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Watson, Judy und Louise Martin-Chew: judy watson blood language, Miegunyah Press, Darlton 2009, ISBN 9780522856583

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Book Review

Table of Contents

Prologue -13-

Water -20-

Skin -44-

Poison -84-

Dust and Blood -116-

Ochre -144-

Bones -168-

Driftnet -194-

Epilogue -223-

Notes -230-

Bibliography -233-

Index of Artworks -235-

Cover Text

Judy Watson is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Her art explores territory that includes the dispossessed Indigenous Australians with whom she shares a family history and heritage. Judy Watson’s art is intense and sublime in its physicality. Blood Language is a beautifully illustrated pictorial exploration of some of Judy Watson’s seminal canvases, works on paper, sculptural projects and artist’s books. Judy Watson imparts the artist’s ideas and writer Louse Martin-Chew gives another insight into the artist’s practice. Water, skin, poison, dust and blood, ochre, bones and driftnet are defining themes in an empathetic art that seeks to find a broader geography of belonging. Watson creates highly sophisticated works of beauty that are subtly political and intensely personal.