jenny-watson

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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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...
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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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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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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Paul Taylor Memorial

LeWitt, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jenny Watson In the Press 21 September, The Age, Paul...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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A world of One’s Own

...nbsp; 11. Wild Thing — artist Jenny Watson What does it mean...
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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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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. [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode...
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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...
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A Conversation with Jenepher Duncan

Danko’s What are you doing boy? and other exhibitions by Jenny Watson, Janet Burchill, Robert MacPherson, Terri Bird and Fiona MacDonald were presented during that first year, which also included the Monash/ACCA partnership survey exhibition, Off the Wall/In the Air...