Judy Watson
(Australia 1959– )
- Language group
- Waanyi, Gulf region
- Title
- red tides
- Place of origin
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Queensland,
Australia
- Year
- 1997
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- pigment and pastel on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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
- Not on display
- 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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Look (Sep 2010), Jill Sykes (Australia) (Editor), 10pm [print management] (Australia).
Art + soul: a journey into the world of Aboriginal art (2010), Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), The Miegunyah Press (Australia), Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia (2007), Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Margie West (Australia) (Author), Theresa Willsteed (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Contemporary Aboriginal art: The Mollie Gowing acquisition fund (2006), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989 - 2003 (2003), Ted Snell (b.1949) (Author), John Curtin Gallery (Australia), Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Art and Australia (Vol. 39, No. 4) (Jun 2002-Aug 2002), Laura Murray Cree (Australia) (Editor), Fine Arts Press Pty Limited (Australia), St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour (2000), Peter Emmett (Author), Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1980), Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997 Australia (1997), Michael Lynch (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Exhibition history (10)
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Harbour, (05 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000), at Museum of Sydney (Australia, estab. 1995), 37 Phillip Street Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, (05 Jun 1998–05 Jul 1998), at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Australia, estab. 1984), Dallas Brooks Drive South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3141.
The Dreamers (2009-10), (09 May 2009), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain Sydney New South Wales Australia 2000.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, (13 Mar 1998–03 May 1998), at The Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University (Australia).
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, (15 Jun 1997–09 Nov 1997), at La Biennale di Venezia (Italy).
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, (17 Jul 1998–06 Aug 1998), at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Australia), GPO Box 1434 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 4001.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, (20 Dec 1997–15 Feb 1998), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, (20 Nov 1998–31 Jan 1999), at Art Gallery of Western Australia (Australia), 47 James Street Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6000.
Fluent, La Biennale di Venezia 1997, Australia, (26 Aug 1998–08 Nov 1998), at Tandanya (Australia, estab. 1989).
sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989 - 2002, (26 Sep 2003–09 Nov 2003), at John Curtin Gallery (Australia), Curtin University of Technology Bentley Campus Perth, Western Australia, Australia.