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‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024

 A view of ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’, featuring walama 2000 (Courtesy: The artist, Milani Gallery and UAP Brisbane) installed on the QAG Watermall, with moreton bay rivers, australian temperature chart, freshwater mussels, net, spectrogram 2022 at back left, QAG, 14 March 2024 / © Judy Watson / Photograph: C Callistemon

For more than four decades, Judy Watson has created powerful, ethereal works of art channelling the stories of her family’s Waanyi Country in north-west Queensland. ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’ is a comprehensive survey of the artist’s incisive meditations on colonial, social and ecological concerns. It is her most extensive solo exhibition to date.

The exhibition title, translated as ‘tomorrow the tree grows stronger’, is taken from a poem in Waanyi language by the artist’s son Otis Carmichael. Just as a young tree grows in strength, the act of reclaiming and voicing Indigenous language encourages a regeneration of culture.

The exhibition includes 130 works from an artistic practice centred on truth-telling around the environment, historical government policy affecting Indigenous Australians, and institutions that collect First Nations cultural material and remains.

In this resource, find out more about works from the QAGOMA Collection featured in the exhibition, or explore the full exhibition catalogue


‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’ is on display at QAG from 23 March to 11 August 2024.




Feature image: A view of works by Judy Watson, installed on the Watermall for ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri’, with a glimpse of moreton bay rivers, australian temperature chart, freshwater mussels, net, spectrogram at back left, QAG, 14 March 2024 / © Judy Watson / Photograph: C Callistemon

Collection artworks featured in ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’

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