Judy Holding is a Melbourne based artist who has been practising for over twenty-five years. In 1977 she completed a Diploma of Fine Art [Painting] at Monash University. Since 1979, Judy has consistently travelled to the Northern Territory to observe and document indigenous ritual practices, social structures and spiritual beliefs. Her abiding interest in the landscape and people continues to inform her work.

Holding has developed a sensual language of colour and symbols - a repertoire of shapes and signs for trees, hills, bottles, guns, rock art, burial platforms, dogs, birds, lightning, mining markers, anthills, clouds, lakebeds, spears, lotus lilies, stars, fire and universal female forms, that are repeated and reconfigured in suites of paintings, drawings, cut outs and three dimensional objects. Shapes and contours coupled with Holding's use of loaded colour emphasis the underlying energy of the prevailing atmosphere. Her works are about feeling the energy of place; the distance and relation between places; and communicating the underlying force that exists within ancient Australian landscape
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