 2023
See, Pamela. ‘Exhibition review: Skeletons, Judy Watson’. Arts Hub, 6 December 2022, <artshub.com.au/news/reviews/exhibition-review-skeletons-judy-watson-2599468/>, viewed July 2023
Shiels, Julie. ‘How artists Judy Watson and Helen Johnson are stripping back Australia’s “white blanket of forgetfulness”’. The Conversation, 21 September 2022, <theconversation.com/how-artists-judy-watson-and-helen-johnson-are-stripping-back-australias-white-blanket-of-forgetfulness-188721>, viewed July 2023
Skidmore, Maya. ‘A huge marble monument to Sydney’s First Nations people has been unveiled by Sydney Harbour’. Timeout, 31 May 2022, <timeout.com/sydney/news/a-huge-marble-monument-to-sydneys-first-nations-people-has-been-unveiled-by-sydney-harbour-053122>, viewed July 2023
Watson, Judy. ‘Across Country: Waterlines’ [conference paper]. Pacific Arts, vol.22, no.2, 2022, pp.57–66; online at https://scholar.archive.org/work/ourrbcmvbva33dd3da2a5xtzvu (viewed 9 February, 2025)
Watson, Judy. ‘Illuminating a forgotten history’. New York Times, 9 December 2022, <nytimes.com/2022/12/09/special-series/indigenous-australian-art-film.html>, viewed July 2023
Wyndham Art Gallery, Decade: Wyndham Art Gallery 2011-21, Wyndham Art Gallery, Wyndham City, 2022, p. 18
ANCESTRESS (Teila Watson), Coleman. C.G., Money, Jazz, van Neerven, E. djillong dumularra: Carol McGregor and Judy Watson writing commission, Artspace, Sydney in partnership with Sydney Festival, 2021: https://www.artspace.org.au/media/6402/djillongdumularra_writing_commission.pdf
Art Gallery of New South Wales. ‘How to make bush brushes and monoprints with Judy Watson | #TogetherInArt Making’. Art Gallery of NSWYouTube, 12 June 2021, <youtu.be/zHCLz6RVDHg>, viewed July 2023
Art Gallery of New South Wales. ‘In the frame: Judy Watson on landscape, language and memory’. Art Gallery of NSWYoutube, 11 May 2021, <youtu.be/5p2o_ZGjrpw>, viewed July 2023
Chomicz, Alex and HOTA. ‘Judy Watson: nerung ballon (nerang river), freshwater, saltwater’. In HOTA News 17 May 2021 https://hota.com.au/news/judy-watson-nerung-ballun-nerang-river-freshwater-saltwater-2021 (accessed 19 February, 2025)
Convery, S. ‘From Maralinga bombs to bailer shells: the artistic alchemy of Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce’, The Guardian, January 20, 2021: <theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/20/from-maralinga-bombs-to-bailer-shells-the-artistic-alchemy-of-judy-watson-and-yhonnie-scarce>, viewed July 2023
Glass-Kantor, Alexie (et. al.) UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA (exhibition catalogue). Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2021.
Green, Charles and Cattapan, Jon (eds). Afterstorm: Gardens, Art, Conflict [exhibition catalogue]. Art + Australia Publishing, Southbank, Vic., 2021
HOTA, ‘Judy Watson creates a place of gathering at HOTA Gallery’. In HOTA News, 17 May 2021 https://hota.com.au/news/judy-watson-creates-a-place-of-gathering-at-hota-gallery
(acccessed 19 February 2025)
Martin-Chew, Louise. women of Brisbane: Judy Watson, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, 2021
McHugh, Lucie. ‘Massacre at Myall Creek inspires artist to evoke spirit of survival’. Brisbane Times, 7 February 2021, <brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/massacre-at-myall-creek-inspires-artist-to-evoke-spirit-of-survival-20210203-p56z6f.html>, viewed July 2023
Moline, Katherine, Goddard, Angela, Hayman, Amanda, and Casey, Troy (Blaklash Creative), Davis, Beck, The Data Imaginary: Fears & Fantasies, [exhibition catalogue], Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane 2021
NETS Victoria. ‘Judy Watson interview at Ikon Gallery’. NETS Victoria Vimeo, 2021, <vimeo.com/554511996>, viewed July 2023
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Ray, Rebecca, ‘Judy Watson in collaboration with Elisa Jane Carmichael and Libby Harward nerung ballun (Nerang River), freshwater, saltwater’. In HOTA News, 17 May 2021 https://hota.com.au/news/judy-watson-creates-a-place-of-gathering-at-hota-gallery (accessed 19 February 2025)
Riley Walsh, T. (ed.) On Fire: Climate and Crisis, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2021.
