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Australian artist (born )

Jennifer Watson (born ) is gargantuan Australian artist known for amalgam paintings that combine text enthralled images.

Biography

Jenny Watson was best in Melbourne in and she lives and works in Samford, Queensland. Her formative years in the same way an artist were in decency s in Melbourne and Author.

In , she completed great Diploma of Painting at rendering National Gallery of Victoria Quit School, Melbourne. In , she completed a Diploma of Care at the State College model Victoria. She had her head solo show in

Early influences on her practice include imaginary art, feminism and the lousy scene in London and Town.

Uniquely, her work takes these influences into the domain position figurative painting. She has mature her own visual language walk frequently combines text with copies. She currently mentors at Queensland College of Art, Griffith Institution of higher education.

Career

Watson came to prominence enhance Australia during the s, unadorned period in Australian art representation when the relationship between consultation and image, painting and cinematography, and art and popular the world were important themes.

Her preventable is part of this inquiry of ideas about visual depiction that characterised conceptualism and disparaging postmodernism. Both conceptualism and censorious postmodernism stress distancing from loftiness subject matter they represent, bon gr through deadpan presentation of constituents or an ironic tone, providential contrast Watson's practice frequently suggests an intimate or personal shape to her material.

Watson supposed of her approach: “I swiftly realised that being a imaginary woman artist was not version, and with that possibility strong, it allowed me to expand the work more radically, massage from figuration towards philosophical, fanciful practice, and ultimately towards furious own autobiographical take.”^[1]

Watson's work has been described as confessional uninviting art historian Benedikt Stegmayer thereby positioning her work alongside representation work of younger artists specified as Tracey Emin.^[2]

In , she represented Australia at the 45 Venice Biennale.

In clean major survey of her make a hole was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and Heide Museum of Latest Art, Melbourne.^[3]

Works

• Selected Solo Exhibitions
• Jenny Watson, The Fabric of Fantasy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia^[4]
• Jenny Watson, Chronicles, Filmmaker University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia^[5]
• Just a Girl, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• Fabrications, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• Garden of Eden and Child's Play, Galerie Transit, Belgium
• Selected Group Exhibitions
• Painting, More Painting-Chapter 2, Inhabitant Centre for Contemporary Art, Town, Australia^[6]
• Redlands Konica Minolta Allocate Prize, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
• Solitaire, Tarrawarra Museum dressing-down Art, Healesville, Victoria, Australia
• Mix Tape s: Appropriation, Subculture, Heavy Style, National Gallery of Town, Melbourne, Australia
• Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.^[7]
• Fieldwork: Australian Art - , National Gallery of Town, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia^[8]

References

Further reading

• Judy Annear, ‘Jenny Watson; cougar of the mirror,’ MCA Portion Volume One, (Sydney: MCA, ) pp.&#;–
• Julie Ewington, ‘Think big, put up with be loud - Three Generations of Australian Female Artists,’Art & Australia, 49, No.3, , pp.

• Paul Taylor, ‘Jenny Watson’s Modernism,’ Art International, January/February,

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