Judy Watson at IKON Gallery, 4 March — 31 May 2020

https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/judy-watson/

"Ikon presents the most comprehensive UK exhibition to date by Australian Aboriginal artist Judy Watson, as part of an international tour developed in partnership with TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia.

Born in Mundubbera, Queensland, Watson derives inspiration from her matrilineal Waanyi heritage, often conveyed through collective memory, using it as a foil for the archival research that informs much of her practice. The latter spells out an unceasing and institutional discrimination against Aboriginal people, described by curatorial advisor Hetti Perkins as “Australia’s ‘secret war’”.

Related:

Symposium: Culture and Country in Aboriginal Australia

Organised in partnership with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

A day symposium responding to Ikon’s exhibitions by Australian artists Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce. Both place emphasis on environmental issues, Indigenous cultural traditions and Britain’s colonial legacy. Speakers include the artists, Aboriginal writer and curator Hetti Perkins and Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator and Head of Oceania, The British Museum.


Register

Friday 06 March

Council Room
Strand Campus
King's College London
London, WC2R 2LS

09:30: Doors Open

13:30: Afternoon Session

16:00  End


I'll try to go. I have two very powerful signed and numbered lithographs by Judy Watson, as below: 


SWIMMING IN BLOOD, 1997, colour lithograph, 29.0 x 67.5 cm,
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image

and

our skin in your collections

"Judy Watson is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. Her art explores territory that includes the dispossessed Indigenous Australians with whom she shares a family history and heritage. Judy Watson's art is intense and sublime in its physicality. blood language is a beautifully illustrated pictorial exploration of some of Judy Watson's seminal canvases, works on paper, sculptural projects and artist's books. Judy Watson imparts the artist's ideas and writer Louise Martin-Chew gives another insight into the artist's practice. Water, skin, poison, dust and blood, ochre, bones and driftnet are defining themes in an empathetic art that seeks to find a broader geography of belonging. Watson creates highly sophisticated works of beauty that are subtly political and intensely personal".

Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrbz5Sl6Abs