Australian artist
Judith Wright (born 1945) in
Meanjin (Brisbane) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking and assemblage.
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Her work explores universal human experiences of loss, impermanence and vulnerability.
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[1] Wright’s figurative sculptural installations use theatrical props and lighting to investigate these themes, and reflect her experience as a dancer in
The Australian Ballet.
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Education and career
Wright graduated from the
Queensland University of Technology in 2002 with a Master in Fine Art.
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Wright has a background in dance, and was a dancer for The Australian Ballet
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[6] She worked as a lecturer at both the Queensland University of Technology and the
Queensland College of Art at Griffith University. She was a
Queensland Art Gallery Board Member from 1999-2002.
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Awards
Wright received an Arts Queensland fellowship in 1993, as well as a Queensland Government Professional Development grant in 1998.
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Exhibitions
Wright has exhibited solo exhibitions in public institutions in Australia including the QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Artspace, Mackay; Performance Space, Sydney;
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; and the
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
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Group exhibitions have included
Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes at the National Gallery of Victoria
; All our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney; and
Contemporary Australia: Women,
The Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
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Solo
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Judith Wright: Desire, QUT Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2014)
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Judith Wright – conversations,
UQ Art Museum, Brisbane (2008)
- Judith Wright: Breath and Other Considerations,
Artspace, Mackay, Queensland (2007)
- Judith Wright: selected video works 1997–2004,
Performance Space, Sydney (2005)
- One Dances, Creative Industries Precincts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2004)
- Blind of Sight,
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2002)
- Projections for Eliza, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane (1999)
- Silent Measure,
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (1996).
Group
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Meet the Artists,
State Library of Queensland (2023)
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Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2015)
- All our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney,
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Cockatoo Island, Sydney (2012)
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- Contemporary Australia: Women, The Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Black Box White Cube,
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne (2011)
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Contemporary Encounters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2010)
- Where Angels Tread, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide (2006)
- Slow Rushes: Takes on the documentary sensibility in moving images from around Asia and the Pacific, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2005)
- Home with No Walls, Open Circle and Sahmat, Mumbai, India (2003).
Collections
Wright's work is held in state and national collections, including:
- Artbank, Sydney
- Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
- Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Parliament House Collection, Canberra
- Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- The University of Sydney, Sydney
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