Sawyer, Hamish. ‘Judy Watson: The skin of painting’. Vault, no.33, February–April 2021, pp.72–6
Sawyer, Hamish, ‘The Factory’, in SUNNIE, Issue 2, November 2021, Museum of Brisbane, pp. 7-13
Saint Louis Art Museum. ‘Artist talk: Judy Watson’. Saint Louis Art MuseumYouTube, 2 September 2022, <youtu.be/X_WNKoBvD7c>, viewed July 2023
Waterbright, Sial [editor]. Juncture: First Nations Art at NERAM, [exhibition catalogue], New England Regional Art Museum, 2021, p.14
UAP – Urban Art Projects. ‘Artist interview with Judy Watson’. UAP YouTube, 21 January 2021, <youtu.be/O1aET5oPO58>, viewed July 2023
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. ‘Judy Watson | VCA Art Forum’. University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music YouTube, 24 March 2021, <youtu.be/1oxEo6LaD6s>, viewed July 2023
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Alcaston Gallery, Origins Portfolio: Flipbook by Alcaston Gallery. Online catalogue [2020] https://fliphtml5.com/ibbr/jkmt/ORIGINS_PORTFOLIO/ (accessed 8 February 2025
Bannan, Benjamen. Watson, Judy, ‘Judy Watson’, in Viola, Eugenio and others. Australia: Antipodean Stories. Silvana Editoriale, Milan, Italy, 2020. Pp. 254 – 259
Brett, S. Rite of passage (exhib. cat.), QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, 2020, pp.56-59.
Clugston, H. ‘Judy Watson review: Pain and persecution in a lush and stunning landscape’, The Guardian, 6 March 2020: <theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/05/judy-watson-review-pain-and-persecution-in-a-lush-and-stunning-landscape>, viewed July 2023.
Davidson, Katina. ‘memory scars, dreams and gardens: Judy Watson’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne: https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/judy-watson-2/.
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Blacktown Arts. ‘Terra inFirma: Judy Watson on the process behind her powerful piece’. Blacktown Arts YouTube, 1 April 2020, <youtu.be/9iOwn8NlWAU>, viewed July 2023
Fry, D. ‘Looking Glass’, The Saturday Paper, no. 330, December 5–11: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/art/2020/12/05/looking-glass/160708680010811#hrd; https://thisisnofantasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Satp_DEC05_023.pdf
Gilchrist, Stephen. ‘Defining Moments: “‘Aratjara: Art of the First Australians and ‘Fluent: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson”’. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2020, <acca.melbourne/program/defining-moments-aratjara-art-of-the-first-australians-and-fluent/>, viewed July 2023
Grahame, N., ‘a preponderance of aboriginal blood’, grahame galleries + editions, My Makeshift Studio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcJwmnoYV4E.
Grahame, N., ‘a preponderance of aboriginal blood’, grahame galleries + editions, My Makeshift Studio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5GJP6vuzA&t=3s.
Halloway, Sophia. ‘Through the “Looking Glass” at TarraWarra Museum of Art’. Art Monthly Australasia, no.326, summer 2020, pp.38–9
Lehman, Greg. (editor), Too many Cooks, Plimsoll Gallery and Fine Art Collection, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2020
Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Judy Watson: Such poetry’. Art Collector, no.94, October–December 2020, pp.106–19; see <artcollector.net.au/collectors-dossier-judy-watson/>, viewed July 2023.
Martin-Chew, L. ‘Judy Watson’, in Know My Name Know My Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Naylor, M. ‘Judy Watson, burning boats’. In 50 Treasures: Celebrating 50 years of James Cook University, James Cook University, Townsville, 2020, online : https://nqheritage.jcu.edu.au/727/.
