exhibitions

sculpture and works on paper

13 February – 4 March 2014

about the exhibition

Judy Holding has established a strong identity as an artist through the development of a personal visual ‘vocabulary’ of symbolic forms. In particular, her beautifully realised depictions of trees and birds, through her sculptures and works on paper, reflect her abiding love of the diverse flora and fauna of Australia. Judy has said of working in the landscape, that the “most powerful lesson I have learned is not to look just with my eyes but to ‘look’ with my ears, fingers and nose, so that the experience involves all my senses.” Consequently, she imbues her work with a palpable sense of the timeless quality of these landscapes that others recognise and are inspired by. Trees and birds are universally recognised symbols thatJudy often reduces to their silhouettes, painted in jewel-like colours, overlapping and interacting with each other in the construction of a very individual artistic lexicon. Much of the motivation for her recent work is also drawn from her increasing concern with environmental issues affecting our natural world; “Genetic modification, industrial agriculture, global warming, fracking etc etc. It is becoming increasingly obvious just how much the fragility of natural systems and the interconnectedness of species is being ignored.”

Judy Holding is a Melbourne-based artist who has been practising for over thirty years. In 1977, she completed her Diploma of Fine Art at Monash University and since then has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Australia. In 2002, she exhibited in Le SeiStagionidella Terra Australiana at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy and in 2004 was a finalist in the Montalto Sculpture Prize and the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award. Her work is represented in collections throughout Australia including Artbank, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Benalla Regional Gallery and Shepparton Regional Gallery.

exhibition images

  • 1. $5,500 Pardelotes in the Mallee – watercolour on paper, 38 x 140cm

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  • 2. $1,900 Zebra finch – watercolour and collage on paper, 19 x 65cm

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  • 3. $1,900 Hoopoe – watercolour and collage on paper, 19 x 65cm

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  • 4. $1,500 Smallblue Mallee – painted corten steel, rusted steel base, edition 6 of 25, 32 x 20 x 10cm

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  • 5. $4,200 Snowgeese over the Mallee – watercolour and collage on paper, 33 x 100cm

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  • 6. $2,800 Pardelotes – watercolour on paper, 57 x 38cm

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  • 7. $2,200 Crows – watercolour on paper, 38 x 38cm

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  • 8. $2,200 Pardelotes and wrens – watercolour on paper, 38 x 38cm

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  • 9. $3,600 Bindi birds – painted cut paper collage and bindis on Nepali lokta paper, 76 x 50cm

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  • 10. $1,200 Lake Boort – Tree Toa series, found stick, waxed and burnt, laser cut MDF, polymer clay, paint, wall mounted, 114 x 32 x 9cm

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  • 11. $1,900 Darwin – Tree Toa series, 2pac auto paint, bronze, aluminium wire, laser cut MDF, polymer clay, wall mounted, 146 x 44 x 4cm

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  • 12. $1,900 H & H – Tree Toa series, 2pac auto paint, MDF, cast bronze, polymer clay, wire, wall mounted, 120 x 30 x 3cm

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  • 13. $1,200 Cannon Hill NT – Tree Toa series, painted MDF, polymer clay, wire, laser cut MDF, wall mounted, 113 x 30 x 40cm

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  • 14. $1,900 Jabiru NT – Tree Toa series, 2pac auto paint, MDF, cast bronze, polymer clay, wire, wall mounted, 115 x 56 x 10cm

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  • 15. $850 Barkers Creek I – Tree Toa series, found branch, waxed, found gumnut, paint, laser cut MDF, wall mounted, 114 x 35 x 8cm

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  • 16. $850 Wren in the Goldfields – found branch, cast bronze, polymer clay, gold leaf, wall mounted, 78 x 24 x 10cm

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  • 17. $5,700 Connections – cut paper and paint on Nepali lokta paper, 134 x 64cm

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  • 18. $2,800 Blue Gum – gum branches, paint, rusted corten base, 84 x 58 x 10cm

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  • 19. $4,500 Red birds – cut paper collage on Nepali lokta paper, 152 x 98cm (unframed)

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  • 20. $4,500 Evening birds – cut paper collage on Nepali lokta paper, 152 x 98cm (unframed)

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  • 21. $1,600 Drowned tree in the lake – burnt sticks, polymer clay, steel, mirror, 37 x 23 x 28cm

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  • 22. $2,200 Dry Mallee – corten steel, powdercoated steel base, edition 2 of 15, 60 x 40 x 20cm

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  • 23. $1,900 Snow geese and eagles – watercolour on paper, 22 x 57cm

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  • 24. $1,900 Birds of the high Himalayas – watercolour on paper, 22 x 57cm

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  • 25. $5,800 Secret GM Eucalypt II – powdercoated aluminium, MDF, gold leaf, lego, found objects, wall mounted, 156 x 105 x 2cm (variable)

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  • 26. $3,800 Rainy day birds – watercolour on paper, 76 x 56cm

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  • 27. $2,200 Tall blue Mallee – painted corten steel, rusted steel base, edition 1 of 15, 60 x 40 x 20cm

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  • 28. $2,200 Mallee Pardelotes – watercolour on paper, 38 x 38cm

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  • 29. $1,900 Snow geese I – watercolour on paper, 22 x 57cm

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  • 30. $1,200 Specimen gully I – Tree Toa series, found branch, burnt and waxed, gold leaf, paint, cast bronze, wall mounted, 120 x 28 x 8cm

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  • 31. $4,500 Wrens and Pardelotes at the waterhole – cut paper collage on Nepali lokta paper, 152 x 98cm (unframed)

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