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Details
- Date
- 2016
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- acrylic, wax on five sheets of Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 200.0 x 200.0 cm each sheet; 200.0 x 1000.0 cm overall approximately
- Credit
- Contemporary Collection Benefactors' 2016
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 267.2016.a-e
- Copyright
- © Judith Wright
- Artist information
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Judith Wright
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About
'Significant others' is a return to painting following a ten-year hiatus for Judith Wright in which the artist has been preoccupied with a series of sculptural installations (‘Journey’, ‘Destination’ and ‘Ancestors’).
The new works comprise a series of large abstract paintings in acrylic and wax on Japanese paper. They could be read as monolithic landscapes; as part of the artist’s personal narrative, they retain traces of physical as well as symbolic form. The pigments are applied in layers, with an accretion of translucent wash building up the forms, lending them a dense and complex subtlety of colour and tone.
'Significant Others' comprises of three major groups, the largest being this work, a quintet which stretches a little over 10 metres in length.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Judith Wright: significant others, Jensen Gallery, Paddington, 17 Feb 2016–26 Mar 2016
Here we are, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Aug 2019–13 Oct 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Lisa Catt and Justin Paton, Here we are, 'Judith Wright in conversation with Hannah Hutchison', pg. 40-43, Sydney, Aug 2019, 40 (colour illus., detail), 43 (colour illus., detail), 44-45 (colour illus.).
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