I'm a visual artist interested in the histories and connections to river environments.

Drawing and exploring on waterscapes within the Murray Darling and venturing afar to the regions of Eastern Australia (and beyond) has allowed me an arts practice where the studio is often outdoors, or at least to begin with. The work then moves between the inland rivers and back into my studio in Brisbane taking on the forms of drawings, prints, artist books and drawing animations.

I am currently co producer of Yimbaya Maranoa Arts Collective based on the Maranoa River Queensland. It's here where a group of First Nations and non-Indigenous artists, writers, weavers and musicians gather and camp each year- we are all drawn to the sand based river, the artesian waters that flow beneath and the sites that have a close connection to the stories we need to share and to understand ourselves. The collective acknowledge the Gunggari and neighbouring Bidjara Mandandanji Kooma Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the Maranoa Region.

Collections
  • The Kedumba Collection · Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
  • Griffith Artworks · Griffith University
  • State Library of Queensland
  • Mackay Regional Gallery QLD
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Jude Taggart Roberts
On the Wallam Creek where I lived for 21 years Image Credit Donna Malone
Exhibition history
2025
Something WildWoolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane · with Clare Purser · 1–31 October
2025
Libris AwardsArtspace Mackay
2023–25
The Painted RiverLethbridge Landscape Award finalist, Redland Art Gallery · Moree
2021
outLANDAlexandra Lawson Gallery, Toowoomba · with Tarn McLean · 7–31 May
2021
DRAWNRedland Art Gallery
2019–21
These Central BodiesAlexandra Lawson Gallery, Toowoomba
2019–21
SatellitesAlexandra Lawson Gallery, Toowoomba
2020
Barrier DrawingsFloat Residency
2019
Chain of PondsBlindside, Melbourne · with Helen Hardess
2017
House ConspiracyWest End, Brisbane
2016–20
2015
Drawing the ArtesianWhite Box and Project Gallery, Griffith University Southbank, Brisbane · 16–30 July
2015
BimbleboxBimblebox Nature Refuge
2015
Body PoliticIcebox Project Space, The Crane Art Centre, Philadelphia · 8–20 January
2015
Casting BodyDrawing International Brisbane
2014–15
Mythscapes in the Watery RealmSchool of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University, Wales · and Project Gallery, Griffith University
2014
AquiferThe Crane Art Centre, Philadelphia · 13 March – 6 April
2013
Unraveling the MaranoaMitchell on Maranoa Gallery · 19 April – 31 May
2013
One River ProjectsBelconnen Arts Centre, Canberra · 2013
2013
Document BimbleboxSawtooth ARI, Launceston · 25–27 April
2013
Kedumba Drawing AwardWild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls, NSW · 27 October – 30 November
2012–14
Marie Ellis Drawing PrizeJugglers Art Space, Brisbane
2012
In a LandscapeRaygun Lab Project Space, Toowoomba · 21–26 September
Jude Taggart Roberts

Acknowledging the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters where I work and live and pay respects to the Elders past present and emerging.