Judy Watson, an Aboriginal descendant of the Waanyi people of north-east Queensland, has gained wide national and international recognition. She was one of three Australian Aboriginal women artists chosen to represent Australia in the 1997 Venice Biennale…
With its inner concentric detail, the visible ‘half’ in Judy Watson’s ceiling installation at the Musée du quai Branly is an organic form suggestive of a split seedpod, or the fossils for which the artist’s country is renowned…