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Heartwood 2004
colour lithograph
2021.82
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021
About the artist and their work:
Judy Watson was born in Mundubbera, Queensland in the late 1950s. She studied at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba and at the University of Tasmania (1980–82). In Tasmania she trained in printmaking and became a leading First Nations artist. Watson won the Moët & Chandon Fellowship in 1995 and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1997, along with Yvonne Koolmatrie and Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Most recently, she presented a two-person exhibition The Red Thread of History with artist Helen Johnson at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and at the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2022.
