2018 RECIPIENT OF THE GEORGES MORA FELLOWSHIP

Jude Walton's work spans site-specific, installation, and screen-based practice. She has directed solo and group works in art galleries and specific sites in major cities across Australia and overseas. Her practice is at the edge of the ephemeral and the material, in which the performances create visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic environments that invite experiential, embodied responses from the viewer.

Recent practice has focused on the process of 'response-to-site' initially developed during a CultureLab residency at the Meat Market, North Melbourne with Structural Adjustments (2007) and continued with Lehte // (2015) at Heide Museum of Modern Art, and The Drill Hall Project (2017/18) at the Drill Hall, CBD Melbourne. All are concerned with the formulation of new discourses around the intersections of spatial practice, live bodies, sound and installation. In 2010 a list of positive things for later when things may not be so positive, a collaboration with Aleks Danko, was presented in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens, as part of DUETTO, Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF), Adelaide.

In 2009 she was resident artist at the International Centre for Fine Arts Research, London as part of the 'From Scratch' festival at The Drawing Room, Tannery Arts, London exploring the legacy of British composer Cornelius Cardew.

As part of her Fellowship project Jude presented a highly successful activated installation and performance 'Nadja-Léona' at the Alliance Francaise in Melbourne.  Her project, based on the book Nadja by André Breton, focused on female muses and artists that were part of the early Surrealist movement in Paris. Jude continues her social and political artistic process with her new project, Muses.

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