Jenny Watson
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Exhibition
Jenny Watson: Paintings with veils and false tails
In 1993, for the first time, a single female artist, Jenny Watson, was chosen to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. A year later ACCA exhibited the 15 paintings, half on velvet, half on taffeta, that were show in Venice, representing Watson’s recent engagement with memory...
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Exhibition
Jenny Watson: The Woman, The Bottle, The House, The Horse
One of several in ACCA’s Wallpaper series, this exhibition brought together new and older works by Jenny Watson that illustrated her preoccupation with a lexicon of personal imagery reminiscent of diarist fragments. “The body of work is structured around a search for the space...
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Exhibition
Jenny Watson: Paintings on Velvet
An exhibition of works by Jenny Watson who trained at the National Gallery School and the State College of Victoria, Melbourne. She had recently been awarded the gold medal at the 6th Indian Triennial.Publication...
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Exhibition
Image Codes
Makos, Phillip le Masurier, John Matthews, Shane McGowan, Kathy McKinnon, Robert Pierce, Rosslynd Piggott, Randelli (Robert Randall and Frank Bendinelli), Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Bruce Slorach, Robyn Stacey, Tra Fashion Video, Peter Tully, Ania Walwicz, Jenny Watson, Katsu Yoshinda, Fashion ‘84...
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Exhibition
Visual Tension
Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young...
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Exhibition
Paul Taylor Memorial
LeWitt, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jenny Watson
In the Press
21 September, The Age, Paul...
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Exhibition
Off the Wall / In the Air: A Seventies Collection
Silverman, Guy Stuart, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Tony Tuckson, Ken Unsworth, Ruth Waller, Jenny Watson, John Wolseley
Publication...
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Podcast
A World Of One’s Own: Wild Thing — Jenny Watson
Wild Thing: A conversation with artist Jenny Watson.
What does it mean to be an 'Aussie Artist'?
What is wildness and how do we allow it space to thrive?
Tai and Jenny share their love of horses and the freedoms they offer to us as young girls whilst taking a close look at the Australian...
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Publication
Jenny Watson: The Woman, The Bottle, The House, The Horse
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1994
...1994 was another busy year for ACCA with a chockablock program of exhibitions, talks, screenings and panels. ACCA was proud to present Jenny Watson: Painting with veils and false tails, the first single female artist representation of Australia at the 1993 Venice...
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Podcast
Defining Moments: Popism by Judy Annear
...and the artists (Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk), provide some background and context to the ideas and practices...
Podcast
Defining Moments: Popism by Judy Annear
...and the artists (Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk), provide some background and context to the ideas and practices...
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Rewind: Paul Taylor
...drawn between them finally gave conservative critics something to sink their teeth into. Through his writing, editing, publishing, curating and his social energy he formed a circle which included artists as diverse in their practice as John Nixon and Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Jenny Watson and Maria...
Video
Defining Moments: POPISM with Judy Annear
Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk), provide some background and context to the ideas and practices, and the evolution of Taylor’s thinking and working. I will trace this through Taylor’s...
Program
Defining Moments: Popism at the National Gallery of Victoria 1982
...the exhibition and the artists (Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk), provide some background and context to the ideas...
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Events
DATE: 22 March 1994 Sadie Benning and Andy Warhol program LECTURE: ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Art of Jenny Watson...
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Rewind: Image Codes, Art about Fashion: The FDC and the ‘Precocious Polemics of Fashion’
Matthews, Shane McGowan, Kathy McKinnon, Robert Pearce, Rosslynd Piggott, Randelli (Robert Randall and Frank Bendinelli), Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Bruce Slorach, Robyn Stacey, Tra Fashion Video, Peter Tully, Ania Walwicz and Jenny Watson, amongst others.Pearce’s brief to the participating...
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Program
A world of One’s Own
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11. Wild Thing — artist Jenny Watson
What does it mean...
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Art History: Where are all the women artists?
...in 1982, alongside another artist, Peter Booth), and a further 11 years until a major solo exhibition by a woman artist was presented at the Australian Pavilion (Jenny Watson, 1993).[6] Significantly, the three most recent exhibitions at the Australian...
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Rewind: Visual Tension
...dismissing Jenny Watson’s work as ‘scribble’ and incorrectly identifying the magazine as subsidised.
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Tai Snaith: A World of One’s Own
...artist Jenny Watson
What does it mean to be an 'Aussie Artist'? What is wildness and how do we allow it space to thrive? Tai and Jenny share their love of horses and the freedoms they offer to us as young girls whilst taking a close look...