NorthSite Contemporary Arts. ‘Judy Watson and Carol McGregor in conversation with [curator] Shannon Brett, Rite of Passage, NorthSite’. NorthSite Contemporary Arts YouTube, 4 October 2020, <youtu.be/hog8uOSYpM0>, viewed July 2023
O'Brien, Kerrie. ‘Artist created her work with COVID-19 graphs we obsessed over’. Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 2020, <smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/artist-created-her-work-with-covid-19-graphs-we-obsessed-over-20201130-p56j5n.html>, viewed July 2023
Taylor-Davies, O. ‘Judy Watson at the IKON’, Redbrick, issue 1517, March 20: https://www.redbrick.me/review-judy-watson-at-the-ikon/
Ure-Smith, Jane. ‘Heat and dust: Yhonnie Scarce and Judy Watson’. Financial Times [London], 9 May 2020, p.13
Watkins, J. (ed.). Judy Watson (exhib. cat.), Ikon Gallery, Manchester, UK, and e-catalogue: https://www.ikon-gallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Judy-Watson-Catalogue.pdf
Watson, Judy, ‘Mapping Colonial Massacres and Frontier Violence in Australia: “the names of places”. In Cartographica 55:3, University of Toronto Press 2020, pp. 193-198 https://www.academia.edu/90704803/Mapping_Colonial_Massacres_and_Frontier_Violence_in_Australia_the_names_of_places_ (accessed 24 November 2023
a preponderance of aboriginal blood, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane. [Reproduces 2005 artist book of same name, includes additional material, and essay by M. Helmrich.]
Barlow, Geraldine Kirrihi. ‘Judy Watson’. In Water [exhib. cat.), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane, 2019, pp. 112-15.
Beetson, Bianca and Parsons, Rachel. ‘Truth-telling towards reconciliation: Myall Creek and beyond’. Australian Museums and Galleries Association Magazine, vol.27, no.2, winter 2019, pp.46–51
Betterton, Rosemary (ed.). Unframed: Practices and Politics of Women’s Contemporary Painting. IB Tauris & Co., London, 2019.
Brown, Phil. ‘Ripple effect: Still waters run deep in the works of artist Judy Watson’. Brisbane News, 12–18 June 2019, p.14
Davidson, Katina. ‘Judy Watson’. In Cumpston, Nici (et. al.). Tarnanthi 2019 [exhibition catalogue]. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2019, pp.132 – 135.
Kennedy, Rosanne and Graefenstein, Sulamith. ‘From the transnational to the intimate: Multidirectional memory, the Holocaust and colonial violence in Australia and beyond’. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol.32, no.4, 2019, pp.403–22
Lynch, N. ‘The Saint Sequence, Cudtheringa (Castle Hill)’, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art. vol. 19, no. 2, 2019 pp.222–235: and online https://doi.org.10.1080/14434318.2019.1681611.
McBurnie, Jonathon and Williams, Kellie, Legacy: Reflections on Mabo (exhib. cat.), Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, 2019,pp.44–48.
Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture (exhib. cat.), Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, 2019, p. inside cover.
New Woman (exhib. cat.), Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, 2019.
Stolen/Wealth (exhib. cat.), Wyndham Art Gallery
Tate. ‘Judy Watson – “Artists are strange creatures” | Artist interview | TateShots’. Tate YouTube, 2 March 2019, <youtu.be/HDmH8gme2XU?si=DyfWiF1PK2VG43Hp>, viewed July 2023
Watson, Judy and others. Judy Watson, bandarra-gan chidna: strong woman track/track of strong women. Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, 2019
Adeosun, Adams. ‘The Origin of Nightmares’, in Transition: The magazine of Africa and the diaspora, Issue 126, 2018, images reproduced pp. 118,121,124
Ananthuni, Aparna. ‘Water and wisdom’. India Link, 27 February 2018, <indianlink.com.au/arts/water-wisdom/>, viewed July 2023
Art Gallery of New South Wales. ‘Artist Judy Watson’. Art Gallery of NSWYouTube, 17 October 2018, <youtu.be/3xHzF_b0JVU>, viewed July 2023
Balla, Paola and Watson, Judy. ‘The names of places: A conversation with Judy Watson’. RMIT Gallery News, 17 April 2018, <rmitgallery.com/news/the-names-of-places-a-conversation-with-judy-watson/>, viewed July 2023
Barbagallo, Maria. ‘Judy Watson: On location’. YouTube, 5 June 2018, <youtu.be/5w6C9pFpSh0>, viewed July 2023
Barbagallo, Maria. ‘Judy [Watson]: Rubbings and washes in the bush’. YouTube, 5 June 2018, <youtu.be/t0qXCtMrPgk>, viewed July 2023
Barbagallo, Maria. ‘Judy Watson: Witness tree wrapping video 3’. YouTube, 3 June 2018, <youtu.be/TUw8iOSXXXg>, viewed July 2023
Barbagallo, Maria. ‘Judy Watson: Witness tree wrapping video 5’. YouTube, 3 June 2018, <youtu.be/r0jwgucTLdM>, viewed July 2023
Barbagallo, Maria. ‘Judy Watson: Witness tree wrapping video 6’. YouTube, 3 June 2018, <youtu.be/Zh9JU7bovg4>, viewed July 2023
Beetson, B. and other writers. Myall Creek and beyond, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW.
