Jenny Watson 1951

Woont in Brisbane. Werkt in Brisbane.

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Galerie Transit

Door haar gebruik van zelfportretten plaatst Watson zichzelf in alledaagse situaties. Hoewel haar doeken in de loop der jaren een minimale stijl hebben gekregen, blijven ze beladen met betekenis. Ze heeft altijd ironie en ontroering gecombineerd om haar standpunt te illustreren, soms dreigend en soms weemoedig.
Daarvoor heeft dit werk veel te veel lagen; een innerlijke spanning die de toeschouwer psychologisch in zijn greep houdt en hem ontwapenend bevraagt... Even overtuigend is de episodische voorstelling van de figuren, die weliswaar onafhankelijk zijn, maar deel uitmaken van een reeks gebeurtenissen die samen een autonoom geheel vormen. De monumentaliteit van de beelden wordt gecounterd door de anekdotalisme van de tekst. Het beeld als statisch element en de tekst als handeling, als ritueel in een symmetrische interactie. Woord en beeld als in een spiegel en beide als spiegel in de kijker. [Jan Hoet]

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Jenny Watson had her first exhibition at Chapman Powell Street Gallery Melbourne in 1973 and lived in London, Paris and New York for different periods between 1975–79.
Watson has taken a number of stylistic approaches to her painting, incorporating language and text and a range of different materials and fabrics, such as velvet and collaged elements. Her subject matter has always tended towards the autobiographical. After her 1976–77 Houses series, in which she painted her childhood homes, Watson moved from the exterior world to the interior world with her 1981 work Dream Palette. Based on her dream journal, Watson assembled images and texts on 36 small canvas boards.
Watson has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Chronicles, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane (2016); Birds, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2014); Here, There, and Everywhere, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2012); Layerings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2012); Other Lives, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2012); Striped Paintings and Undercover, Gimpel Fils, London (2011); Five Paintings about a Mobile Phone, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (2011); Jenny Watson, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium (2010); Material Evidence: Jenny Watson, Works on Fabric 1981–2005, Kunstverein Rosenheim (2009); American Idyll, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium (2009); Walking the Dog, Malkasten, Düsseldorf (2008); and Star Material, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2007).
Selected group exhibitions include Solitaire, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria (2014); Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); PICA Salon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth (2011); We Call Them Pirates Out Here, MCA, Sydney (2010); The Brisbane Sound, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008); and the National Artist’s Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland, Brisbane (2007).
Watson’s work is held in major state and regional galleries in Australia and in a number of overseas collections, including Yokohama Museum, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan; Ulmer Museum, Germany; and Vienna Academy of Arts and Craft, Vienna.

1951 Born in Melbourne, Australia
1972 Diploma of Painting, National Gallery of Victoria Art School
1973 Diploma of Education, State College of Victoria, Melbourne
2002 – now Adjunct Professor, QCA, Griffith University

Solo Exhibitions

2018
Peripheral Vision, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

2017
Jenny Watson: The Fabric of Fantasy (touring), Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Heide Musuem of Modern Art, Melbourne
Other Lives, Galerie Straihammer and Seidenschwann, Vienna, Austria
Buffaloes, Gangurinn/ The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland

2016
Just a Girl, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Chronicles, QCA Gallery, Brisbane

2015
Fabrications, Anna Schwartz Gallery

2014
Birds, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Garden of Eden and Child’s Play, Galerie Transit, Belgium
I woke up in France, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide

2012

Here, There and Everywhere, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, Australia,18 January- 8 April 2012 + catalogue
Text-Bild-Konzepte. Milovan Markovic, Pavel Pepperstein, Viktor Pivovarov, Jenny Watson, Stadtgalerie Mannheim ,Germany, 03.02- 25.03.2012+ catalogue
“other lives”, 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, October 3 – 22

2011
Striped Paintings and Undercover – Gimpel Fils, London (UK)
Jenny Watson – Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA

2010
The Daisy Show – Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Jenny Watson / Fia Cielen, CIAP Hasselt, Belgium

2009
American Idyll, Galerie Transit, Mechelen
Material Evidence, Kunsthalle Rosenheim
Kunsthalle Krems, artist in residence & exhibition

2006
‘Vintage Paintings’, Transit Mechelen

2005
Material Evidence: Jenny Watson Works on Fabric 1981 – 2005, Queensland College of Art Griffith University, Queensland
Child’s Play Paintings, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf
2004
Child’s Play II, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Angels, Mrs Peel, Maybelline and a Long Night of the Soul, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2003
Made in Perth, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Jewels, Anna Schwartz Gallery & Margaret Moore, Perth
Doll House, IASKA, Kellerberrin, Western Australia
2002
Jenny Watson: Girls, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
2001
ARCO, Madrid (Anna Schwartz Gallery), Spain
Australian Artist in a Bar in New York in the Year 2016, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Bolgna Art Fair, Giordano Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
Shrinksville, Galerie Transit, Belgium
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2000
Shelf life, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Wild East, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998
The Play Room & Buffaloes, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne & University of Hanoi, College of Fine Arts
Mothership, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Dina Carola, Naples, Italy
Achim Kubinski, Berlin, Germany
The Seven Ages of a Playboy Bunny, Gimpel Fils, London, UK,
1997
The Bear Facts, Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
Mothership, Giordano Raffaeli, Trento, Italy
1996
Marburger University Museum, Germany
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Made in Europe, Ulmer Museum, Germany
Rosenheim farm, Rosenheim Kunstverein, Rosenheim, Germany
Gramency Park Paintings, Manus Presse, Stuttgart, Germany
Gaby Kranshaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
History / Hysterie, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Minimalism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria
Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Manus Presse, Stuttgart, Germany
Ludwigforum for Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland
1994
Prints, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Australian Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Italy
Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Von Witzleben, Karlsruhe, Germany
Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1992
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Roberta Lietti Arte Contemporanea, Como, Italy
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1991
Black Wholes, City Gallery, Melbourne
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1990
Pleasures and Memories, Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany
1989
Fables, Pastoral and Present, City Gallery, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane
1988
City Gallery, Melbourne
1987
The Mad Room, City Gallery, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane
1986
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1985
University Gallery, The University of Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1984
Art Projects, Melbourne
1983
Art Projects, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1982
Art Projects, Melbourne
1981
Q Space Annex, Brisbane Art Projects, Melbourne
1980
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Q Space Annex, Brisbane
Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
David Reid Gallery, Sydney
1978
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1977
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1975
Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1974
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1973
Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

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