Judith Wright

Judith Wright (born 1945) in Meanjin (Brisbane) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking and assemblage.

Her work explores universal human experiences of loss, impermanence and vulnerability. before beginning her visual arts practice in the 1970s. 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. 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