Judy Watson
(Australia 1959– )
- Language group
- Waanyi, Gulf region
- Title
- red tides
- Place of origin
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Queensland →
Australia
- Year
- 1997
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- pigment and pastel on canvas
- Dimensions
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186.0 x 120.0cm
- Credit
- Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund for Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1999
- Accession number
- 100.1999
- Copyright
- © Judy Watson. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Yiribana Gallery
- Further information
The title comes from newspaper reports of red algae blooms appearing in Sydney Harbour because of too much nitrogen in the water. Watson associated the deadly red blooms with whaling and the sites of Aboriginal massacres where the waters turned red with blood. The work was created for the 1997 Biennale in Venice, another water city where the 'sound of the water is everywhere, especially at high tide, you can hear the waves against the buildings, licking history away'. Her work is about 'memories washing over me', whether the tidal flow of stories from her grandmother's country in Queensland or the history of her Sydney Harbour home - the recurring wash of private and public memory.
Peter Emmett, 'Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour', 2000
- Bibliography (8)
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'art + soul: bringing remote cultural riches to a gallery or screen near you' by Jill Sykes, pg. 28-31., Look Sep 2010, Sep 2010, 30, 31 (colour illus.).
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Art + soul: a journey into the world of Aboriginal art, Carlton, 2010, 42, 43 (colour illus.), 278.
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Margie West (Australia) (Author), Theresa Willsteed (Editor), One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, Sydney, 2007, 308 (colour illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Contemporary Aboriginal art: The Mollie Gowing acquisition fund, Sydney, 2006, (colour illus.). not paginated
Ted Snell (b.1949) (Author), sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989 - 2003, Perth, 2003, 47 (colour illus.), 50, 68.
'1970-2001: International exposure of Aboriginal art' by Jennifer Isaacs, pg. 548-557., Art and Australia (Vol. 39, No. 4) Jun 2002-Aug 2002, Jun 2002-Aug 2002, 551 (colour illus.).
Peter Emmett (Author), Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour, Glebe, 2000, 141 (colour illus.), 142.
Michael Lynch (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997 Australia, Sydney, 1997, (colour illus.), 46. cat. no. 11
- Exhibition history (10)
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Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, La Biennale di Venezia, 15 Jun 1997–09 Nov 1997.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Dec 1997–15 Feb 1998.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, The Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, 13 Mar 1998–03 May 1998.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 05 Jun 1998–05 Jul 1998.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 17 Jul 1998–06 Aug 1998.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, Tandanya, 26 Aug 1998–08 Nov 1998.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 20 Nov 1998–31 Jan 1999.
Harbour, Museum of Sydney, 05 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989 - 2002, John Curtin Gallery, 26 Sep 2003–09 Nov 2003.
The Dreamers (2009-10), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 May 2009 -.
