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The Fabric of Fantasy

Jenny Watson: &#;The Fabric of Fantasy&#;
5 July-2 October

Jenny Watson: &#;The Fabric of Fantasy&#; is the most comprehensive exhibition of the work by leading Australian artist Jenny Watson. Curated by Anna Davis, the survey brings together more than paintings, prints and drawings and encompassing over 45 years of Watson’s practice.

Intertwining autobiography and fiction, Watson’s work features a recurring cast of characters, self-portraits and alter egos that appear in everyday settings and dreamlike scenarios. Many are painted on collected fabric during the artist’s travels and include found objects and collaged materials such as horsehair, ribbons, buttons and sequins.

The relationship between text and image is central to the artist’s paintings. In her early works, language fragments are often added into a singular composition, while manyof her more recent paintings include a separate panel of handpainted text alongside a larger image.

Initially working from photographs in a realistic style, Watson became motivated by her encounters with feminism and punk in the ’s, turning to her immediate and inner life for inspiration and beginning to develop the spontaneous style of painting she continues to work in today. This was a time when much of th

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Jenny Watson

By Laura Couttie

 | April 26,

Jenny Watson is renowned for her style of post-conceptual painting, which combines whimsical images on fabric with panels of text. She modestly describes her forty five-year career as ‘a Melbourne girl makes good story’, but the journey is far from over. Artist Profile spoke to her about the art world, the female perspective and the human condition.

Watson spoke to Laura Couttie in Issue 45 of Artist Profile.

Jenny, you grew up in suburban Melbourne and you have spoken about how that experience hugely influenced your practice. Now you split your time between rural Queensland and Europe. What motivated you to pursue opportunities overseas?
As a graduate in the s I felt that I was at the end of the world and certainly some foray had to be made overseas to feel you were a part of something.

You have been exhibiting overseas for twenty-eight years now. What have you learnt about yourself as a person and an artist from that experience?
I had my first show in Frankfurt in That was a case of perfect timing. I was certainly ready, and mature enough, to take on the world, and the world seemed ready to take on an unknown Australian woman. It was a huge learning curve. You may be a fairly well-known Australi