Jenny Watson

Australian | 1951

Jenny Watson is an Australian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1951. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Bendigo Art Gallery have featured Jenny Watson's work in the past.Jenny Watson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 39 USD to 20,868 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 20,868 USD for Flowers, sold at Shapiro Auctioneers in 2020. Jenny Watson has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for College Art Association in June 2025.

At Auction

Notable Lots

MY FATHER'S MUSIC ,1987

By Jenny Watson

Flowers ,1989

By Jenny Watson

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ANGEL

By Jenny Watson

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Recent Auction Results

Self Portrait ,2007

By Jenny Watson

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Death of a Horse 1990 lithograph - Jenny Watson

Death of a Horse 1990 lithograph ,1990

By Jenny Watson

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IM NOT SPEAKING TO MY BROTHER (1991) - Jenny Watson

IM NOT SPEAKING TO MY BROTHER (1991) ,1991

By Jenny Watson

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Current Exhibitions

Winter 2025

Annette Larkin Fine Art

Paddington | Sydney | Australia

May 28,2025 - Jul 19,2025

The Intelligence of Painting

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)

Sydney | Australia

Mar 07,2025 - Jul 20,2025

Past Exhibitions

Jenny Watson: A little bit of everything I do

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Sydney | Australia

Apr 11,2025 - May 10,2025

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Articles

College Art Association 05/06/2025

Several important exhibitions of works by women and femme-identifying artists are being presented across the globe this summer.

ArtDaily 25/03/2025

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) presents an exhibition program celebrating the breadth and diversity of contemporary Australian art.

ArtDaily 16/12/2024

Listen now to the first Australian edition of Katy Hessel鈥檚 Museums without Men audio tour, and a new season of the Artists鈥� Artists podcast.

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Coverage

鈥� .. Jenny Watson鈥檚 recent paintings are of girls: different girls in different situations... 鈥�
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

鈥� ..These girls are partly Watson鈥檚 alter ego, her childhood self, and partly about people in general... 鈥�
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

鈥� ..Watson describes the three paintings as taking place in 鈥榥on-specific spaces鈥� or fantasy worlds... 鈥�
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

鈥� ..Watson seems to look at the world through the eyes of a child, albeit a knowing or precocious child, and perhaps this is the quality we, as viewers, identify with because somehow her works make you feel... 鈥�
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

鈥� ..It will trace Watson鈥檚 efforts to construct a practice and a persona that allows a critical negotiation of the experience of being here, there and everywhere... 鈥�
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The Ian Potter Museum of Art