SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Propositions, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Propositiona, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Desire, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2009
Desire, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Conversations, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2008
The Gift, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
Judith Wright - Conversations, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
A Continuing Fable, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2007
Between, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Judith Wright: Breath and Other Considerations, Artspace, Mackay
2006
In Praise of Darkness: Conversations with the Father, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
In Praise of Darkness: Conversations with the Father, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2005
Judith Wright: Selected Video Works 1997 - 2004, Performance Space, Sydney
Relative Conversations, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2004
One Dances, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
One Dances, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
2002
Blind of Sight, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Blind of Sight (Now), Gardens Theatre, QUT Precinct, Brisbane
Blind of Sight, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1999
Projections for Eliza, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Fluid, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1998
Breathe, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
1997
Skin of Memory, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Rhythm of Memory, Magazine Space, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Brisbane
1996
Blind Hands, Annandale Gallery, Sydney
Silent Measure, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Two Hands, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
1995
Image of Absence, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
Second stage, Seventeen mile rocks, Brisbane
Silent Measure, 184 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne (courtesy Milburn Gallery, Brisbane)
1994
Breath of Silence, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Breath of Silence, Gallery Finarte, Nagoya
1993
(Untitled), Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
Shadow of Silence, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Silent Echoes in The Hollow Hand, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
1992
Palm of the Hand, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1991
Uncovered Language, Artspace, Sydney
1990
Judith Wright – Books and Drawings, Milburn and Arte, Brisbane
1989
(Untitled), Lennox Street, Melbourne
(Untitled), Milburn and Arte, Brisbane
1987
(Untitled), Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
18th Biennale of Sydney: All our relations, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney
Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane
Volume One: The MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Architecture of Colour, Jensen Gallery, Sydney
Daya/Kindness, Australia – India Cultural Exchange, Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre, Delhi, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Physical Video, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Black box / White Cube, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Drawn to Abstraction, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2010
Love, Loss and Intimacy, NGV (International), National Gallery of Victoria
2008
Silver – Lined: Contemporary Artists and the Performing Arts Collection, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Wilson HTM National Art Prize (touring exhibition), GRANTPIRRIE, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Jan Manton Art
2007
Portal, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
ARC; Art Design and Craft Biennial, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2006-08
Queensland Live (touring exhibition), Queensland Art Gallery
2006
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Where Angels Tread, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
The Tallis Foundation 2006 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic
HarriesIDA China – 06, Beijing Film Academy Gallery, Beijing
The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Screenings: International and Australian New Media, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2005
The Harries National Digital Art Award, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane & Today Art Museum, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing
Your Sky, Gigantic Art Space (GAS), New York
Slow Rushes: Takes on the documentary sensibility in moving images from around Asia and the Pacific, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2004
White Light, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Slow Rushes: Takes on the documentary sensibility in moving images from around Asia and the Pacific’, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Look of Faith, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2003
The Way Things Are, GRANTPIRRIE, Redfern, Sydney
One SQUAREMILE: Brisbane Boundaries, Museum of Brisbane
Home with No Walls, Open Circle and Sahmat, Mumbai
2002
Meridian: Focus on Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Inferno, Elison contemporary music with John Rodgers, Brisbane Powerhouse
2001
Phenomena: New Painting in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Paper works: Australian Artists exploring drawing and the printed image, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
New painting in Australia 1: Phenomena, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sonorous Bodies, Elision contemporary music with Liza Lim, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin
2000
Tachikawa International Art Festival, Tokyo
Five Queensland Artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Another Landscape, I.M.A Brisbane & Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Spitting and Biting, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Lightness of Being’ with Pinaree Sanpitak, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
PERFORMANCES
1998
Trace, with Kaoru Hirabayashi, Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama
1997
Body as Site, erasure of work of Nalini Malini with Vanessa Mafe, Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
Griffith University, Brisbane
Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan
Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of Sydney, Sydney
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney
WestpacPrivate Bank
DEVELOPMENT
2010
Australia Council Fellowship, with special acknowledgement of the visual arts and craft strategy
2006
Project Grant, Arts Queensland, Queensland Government
2003
Greene St. New York studio residency from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council
2002
Received a Master of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology
1999-02
Appointed as a member of the Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees
1998
Professional Development grant from the Arts Office, Queensland Government
1997
Fire and Life Residency, Institute of Modern Art (I.M.A), Brisbane
Presentation grant from The Arts Office, Queensland Government
1996-97
Lecturer, College of Art, Griffith University
1996
Fire and Life Artists Exchange Project, Calcutta, India
Project Grant from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council
1994
Project Grant from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council
1993
Fellowship from Arts Queensland, Queensland Government
1990-98
Tutor - Queensland University of Technology
1966-70
The Australian Ballet
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ewington, J., Judith Wright, Shadows and Shades, Contemporary Australia Women, Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2012
Serisier, G, A Quiet Proposal, Australian Art Collector, Issue 58, 2011
Kents, R., A Continuing Fable (catalogue essay), GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, 2008
Davenport, R., Judith Wright : Conversations; Raffel, S., One Dances and Between; Lim, L., White, Red, Black: Three Stages of Illuminations; Helmrich, M., The Veil of Dark Waters, Beyond Voice; Goodman, J., Judith Wright: Colour’s Gift; Ewington, J., Moving; in ‘Judith Wright: Conversations 1987-2007’, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2007
Kirker, A., Judith Wright: Conversations, (book review) Art Monthly Australia, Issue #210 June 2008, pp. 44-46
Lewis, C., Judith Wright, Exh. Catalogue, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, 2007
Bruce, C., In Praise of Darkness: Life and Death in the Work of Judith Wright, exh. catalogue, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, 2006
Gellatly, K., and Smith, J., 2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award exh. catalogue
Raffel S., One Dances exh. cat. GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, 2004
Cassim, J., Wright Seeks Shape of Dialogue, ‘The Japan Times’, 24 Apr. 2004
Desmond, M., Judith Wright - Each sigh is the stillness of the shriek, ‘Art & Australia’, Autumn vol. 30 no. 3., 2003
Weston, N., Talent transcends medium, ‘The Western Australian’, Perth, 23 March 2002
Dasqupta, S., Landscapes and Inscapes, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 25 Oct. 2002
Webb, V., A Sensual Aesthetic: the art of Judith Wright, ‘Meridian: focus on contemporary Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002.
