Judy Watson

Peter Bellas Gallery, Queensland

Private Collection

24 HR Art -Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, cumulus: Recent work by Judy Watson, September 15 - October 6 , 2001

Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown, Terra inFirma, March 7 - May 23, 2020

Judy Watson and Louise Martin Chew, judy watson blood language, Carlton, 2009, pp. 60-61

"In the monograph in which this painting is reproduced the artist writes, 'The mound form seems to spin and cut through the space/blue wash. You almost feel the sharp edge of the axe (upon your fingers). I came upon a scattered collection of axe heads and other stone tools covered in debris when I was making this work. The pink oval protected within the dark form is foetus-like, the scar left in the bark of a tree when a shield or other implement has been cut out of the still-living tree. I am attracted to scar trees, middens, scatters of stone tools and other signs of Aboriginal occupation of the land, Cultural artefacts resonate with mark/breath of the artist. I feel this particularly strongly when I come across material culture from my area. Waanyi country extends across the Northern Territory border and defies white boundaries - the line of the map cuts through it." (ibid, p. 60)