'water under the bridge tumamun' is a moving image piece comprising of overlays of Watson’s artworks and research including maps, objects, images and text that combines our shared histories.

Judy Watson is an internationally recognised, prolific artist based in Brisbane, with work held in public collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, the British Museum and the Library of Congress in Washington DC. In Brisbane her public works are in front of Gallery of Modern Art on Southbank, and in Brisbane’s CBD.

Her public artwork often connects to water and the Brisbane River and its significance to early Aboriginal life and cultures.

Artwork curated by Blaklash Creative.

Judy Watson’s artist statement: 

moving water
tracing time
the black holes in our education
unknown to me when I grew up here
we are told
get over our history
it’s water under the bridge
move on
leave the past behind
stones
dropping into water slowly
a punctuation
a breathing space
the river is scarified
it runs with the blood of memory
we are here
listening

Hear Judy discuss the work with Museum and Contemporary Art.