BIOGRAPHY DR JUDITH DUQUEMIN

Judith Duquemin was born in Brisbane, in the state of Queensland, Australia, where she currently lives and works. Following an early career in the life sciences, she relocated to Sydney to complete a BVA Hons (1995), an MVA Research (2000), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Art (2004) at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.  Indicating an interest in the psychology of making, her doctoral thesis argued within a philosophy of action that volition should be considered an action of painting. Significant awards include an Australian Postgraduate Award (2001–2004) and the University of Sydney Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Travel Artist Scholarship (2004). Between 2005 and 2018, Duquemin traveled extensively between Australia, Europe, and the United States to conduct artist research at residencies and commercial studios to include the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Artspace Australia, the Briggait, Scotland, Sincresis, Italy, Great Western Studios, United Kingdom, and various self-funded residencies located throughout France, Spain, and Germany. Duquemin has staged over twenty-eight solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, United Kingdom and the USA. She appeared in the 2012 international art documentary "Lignes et Paysages", produced by 60 Degrees Productions, France. In 2015, Duquemin exhibited with and wrote for British systems group Saturation Point of London. In 2017, she was commissioned to create paintings for a large-scale digital facade graphic for the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. A first retrospective of her work was staged in her hometown at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (QLD) in 2019. In the same year, she became an associate member of the Art Research Center (ARC) in Kansas City, USA. In 2021 Duquemin appeared as a guest artist for the "Covimetry Virtual Online Panel," directed by Mark Starel, founder of the Polish Discursive Geometry movement, and hosted by the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was later commissioned to write the essay “Aperiodic Pattern and Artistic Knowledge” for the text "Discursive Geometry and More", edited by Wieslaw Łuczaj (Mark Starel), and published by the Goldenmark Center in 2022. From 2023, Duquemin has participated in the "ARC Group 55th Anniversary Virtual Exhibition" at Konstruktiv.ist, co-curated and produced by T. Michael Stephens and Erdem Küçükköroğlu. Recent group exhibitions include "Splitting the Square," Galerie Abstrait Projects, Paris; "White Circle," Saturation Point Projects, London; and "This is the Future of Non-Objective Art," Atlantic Gallery, New York. As a concrete, structural, systematic painter within the field of contemporary geometric abstraction, Duquemin maintains a cross-disciplinary, research-based approach to practice that focuses on areas of contemporary science pertaining to arts continuing role in the study of human perception in the 21^st century.

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