Best, Susan. ‘Anger and repair: The art and politics of Judy Watson’s the holes in the land
2015’. Third Text, vol.32, no.1, January 2018, pp.79–100
Eccles, Jeremy, ‘Indigenous Printmaking’. In Artist Profile. Issue, Jan 26, 2018 pp. and online at https://artistprofile.com.au/indigenous-printmaking/ (accessed 8 February 2025)
Gallery of Children’s Art starting young: Australia’s leading artists compare their childhood art and contemporary practice [exhibition catalogue]. Gallery of Children’s Art, Brisbane, 2018
Galvin, Nick. ‘Cold comfort from ancestors as Indigenous monument revealed’. Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 2018, <smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/cold-comfort-from-ancestors-as-indigenous-monument-revealed-20180807-h13nwo.html>, viewed July 2023
Healy, J. (ed.) The Art of Healing: Australian Indigenous bush medicine, Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne
Heartney, Eleanor. ‘History wars’. Art in America, vol.106, no.9, October 2018, pp.82–9; see <artnews.com/art-in-america/features/history-wars-63562/>, viewed September 2023
‘Judy Watson to create major public artwork honouring the First Peoples of Australia’. Art Guide Australia, 8 August 2018, <artguide.com.au/judy-watson-to-create-major-public-artwork-honouring-the-first-peoples-of-australia/>, viewed July 2023
Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Studio Visit: Inside the Brisbane studio of Judy Watson’. In LOOK: Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, November-December 2018, pp. 66 – 7.
Mendelssohn, J., De Lorenzo, C., Inglis, A., Speck, C. Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2018.
NERAM. Education Resource: Myall Creek and Beyond, NERAM, Armidale, 2018
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. ‘Judy Watson discusses “sacred ground beating heart”’. QAGOMA YouTube, 2 March 2018, <youtu.be/AiWM_ZI6WRY>, viewed July 2023
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. ‘Judy Watson introduces her woven net bronze sculpture “tow row”’. QAGOMA YouTube, 2 March 2018, <youtu.be/AJzoLSmh7YM>, viewed July 2023
Sigglekow, Zara, ‘Looking beyond the Myall Creek massacre’, Art Guide, published 2 August 2018, https://artguide.com.au/looking-beyond-the-myall-creek-massacre/ (Accessed 29 October 2024
Cubillo, Franchesa and Presley, Ryan. ‘Judy Watson’. In Defying Empire: 3rd
National Indigenous Art Triennial [exhibition catalogue]. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2017, pp. 121-123
Dovey, Ceridwen. ‘The mapping of massacres’. New Yorker, 6 December 2017, <newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/mapping-massacres>, viewed July 2023
Gouriotis, Kon. ‘Judy Watson’. Artist Profile, no.39, 2017, pp.84–9
Jacobs, Frank. ‘Blood on the map: Charting Australia’s colonial-era massacres’. Big Think, 18 December 2017, <bigthink.com/strange-maps/blood-on-the-map-charting-australias-colonial-era-massacres/>, viewed July 2023
Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Judy Watson: The scarifier’. Eyeline, issue 86, 2017, pp.80–1
Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Art and Politics’. Eyeline, issue 87, 2017, pp. 32 – 36.
Rak, B. Aura: Repetition, Reproduction and the Mark of the Artist (exhib. cat.), Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Manly, NSW.
