About

Judy explores the notion that every landscape is layered with history and personal connections. The materials she uses in her collages are gleaned from her archive of maps of places she has visited, collected ephemera, discarded books and family stuff including her great grandfather’s religious writings. By ripping them up and including them in her work, she imbues her favourite and imagined landscapes with a layer of her own connections and history. Judy lives and works in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

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EXHBITIIONS — GROUP SHOWS
2024 Above & Below, Shop Gallery, Glebe
2023 Outside In, Shop Gallery, Glebe
2022 Laerk Christmas Exhibition, Laerk Gallery, Newtown
2022 Laerk Group Exhibition, Laerk Gallery, Newtown
2003 New Works, Studio Show, Lindfield
2001 Collusion, Graduating Painters, Meadowbank TAFE, Newspace, Rozelle
1992 Get Lost, an exhibition by Groak, The Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
1992 Artists at the Green Door, Newtown
1991 Swine Before Pearls, an exhibition by Groak, Arthouse Gallery, Darlinghurst
1990 Groak, inaugural group show by Groak (with Virginia Ross, Pepi Weinrauch and Annabel Nowlan)
10 Taylor St Gallery Darlinghurst
1989 Judith Denby, Colin Grant and Tobias Richardson, EMR Studios, Redfern
1988 Studio Show, EMR Studios, Redfern
1988 Homeshow II, EMR Studios, Redfern
1988 Homeshow I, EMR Studios, Redfern
1988 Capita Fine Arts Grant Finalists Exhibition, The Cell Block, Darlinghurst

EDUCATION
2001 Advanced Creative Fine Arts Training Program, Meadowbank TAFE
1995 Graduate Diploma in Design, UTS
1987 Higher Art Certificate, National Art School
1980 Jewellery Design, Randwick TAFE
1979 Jewellery Trade, Sydney TAFE