mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson

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COVER JUDY WATSON Waanyi people, Australia b.1959 moreton bay rivers, australian temperature chart, freshwater mussels, net, spectrogram (detail) 2022 Indigo dye, graphite, synthetic polymer paint, waxed linen thread and pastel on cotton 247 x 488cm Purchased 2023 with funds raised through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Appeal Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: Natasha Harth PP.6–7 two halves with bailer shell (detail) 2002 Pigment and synthetic polymer paint on canvas 194 x 108cm Purchased 2003 Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra PP.10–11 carpentaria petition 1903, signatories, kangaroo grass, feather, cabbage tree palm (badakalinya kanba, wulu, kunda) (detail) 2021 Volcanic soil, synthetic polymer paint, graphite and waxed linen thread on canvas 180 x 114cm Collection: The artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane (Meeanjin/Magandjin) Photograph: Carl Warner PP.14–15 string over water (alkurrji kingkarri wanami) (detail) 2019 Synthetic polymer paint, graphite, pastel, watercolour pencil on canvas 261 x 180.5cm Acquisition through Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art supported by BHP 2019 Collection: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Photograph: Carl Warner PP.2–3, 18, 19 Boodjamulla Lawn Hill Gorge PP.4–5 Judy Watson and Adele Outteridge dyeing indigo at Outteridge's studio, Yeerongpilly, Brisbane 2023 PP.8–9 Keith Isaacson Senior, Nicholson River near Burketown 1990 Photograph: Joyce Watson P.16 Judy Watson sketchbook drawings of 'The Pinnacles', calcified sand dunes, Nambung National Park, Western Australia 1984 PP.238–9 Judy and Lisa Watson, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, United States Photograph: Melanie Yazzie P.240 Boodjamulla, Waanyi Country Images courtesy: The artist TOURISM AND MEDIA PARTNER MAJOR PARTNER Contributors KATINA DAVIDSON (Kullilli and Yuggera) is Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and curator of 'mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson'. She co-curated the major QAGOMA exhibitions 'Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art' (2022–23) and 'Mavis Ngallametta: ShowMe the Way to Go Home' (2020), and collection-based exhibitions 'Gone Fishing' (2023), 'North by North-West' (2023) and 'Get Up, Stand Up' (2020–23). She also worked with artist Gordon Hookey on his 2021 'The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' (APT) project, and in 2021 was part of the Judy Watson tow row digital reality experience project team at QAGOMA. TARAH HOGUE is the Curator (Indigenous Art) at Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Canada. Her recent exhibitions include 'Storied Objects: Métis Art in Relation' (2022); 'Adrian Stimson: Maanipokaa'iini' (2021); and 'An apology, a pill, a ritual, a resistance' (2021). She has authored catalogue essays for artists including Maureen Gruben, Tania Willard, Henry Tsang and Jin-me Yoon. Hogue is a citizen of the Métis Nation as well as having white settler ancestry. JAZZ MONEY is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose first poetry collection, how to make a basket (2021), won the 2020 David Unaipon Award. With a practice centred in poetics, they produce works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. CHRIS SAINES CNZM is Director, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Judy Watson painting in her studio 2005 GRANTOR Thisproject is supportedby the CopyrightAgency’sCultural Fund 237 236