Digital Public Art Commission: ‘water under the bridge’ by Judy Watson

Howard Smith Wharves, 5 Boundary Street, Brisbane Thursday, April 29, 2021, 6 – 11:30pm Brisbane City Council has an extensive public art collection of approximately 500 diverse objects, ranging from large-scale, contemporary sculpture to integrated bespoke elements located throughout the city and surrounding suburbs. For the first time Council has commissioned digital, site-specific, artworks for the city’s public art collection by four leading and emerging local, female artists and shown at Council’s newest Outdoor Gallery location at Howard Smith Wharves. This is the first time all four artworks are on display to the public. These four artworks are: Judy Watson artwork, ‘water under the bridge tumamun’, curated by Blaklash Projects Jenna Lee’s artwork ‘Breathing Spaces’, curated by Blaklash Projects Hailey Atkins artwork, ‘Whither Weather’, curated by Alex Holt and Sarah Thomson Phoebe Paradise artwork, ‘Subtropical Surreal’, curated by Alex Holt and Sarah Thomson About the artist: Judy Watson is an internationally recognised, prolific artist based in Brisbane, with work held in public collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, the British Museum and the Library of Congress in Washington DC. In Brisbane her public works are in front of Gallery of Modern Art on Southbank, and in Brisbane’s CBD. Her public artwork often connects to water and the Brisbane River and its significance to early Aboriginal life and cultures. About the artwork:'water under the bridge tumamun' is a moving image piece comprising of overlays of Watson’s artworks and research including maps, objects, images and text that combines our shared histories. Judy Watson artist statement: moving water tracing time the black holes in our education unknown to me when I grew up here we are told get over our history it’s water under the bridge move on leave the past behind stones dropping into water slowly a punctuation a breathing space the river is scarified it runs with the blood of memory we are here listening Hear Judy discuss the work with Museum and Contemporary Art. Event type: Art, Free Cost: Free Bookings: No bookings required. Bookings required: No