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JUDITH WRIGHT
Judith Wright lives and works in Brisbane. She came to her work as an
installation artist with a background in dance having performed with the
Australian Ballet. Recipient of a fellowship from Arts Queensland in
1993 and awarded a professional development grant from the Queensland
Government in 1998, Judith has taught at the Queensland University of
Technology and the College of Art, Griffith University. She was
appointed to the board of the Queensland Art Gallery from 1999-2002,and
received a Master of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology
in 2002. Judith participated in the India/Australia collaborative
exchange project Fire and Life in Calcutta in 1996; the Fire and Life
residency at the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane; and Celebrate
Australia in Tokyo in 1993. She collaborated with composer Lisa Lim on
Sonorous Bodies for Elision contemporary music at the Third Asia Pacific
Triennial, and the Hebbel Theatre Berlin. Judith was also commissioned
by Elision to produce a video work for Inferno with composer John
Rodgers in 2002. In 2005, Wright completed a residency at the Australia
Council’s Greene St. studio in New York.
Judith’s work is represented in
several university collections and public collections including the
National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art,
Saitama.
Judith Wright has presented 26
individual exhibitions, and been included in over 50 group exhibitions.
Individual exhibitions include:
| 1991 |
Uncovered Language, Artspace, Sydney |
| 1993 |
Silence echoes in the Hollow of the Hand,
Gallery Lunami, Tokyo; |
| 1994 |
Breath of Silence, Gallery Finarte,
Nagoya
Breath of Silence, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo |
| 1996 |
Silent Measure, Australian Centre for
Photography, Sydney |
| 1997 |
Skin of Memory, University Art Museum,
University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| 1999 |
Projections for Eliza, University Art
Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| 2002 |
Blind of Sight, Institute of Modern Art,
Brisbane
Blind of Sight (Now), Gardens Theatre, QUT Precinct,
Brisbane
Blind of Sight, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney |
| 2004 |
One Dances, Creative Industries
Precincts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
One Dances, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney |
| 2005 |
Relative Conversations, Jan Manton Art,
Brisbane
Judith Wright: selected video works 1997 – 2004,
Performance Space, Sydney |
| 2006 |
In Praise of Darkness: Conversations with the
Father, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney |
Group exhibitions include:
| 1989 |
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney |
| 1992 |
Unfamiliar Territory, Adelaide Biennial
of Australian Art, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide |
| 1993 |
The Nature of Space, Institute of Modern
Art, Brisbane |
| 1994 |
An Exotic Otherness, Crossing Brisbane
Lines, CAST, Tasmania and touring |
| 1995 |
Seven-ness collaboration with Dominico de
Clario, I M A, Brisbane |
| 1996 |
re collection - The Griffith University Art
Collection 25 years, Brisbane City Gallery
Australia: Familiar and Strange, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea
Fire and Life with Jayashree Chakravarty, Gallery 88,
Calcutta; |
| 1997 |
Fire and Life with Jayashree Chakravarty,
I.M.A, Brisbane and touring
A Gift for India, SAHMAT, New Delhi and touring
Space and Gravity, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Temple of Earth Memories, between Art & Nature, Australian
Perspecta, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney |
| 1998 |
Another Landscape: Life/ History/ Language
with Kaoru Hirabayashi and
Nalini Malani; Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama;
Gallery
Lunami, Tokyo; Galleria Finarte, Nagoya. |
| 1999 |
Agency: Living Here Now, Australian Perspecta,
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Sonorous Bodies, Elision contemporary music with Liza
Lim, Third Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane City Hall
Another Landscape: Life/History/Language, Max Mueller
Bhavan, German Cultural Centre, Bombay |
| 2000 |
Tachikawa International Art Festival 2000,
Tokyo
Another Landscape, I.M.A Brisbane, Monash University
Gallery, Melbourne
Lightness of Being, with Pinaree Sanpitak, Queensland Art
Gallery |
| 2001 |
Paper works: Australian Artists exploring
drawing and the printed image, Queensland Art Gallery
Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1, Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney, and The Ian Potter Museum of Art,
University of Melbourne
Sonorous Bodies, Elision contemporary music with Liza
Lim, Hebbel Theatre Berlin |
| 2002 |
Inferno, Elision contemporary music with
John Rodgers, Brisbane Powerhouse
Meridian; Currents in Australian Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 2004 |
The Look of Faith, Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane
Slow Rushes: Takes on the Documentary Sensibility in Moving
Images from around Asia and the Pacific, Contemporary Art
Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 2005 |
Slow Rushes: Takes on the documentary
Sensibility in Moving Images from around Asia and the Pacific,
Artspace, Auckland
Your Sky, Gigantic Art Space[GAS] New York
The Harries National Digital Art Award, QUT creative
industries precinct, Brisbane, and Today Art Museum Beijing Film
Academy, Beijing |
| 2006 |
Where Angles Tread, Contemporary Art
Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne |
| 2006-2008 |
Queensland Live, Queensland Art Gallery
touring exhibition |
Performance
| 1997 |
Body as Site, erasure of work of Nalini
Malini with Vanessa Mafe,
Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,
Queensland Art Gallery |
| 1998 |
Trace, with Kaoru Hirabayashi, Kawaguchi
Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama |
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Represented by GRANTPIRRIE gallery Sydney,
Jan
Manton Art Brisbane.
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