Judy Holding’s work reflects on her travels to the Northern Territory where she has, for over 30 years, observed and documented indigenous people and their relationship to the natural landscape.  Her long experience in the monsoonal escarpment country of the Kakadu region informs her sensual visual language of colours and symbols, repeated and reconfigured through a variety of mediums including printmaking, collage, painting and sculpture.  Evocative interpretations of the infinite aspects of this landscape come from a repertoire of shapes and signs for trees, hills, bottles, guns, burial platforms, birds, lightning, stars and fire.  Judy’s artistic practice exhibits her understanding of, and relationship to, the essence of the land, the prevailing atmosphere and the indigenous elders she has befriended.  

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 Sei Stagioni della 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 public collections throughout Australia and the United States.