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An image of the guardians by Judy Watson An image of the guardians by Judy Watson An image of the guardians by Judy Watson An image of the guardians by Judy Watson An image of the guardians by Judy Watson An image of the guardians by Judy Watson

Judy Watson

(Australia 1959– )

Language group
Waanyi, Gulf region
Title
the guardians
Place of origin
Queensland → Australia
Year
1986-1987
Media category
Sculpture
Materials used
powder pigment on plywood
Dimensions

5 figures: each 180.0 x 58.0cm (irreg.):

a - figure; 180 x 58cm; each figure

Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1990
Accession number
196.1990.a-e
Copyright
© Judy Watson. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (9)

Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Margie West (Australia) (Author), Theresa Willsteed (Editor), One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, Sydney, 2007, 304.

Ted Snell (b.1949) (Author), sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989 - 2003, Perth, 2003, 20.

Margo Neale (Australia) (Editor), Sylvia Kleinert (Australia) (Editor), The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, South Melbourne, 2000, 735 (illus.). illus.no. 402

Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 228 (colour illus.).

Joan Kerr (Australia, b.1938, d.2004) (Editor), Jo Holder (Australia) (Editor), Past present: the national women's art anthology, North Ryde, 1999, 24 (illus.), 25. figure no. 3.2

Jenny Aland (Editor), Max Darby (Editor), Art Connections, Port Melbourne, 1998, 52 (colour illus.).

Margo Neale (Australia) (Author), Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 58, 59 (colour illus.), 138-39. plate no. 28

Yiribana 1994, 1994, 7 (colour illus.).

Stephen Weeks (Editor), Greg Hilty (Editor), Thomas Hauffe (Editor), Aratjara: art of the first Australians, Dusseldorf, 1993, 317 (colour illus.), 351. cat.no. 135

Exhibition history (4)

Aratjara: art of the first Australians, Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 23 Apr 1993–04 Jul 1993.

Aratjara: art of the first Australians, Hayward Gallery, 23 Jul 1993–10 Oct 1993.

Aratjara: art of the first Australians, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 11 Feb 1994–23 May 1994.

The Dreamers (2009-10), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 May 2009 -.