Jenny Watson | 5 Drawings

28.09 – 26.10.2025

New exhibition reveals intimate core of Australian artist.
This fall, galerie Transit presents ‘5 Drawings,’ a compelling exhibition about Australian artist Jenny Watson. Five recent drawings serve as the backbone for a broader overview of her oeuvre. In dialogue with key works from her rich artistic past, a layered and personal exhibition unfolds about memory, identity, and imagination.
Jenny Watson (born 1951, Melbourne) achieved international fame with her direct, autobiographical work in which text, figuration, and use of materials converge in surprising ways. She is often linked to the feminist art movement and the punk culture of the 1970s and 1980s, but her practice continues to renew and deepen. In ‘5 Drawings,’ five new, understated drawings form a vulnerable and powerful axis along which earlier works are recast. The drawings—seemingly simple, yet imbued with emotional charge—shed new light on familiar themes in Watson’s oeuvre: the girl as alter ego, the horse as symbol, the tension between image and word.
The exhibition is conceived as a visual diary, in which past and present merge. Alongside paintings on linen and velvet, mixed-media installations, and textile elements, the ‘early’ and ‘late’ Jenny Watsons demonstrate how consistent yet dynamic her work has remained. With the five drawings as a starting point, we invite the visitor to rediscover Watson’s work—not through retrospective chronology, but through emotional resonance. It is an exhibition that dares to be still.

About Jenny Watson: Jenny Watson represented Australia at the 1993 Venice Biennale and her work is held in numerous museum collections worldwide, including the Queensland Art Gallery, Bunker collection NYC, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Her unique voice in contemporary art reflects a lifetime of observation, documentation, and imagination.

Exhibition period: September 28 – October 26, 2025
Location: Galerie Transit, Zandpoortvest 10, 2800 Mechelen
Opening: Sunday, September 28, 2:00 – 6:00 PM
www.transit.be – art@transit.be – +32 478 811 441 – +32 475 477 478

IMPORTANT: Drawings by Jenny Watson will be included in the new exhibition “GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion, and Growing Up” at MoMu Antwerp, September 27, 2025 – February 1, 2026