Judith WRIGHT
artist

Judith Wright lives and works in Brisbane where she was born in 1945. She came to her work as an installation artist with a background in dance having performed with the Australian Ballet. Judith participated in the India/Australia collaborative exchange project Fire and Life in Calcutta in 1996; the Fire and Life residency at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; and Celebrate Australia, in Tokyo, 1993. Recipient of a Fellowship from Arts Queensland and awarded a professional development grant from the Queensland Government in 1998, Judith has taught at the Queensland University of Technology and at the College of Art, Griffith University, and was appointed to the board of the Queensland Art Gallery in 1999.

Group exhibition highlights include Australia: Familiar and Strange, Seoul Art Centre, Korea in 1996, Australian Perspecta in 1989, 1997 and 1999, Unfamiliar Territory Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 1992, and Another Landscape: Life/History/Language at Saitama, Tokyo, Nagoya and Bombay 1998--99. In 1999 she collaborated with composer Liza LIM on Sonorous Bodies for ELISION Ensemble at the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, and again at the Hebbel Theater, Berlin, in 2001. Her work is represented in several university collections and public collections including the Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Australia and the Kawaguchi Museum Contemporary Art Saitama.

March 2002

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