Judy Watson Napangardi
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About the Artist
c. 1928 - 2016
Judy Watson was born in c.1925 at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, at the time when many Warlpiri and other Central and Western Desert Peoples were living a traditional nomadic life.
With her family Judy made many trips on foot back to and lived for long periods at Mina Mina and Yingipurlangu, her ancestral country on the border of the Tanami and Gibson Deserts. These places are rich in bush tucker such as wanakiji (bush plums), yakajirri (bush tomatoes) and wardapi (sand goanna). Up until she passed away peacefully in 2016 Judy frequently went hunting in the country west of Yuendumu, near her homelands.
Judy was taught painting by her elder sister, Maggie Napangardi Watson. She painted alongside her at Warlukurlangu artists for a number of years, developing her own unique style. Though a very tiny woman, Judy had ten children, two of whom she outlived. She was a woman of incredible energy, this was transmitted to her work through her dynamic use of colour and the energetic "dragged dotting" style and she developed a popular and distinctive style of contrasting lines of colour with richly textured surfaces.
Judy was at the forefront of a move towards more abstract rendering of Jukurrpa (Dreamings) by Warlpiri artists, however her work retains strong kurruwarri, the details which tell of the sacredness of place and song in her culture. Judy's Dreamings are Ngarlyipi (Snake Vine), Karnta (Woman), Mina Mina, and Kanakurlangu.
In 2007 she was selected as one of the 50 most collectable artists by Australian Art Collector.
Selected Commissions
• Janganpa / Mawurrji Jukurrpa (Native Possum & Mawurrji Dreaming)
11m x1m large collaborative canvas for the foyer of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra
Selected Collections
• Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Gordon Darling Foundation, ACT
• Flinders University Art Museum, SA
• National Gallery of Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria
• South Australian Museum, SA
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
• Judy Napangardi Watson, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2005
• Karnta Jukurrpa, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2004
• Judy Napangardi Watson, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
• Yilpinji, Love, Magic and Ceremony, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France
2004
• New Paintings by Judy Napangardi Watson And Betsy Napangardi Lewis, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
• Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Australian Aboriginal Art Collector's Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
• Explained, A closer look at Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2003
• Colours of Mina Mina, Raft Artspace, Darwin
• 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2002
• Warlukurlangu Artists, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, USA
• New Works from Warlukurlangu, Indigenart, Perth
• Warlukurlangu Artists Cooperative of Yuendumu One Union Square Lobby, Seattle, USA
• New Paintings from Yuendumu, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
• Warlukurlangu Collection Parliament House, Canberra
2000
• Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle
• Kurawari, Desart Gallery, Sydney
• Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
• Marking the Paper, Desart Gallery, Sydney
• Journey to the North West, Palya Art, Sydney
1999
• International Women's Day Exhibition, Alice Springs
• Mina Mina, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1998
• Art Gallery Culture Store, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• A Thousand Journeys, Tin Shed Gallery, University of Sydney
• Kurrawarri - Kirli, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1997
• Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1995
• SOFA, Miami and Chicago, U.S.A
• Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994
• Armstrong Gallery, Florida
• Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria
• Echoes of the Dreamtime, Osaka, Japan
1993
• Adelaide Town Hall, (in association with The Pacific Arts Symposium)
• Northern Territory Art Award, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
• Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
• CINAFE (Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition), U.S.A.
1992
• The Long Gallery, Hobart
• Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney
1991
• Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin
1990
• I.U.N.C. (showing at Hilton Hotel), Perth
• Women's Exhibition, The Women's Gallery, Melbourne
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