JENNY WATSON

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.

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 1970s 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