Timms, P., The Shape of Air (Flat). Bett Gallery, Hobart. 2002
McLean, S., Free to connect, ‘The Courier Mail’, Brisbane, Brisbane 5th July, 2002
Martin-Chew, L., Sensuous curves reveal the body’s stripped essence, ‘The Australian’, 10 May, 2002
McDougall, R., Tactile Spaces, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2002
Mafe, D., Judith Wright - the night stage of memory illuminated, Working Spaces, 2002
Wardell, M., Phenomena, Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001
Matthews, K., Another Landscape:Life/History/Language, ‘Eyeline’, Brisbane, no.45, Autumn/Winter 2001
Geczy, A., The same old song, ‘Art Monthly’, Canberra, August 2001
Genocchio, B., Just circles, stripes and squares, ‘The Weekend Australian’, 21-22 July 2001
Mafe, D., Mourning Practice, ‘Eyeline’, no. 38, Summer 1998-99, Brisbane
Helmrich,M., Gaze of the Abyss: The Work of Judith Wright, Another Landscape: Life/History/Language, Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, 1998
Smith, S., Space in which to breathe ‘The Courier Mai’, Brisbane, 22 Aug. 1998
Walker, M.B., Wonder: coupling Art with Sexual Difference, Veil, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1998
Larner, B & Considine, F., A Complementary Caste: a homage to women Artists in Queensland Past and Present, Centre Gallery, Gold Coast, 1998
Snelling, M., Forward, Veil, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1998
Devenport, R., Fire and Life (part Two), from home to home, ‘Asialink’,1997, Melbourne
Bromfield, D., Digital Blindness and the end of painting: Judith Wright at Galerie Dusseldorf, Germany
Davenport, R., Calcutta to Brisbane from home to home, ‘Eyeline’, no.34, Spring 1997
Ferrier, E., Veil, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1998
Mafe, D., Abstracted Stagings, Veil, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1998
Hart, D., Temple of Earth Memories, Essential Elements. Australian Perspecta, Sydney 1997
Jackson, B., Echo mute to ear unbending locating the tympanum in the work of Judith Wright ‘Eyeline’, Brisbane, no.34, Spring 1997
Jackson, B., Rhythm of Memory, Magazine space, Griffith Artworks, 1997
Ferrier, E., Fire and Life (part One). Judith Wright, ‘Asialink’,1996, Melbourne.
Ferrier, E., The Language of Silence, Two Hands, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, 1996
Ramachandran, M., Why Some Lines Can Never Meet, ‘The Asian Age’, Calcutta, 25 Oct. 1996
Mafe, D., Positions on Stage, Sevenness, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1995
Morrell, T., Australia: Familiar and Strange, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea, 1996
Helmrich, M., Out of exile and into the 90s, An Exotic Otherness - crossing Brisbane Lines, CAST, 1994
Helmrich, M.,The Dead Also Dream, Silence Echoes in the Hollow of the Hand, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, 1993
Rainbird, S., Judith Wright: Unfamiliar Territory, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1992 Helmrich, M., The skin of memory, Veil, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Mafe, D., Silent Speech, Breath of Silence, Gallery Finarte, Nagoya, 1994
Mafe, D., Shaded Site, Silence Echoes in the Hollow of the Hand, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, Japan, 1993
Kirker, A., In Search of a Symbolic Language, Art Monthly, Sydney, June 1991
Lim L., Projections for Eliza, Projections for Eliza, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1991
McIntyre, A., Contemporary Australian Collage and its Origins, Craftsmen House, Roseville, 1990
Kirker, A.,Judith Wright, Australian Perspecta, 1989, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Lynn, E.,Giving Bliss a Miss, ‘Weekend Australian’, Sydney 19 Dec. 1989
Lynn, E., The Individual in Perspective, 'Weekend Australian', Sydney 19 Dec. 1989, Weekend Australian, Sydney, 19 December, 1989
