This year, the QAGOMA Foundation Appeal invites support for the acquisition of leading Australian artist Jenny Watson’s extraordinary Private views and rear visions 2021–22, as seen in ‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ at QAG in 2022–23. This major work comprises 48 individual paintings executed on the printer’s proofs of the exhibition catalogue for Watson’s 2016 exhibition ‘Chronicles’ at Griffith University Art Museum.

Stacked along a vast wall of the gallery, the work’s scale alludes to fresco paintings, with each frame holding an individual scene. These pictures are taken from Watson’s personal recollections, ranging from treasured familial interactions to daydreams and unexceptional everyday occurrences. Horses and lone women are hallmarks of the artist’s practice, and within the various scenes across Private views and rear visions they provide a sense of rhythm by reappearing in different guises.

With flashes of distant memories and glimpses of recent events writ large in Private views and rear visions, Watson conveys the way that emotion, memory and humour inform the way we experience the tempo of life.

Your support will help to bring this remarkable work by an internationally recognised Brisbane-based artist into the Gallery’s Collection.

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