Wu, Yu Ye. ‘Q & A with Judy Watson’. National Association for the Visual Arts: News and Opinion, 29 March 2017, <visualarts.net.au/news-opinion/2017/q-judy-watson/>, viewed July 2023
Betts, Alyssa and Ryan, Rosanna. ‘GOMA turns 10: The story behind tow row, Judy Watson's bronze fishing net sculpture’. ABC Radio National, 2 December 2016, <abc.net.au/news/2016-12-02/tow-row-judy-watson-fishing-net-sculpture-goma-turns-10/8082646>, viewed July 2023
City of Gold Coast in partnership with Gold Coast City Gallery, Cross-Currents: from island to mainland, Gold Coast Indigenous Artist Camp, [exhibition catalogue] City of Gold Coast, Gold Coast, 2017
Cole, Kelli. ‘Casting her net’. Artonview [National Gallery of Australia], no.85, January 2016, pp.48–9
Fitzgerald, Shane and Martin, Ralph et. al, [exhibition catalogue] Images of an Era: The Martin Gallery, Gallery Services, Townsville City Council, Townsville, 2016
Gilchrist, Stephen, Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia [exhibition catalogue], Harvard Art Museums, 2016
Hinchliffe, Jessica. ‘Brisbane's 2011 floods, Indigenous history inspire striking painting’. ABC Radio Brisbane, 19 July 2016, <abc.net.au/news/2016-07-19/brisbanes-2011-floods-indigenous-stories-come-together-for-art/7640666>, viewed July 2023
Jackson, Sue, Judy Watson: the scarifier, [exhibition catalogue], Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 2016
Kiddell, Emily. ‘In conversation: Judy Watson’. Imprint, vol.51, no.1, autumn 2016, pp.20–5
Lewandowska, Marysia and Watson, Judy. ‘Conversation with Judy Watson’. Comment is Free: 40 Years, Institute of Modern Art [Brisbane], 2016, <40years.ima.org.au/assets/pdf/CiF_JWatson_Full_Conversation.pdf>, viewed August 2023
Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Making art public’. Artlines [Queensland Art Gallery │ Gallery of Modern Art], no.3, September–November 2016, pp.44–5
McBurnie, Dr Jonathon [editor], Life in the Studio: Thirty Years of Umbrella 1986 – 2016, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, [no date but would be after 2016]
Mitchell-Whittington, Amy. ‘Queensland artist Judy Watson's sculpture to connect past with present’. Sydney Morning Herald, 8 December 2016, <smh.com.au/entertainment/queensland-artist-judy-watsons-sculpture-to-connect-past-with-present-20161202-gt3369.html>, viewed July 2023
National Gallery of Australia. ‘Judy Watson “canyon”’. National Gallery of Australia YouTube, 18 February 2016, <youtu.be/rEyppf3D_HM>, viewed July 2023
National Gallery of Australia. ‘Judy Watson “palm cluster”’. National Gallery of Australia YouTube, 18 February 2016, <youtu.be/zefv2_QnH64>, viewed July 2023
National Gallery of Australia. ‘Judy Watson “two halves with bailer shell”’. National Gallery of Australia YouTube, 18 February 2016, <youtu.be/c74smDIiQr8>, viewed July 2023
Rainforth, Dylan. ‘Judy Watson inspired by history of Coranderrk in new TarraWarra show’. Age
[Melbourne], 8 March 2016, <theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/judy-watson-inspired-by-history-of-coranderrk-in-new-tarrawarra-show-20160308-gndc92.html>, viewed August 2023
Snell, Ted. ‘Here’s looking at: black ground 1989 by Judy Watson’. Conversation, 15 December 2016, <theconversation.com/heres-looking-at-black-ground-1989-by-judy-watson-69767>, viewed July 2023
Exhibitions
Off-site Exhibitions
![<span class="artist">Louise Hearman</span><span class="title"> Untitled #1222</span><span class="year"> 2007</span>, <span class="medium">Oil on masonite</span>, <span class="dimen">61 x 84 cm</span>]( "<span class=\"artist\">Louise Hearman</span><span class=\"title\"> Untitled #1222</span><span class=\"year\"> 2007</span>, <span class=\"medium\">Oil on masonite</span>, <span class=\"dimen\">61 x 84 cm</span>")
Nov 29 – Mar 1, 2026Louise Hearman, Judy Watson‘The City Wakes, The City Sleeps’Tarrawarra Museum of Art![]()
Oct 18 – Mar 1, 2026Richard Bell, Vernon Ah Kee, Judy Watson‘The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art’National Gallery of Art, Washington![<span class="artist">Judy Watson</span><span class="title"> Installation view of bodies of water and melting snow at Milani Gallery</span><span class="year"> 2019</span>]( "<span class=\"artist\">Judy Watson</span><span class=\"title\"> Installation view of bodies of water and melting snow at Milani Gallery</span><span class=\"year\"> 2019</span>")
Oct 17 – Jan 18, 2026Judy Watson, Ryan Presley‘Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi’Art Gallery of South Australia
