Ruth Watson (artist)

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Ruth Elizabeth Watson (born 1962), is a New Zealand artist currently living in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Education

Watson received a BFA in painting from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, in 1984, a MVA from Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney in 1999 and a PhD from the Australian National University in 2005. She also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies from the University of Canterbury in 2015.

Awards and honours

Residencies

Exhibitions

Watson has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in both New Zealand and Australia, with some exhibitions in Germany and the United States. She has worked in sculpture, photography, installation art and painting [2] and began working with cartographic imagery while an undergraduate in the early 1980s. Issues concerning the representation of the world have been a main focus of her work since that time. Her work has been included in several exhibitions and publications relating to art and cartography. Group exhibitions include the 9th Sydney Biennale The Boundary Rider (1992), Cultural Safety, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum Aachen (1995 / 1996), The World Over, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1996), Living Here Now: Art and Politics (1999), [3] Paradise Now, Asia Society Museum, New York (2004), Better Places at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2008), Unnerved: The New Zealand Project Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2010), [3] SCAPE Biennale of Public Art (2011), grenzūberschreitend/across boundaries, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen Germany (2018).

The same year, she collaborated with the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and created the largest map of the universe at that time. [4] She joined the staff of Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2006. In the summer of 2010-2011, Watson travelled to Antarctica as part of a science-based course run by Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury. She subsequently produced artworks based on her experiences. [5] She occasionally publishes writings on other artists' work. [6]

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References

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  6. "This day a man is | Colin McCahon 100". mccahonhouse.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-01-22.