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Winning entry in the Dobell Prize for Drawing 2011
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Judell is inspired by Buddhist philosophy that regards phenomenal existence as ephemeral, impermanent and transitory. Her work is a process of evolution, bordering between abstraction, the conceptual and the figurative, yet we cannot pinion her style in any such categories. Nor can you ignore her palette, for she uses the blackest and palest of shades to bathe her work in luminous light and shadow. The effect is brooding and nebulous, yet meditative and, as John MacDonald might say, it is “zen”-inducing. ...more
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Last Exhibition 30th June 2011 MARS
All that is solid, melts into air
“… Judelll’s drawings appear like bolts of electricity, tiny ions of power and energy which are broken down into substance and then reapplied onto her paper or linen. The energy inherent in her work is endless but the fibers of paper, the dust and flakes of pastels and oil sticks, and the weave of the fabric all reconnect. The synapses fuse and a new opportunity for energy and matter is created within the airy space of her studio. These paintings and drawings are maps or models, a means of making sense of the unknowable and intangible. We get a sneak peak of what it might be like to be no more than an atom but with the full consciousness of a human. This is the joy of Judell’s work.”
Prue Gibson, The Rapture of Death, 2010, Boccalatte, Sydney, p.99
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