Judith Wright (artist)
Judith Wright (born 1945) in Meanjin (Brisbane) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking and assemblage.[1][2][3]
Her work explores universal human experiences of loss, impermanence and vulnerability.[4][1] Wright’s figurative sculptural installations use theatrical props and lighting to investigate these themes, and reflect her experience as a dancer in The Australian Ballet.[4]
Education and career
Wright graduated from the Queensland University of Technology in 2002 with a Master in Fine Art.[4]
Wright has a background in dance, and was a dancer for The Australian Ballet[5] before beginning her visual arts practice in the 1970s.[6] She worked as a lecturer at both the Queensland University of Technology and the Queensland College of Art at Griffith University. She was a Queensland Art Gallery Board Member from 1999-2002.[4]
Awards
Wright received an Arts Queensland fellowship in 1993, as well as a Queensland Government Professional Development grant in 1998.[4]
Exhibitions
Wright has exhibited solo exhibitions in public institutions in Australia including the QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Artspace, Mackay; Performance Space, Sydney; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.[6]
Group exhibitions have included Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes at the National Gallery of Victoria ; All our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney; and Contemporary Australia: Women, The Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.[6]
Solo
- Judith Wright: Desire, QUT Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2014)
- Judith Wright – conversations, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane (2008)
- Judith Wright: Breath and Other Considerations, Artspace, Mackay, Queensland (2007)
- Judith Wright: selected video works 1997–2004, Performance Space, Sydney (2005)
- One Dances, Creative Industries Precincts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2004)
- Blind of Sight, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2002)
- Projections for Eliza, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane (1999)
- Silent Measure, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (1996).
Group
- Meet the Artists, State Library of Queensland (2023)
- Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2015)
- All our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Cockatoo Island, Sydney (2012) [7]
- Contemporary Australia: Women, The Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Black Box White Cube, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne (2011)
- Contemporary Encounters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2010)
- Where Angels Tread, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide (2006)
- Slow Rushes: Takes on the documentary sensibility in moving images from around Asia and the Pacific, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2005)
- Home with No Walls, Open Circle and Sahmat, Mumbai, India (2003).
Collections
Wright's work is held in state and national collections, including:
- Artbank, Sydney
- Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
- Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Parliament House Collection, Canberra
- Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- The University of Sydney, Sydney
References
- Barlow, Geraldine (2020). Know My Name. Australia: National Gallery of Australia. p. 375. ISBN 9780642334879.
- "Judith Wright". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- "Silent Memories V, 1994, Silent Memories by Judith Wright". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- "Judith Wright biography". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- "Collectors Love: Judith Wright". Art Collector Magazine. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- "Judith Wright | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- Marsh, Anne (2021). Doing Feminism: Women's Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia. Carlton, Victoria: The Miegunyah Press. p. 264. ISBN 9780522877588.