JENNY WATSON

b. 1951, Melbourne.

Lives and works in Queensland.

Jenny Watson was born in 1951 in Melbourne, Australia. She completed her Diploma of Painting, National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne, Australia (1972) and Diploma of Education, State College of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (1973). From 1978-1984 she was a Partner in Art Projects, Melbourne, (Artist run space). Since 2002 Jenny has been an Adjunct Professor, Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University, Australia.

She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally in countries including London, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Japan, Canada, UK, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and India. In 1993 Jenny represented Australia at the 45th Venice Biennale, Italy.

Collections include Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Artbank, Sydney; Australian Embassy, Washington; Australian Law Courts, Melbourne; Vienna Academy of Arts and Craft, Vienna, Austria; Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. Jenny currently lives and works in Queensland, Australia.

"For 25 years my work has been concerned with possible relationships between text and image in a conceptual/minimal installation dialogue. I tend to work with selected fabrics of standard width that are then put aside until an appropriate image is found. These fabrics are usually standard dress fabric widths, and the length is cut to be roughly analogous to my height. These fabrics are sometimes stretched or left unstretched. I do self portraits, images of horses, highly subjective images based on memory that are then put with a text. The images are painted sparely for maximum effect. Sometimes horeshair, buttons, images from magazines are applied to the surface. The text could be snatches of dialogue from a film or a list of some personal significance. The text can be humorous, deadpan, highly emotional, found etc. One is left uncertain whether the text relates to the image. It is the dialogue between these random aspects of everyday life that I am interested in. In this way a space opens up between the text and the image."

- Jenny Watson, Artist Statement

ARTIST INFORMATION

BIOGRAPHY

1951	Born in Melbourne, Australia
1972	Diploma of Painting, National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne, Australia
1973	Diploma of Education, State College of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1978-84	Partner in Art Projects, Melbourne, (Artist run space)
2002	Adjunct Professor, Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University, Australia
Teaching
1973-86	Education Department + Tertiary Colleges – Australia
1988-89	Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1996	Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1997-2000	Various Lectures, External Assessor and Teaching Sessions at Sydney College of the Arts, RMIT and VCA
2000-01	QCA, Griffith University, Morningside/Gold Coast Campuses
2002	Adjunct Professor, QCA,Griffith University, Southbank/Gold Coast Campuses

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011	Five paintings about a mobile phone, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2010	The Daisy Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Jenny Watson, CIAP, Belgium
2009	Material Evidence, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany Opq- Project Show, The Factory, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2008	Undercover, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Galerie Axel Holm, Ulm Germany Walking the dog, Malkasten, Dusseldorf
2007	Illusionations, Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva, Switzerland Star Material, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006	Vintage Paintings and New Watercolours, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium Paris Fashion Week, Peloton Galleries, Sydney Cool World, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia Works made in Sri Lanka, Anna Schwarz Gallery, Melbourne
2005	Material Evidence, DELL Gallery, QCA, Brisbane
2004	Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003	IASKA, Kellerberrin, Perth, Australia Child’s Play, Yokohama Musem of Art, Yokohama, Japan Hatano Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002	Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia gimpel fils ltd, London, UK
2001	Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Kelowna Art Museum, B.C. Canada Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
2000	Galerie Achim Kubinski, Berlin, Germany Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1999	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998	gimpel fils ltd, London, UK Dina Carolla, Naples, Italy Hanoi College of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1997	Universitätsmuseum, Marburg, Germany Studio d’arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996	Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany manus presse, Stuttgart, Germany Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1995	Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Galerie Janine Mautsch, Köln, Germany Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria
1994	Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1993	Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Galerie Janine Mautsch, Köln, Germany Galerie Roberta Lietti, Como, Italy 45th Biennale of Venice, Australian Pavilion, Italy Galerie von Witzleben, Karlsruhe, Germany Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria
1992	Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1991	Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria Meppener Kunstkreis, Meppen, Germany City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1990	Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011	India Art Summit (Greenaway Art Gallery stand), New Delhi, India
2010	We Call Them Pirates Out Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Melbourne / Brisbane: punk, art and after, The Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne
2009	Avoiding Myth and Message: Australian Artists and the Literary World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2008	Scope Basel (Greenaway Art Gallery stand), Switzerland The Brisbane Sound, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2007	National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2007, UQ, Brisbane Art Brussels 2007, Brussels, Belgium Art 38 Basel, with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Switzerland 2007 Milano Art Fair, with Giordano Raffaelli, Italy Innocence and Experience, Gimpel Fils, London Let Them Roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2006	The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2005	So You Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star, Paintings from the NGV Shell Collection, NGV touring exhibition 10/21 - VCA at the Venice Biennale, VCA, Melbourne Drawing Centre, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW Blur, Dell Gallery @ QCA, Brisbane The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Melbourne If the walls could talk, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Critical Mass, Transit Gallery, Belgium Gallery artists in new space, Giordano Raffaelli, Italy Castellón Painting Prize, Municipal Art Centre of Alcorcon, Madrid
2004	Parental Guidance Recommended, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium Fuoriluogo 9, una moderna babele, Pinacoteca Dinamica, Campobasso, Italy
2003	START, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Calvese, Italy
2001	parallel structures, David Pestorius project,Southbank, Brisbane Speilhoven Project, Belgium Group Show, Annina Nosei
2000	Spin Me Round, Metro Arts, Brisbane Mommy Dearest, gimpel fils ltd, London, UK
1999	Galerie Stalke, Copenhagen, Denmark Drawing + Object, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany Axel Holm Galerie, Ulm, Germany
1998	Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1997	Drawings, Annina Nosei, New York, USA Museum of San Marino, Italy The Book of Lies Project, Eugenia Butler, Los Angeles, USA Hotel on Fire, Kelowna Museum, Canada
1996	Andere Orte, various venues, Germany
1994	Works on paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York The human measure, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993-94	Confess and Conceal, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth National Gallery of Art, Singapore National Gallery of Art, Bangkok National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur Australian Centre, Manila Australian Embassy, Jakarta
1993	Prospect, Kunstverein Frankfurt + Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

AWARDS

2005	Fellowship, Visual Arts Board Project Grant, Arts Queensland
1999	Semifinalist, “Parque de la Memoria”, Sculpture Prize, Argentina
1997	Residency, Chemnitz, Germany July 1998 Deacons Graham & James award residency in Tokyo - January, February 1999 Residency, College of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam December 1997 - March 1998
1990	Portia Geach Art Prize
1987	Newcastle Art Prize (joint winner with Mike Parr)
1986	Gold Medal, Indian Triennale, Delhi
1984	Half Standard Grant, Visual Arts Board
1980	Grant to Individuals, Visual Arts Board
1979	Alliance Francaise Fellowship
1975	Georges' Prize (shared) Travel Grant, Visual Arts Board

COLLECTIONS

Armidale Art Gallery, Armidale NSW • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth • Artbank, Sydney • Australian Embassy, Washington, USA • Australian Law Courts, Melbourne • Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla • Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo • BHP Billiton • Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand • Gold Coast City Council, Queensland • Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt, Germany • Monash University, Clayton • Ghent Museum, Belgium • Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne • Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan • Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra • Queensland University, Brisbane • Ulmer Museum, Germany • University of Melbourne, Melbourne • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane • Vienna Academy of Arts and Craft, Vienna, Austria • Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia

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