Judith Wright (artist) explained

Judith Wright (born 1945) in Meanjin (Brisbane) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking and assemblage.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Her work explores universal human experiences of loss, impermanence and vulnerability.^[4] 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.

Education and career

Wright graduated from the Queensland University of Technology in 2002 with a Master in Fine Art.

Wright has a background in dance, and was a dancer for The Australian Ballet^[5] before beginning her visual arts practice in the 1970s.^[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.

Awards

Wright received an Arts Queensland fellowship in 1993, as well as a Queensland Government Professional Development grant in 1998.

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.

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.

Solo

• Judith Wright: Desire, QUT Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2014)
• 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

• Meet the Artists, State Library of Queensland (2023)
• 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) ^[7]
• Contemporary Australia: Women, The Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Black Box White Cube, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne (2011)
• 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

External links

• Judith Wright digital story, educational interview and oral history: James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews 2010-2015, State Library of Queensland

Notes and References

1. Book: Barlow, Geraldine . Know My Name . National Gallery of Australia . 2020 . 9780642334879 . Australia . 375 . English.
2. Web site: Judith Wright . 2022-03-12 . AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia . en.
3. Web site: Silent Memories V, 1994, Silent Memories by Judith Wright . 2022-03-12 . www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au . en.
4. Web site: Judith Wright biography . 2022-03-12 . Design and Art Australia Online.
5. Web site: 2018-01-02 . Collectors Love: Judith Wright . 2022-03-12 . Art Collector Magazine . en-AU.
6. Web site: Judith Wright MCA Australia . 2022-03-12 . www.mca.com.au . en.
7. Book: Marsh, Anne . Doing Feminism: Women's Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia . The Miegunyah Press . 2021 . 9780522877588 . Carlton, Victoria . 264 . English.