For more than four decades, Judy Watson has fashioned works of art channelling the stories of her family’s Waanyi Country in northern Queensland.
mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri – meaning “tomorrow the tree grows stronger” – is a comprehensive survey of the artist’s incisive meditations on colonial, social and ecological concerns. The exhibition includes 130 works, across painting, prints, sculpture, installation and video, from an artistic practice centred on truth-telling around the environment, historical government policy affecting Indigenous Australians, and institutions that collect First Nations cultural material and remains.
Judy Watson, Waanyi people, Australia b 1959, memory bones, 2007, pigment and pastel on canvas, 211 × 127cm. The James C Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C Sourris through the QAG Foundation 2010. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. © Judy Watson/Copyright Agency. Courtesy the artist and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Queensland Art Gallery
23 March to 11 August 2024
Brisbane
