Full Circle, is the most personal show Judy’s to date.

The title borrows from the Japanese concept of Sunyata and the meditative Enso circle — an emptying out, a return to origins. Over the past two years, Judy found herself moving through quiet contemplation and back out into renewed energy — the push pull of sadness and joy, advance and retreat.

Grounding all of it is the South Coast itself — the escarpment and sacred mountains nearby gave her a sense of solidity, the shorebirds an ethereal lift, while the early-summer bushfires became their own symbol of force and regeneration. Deep into her practice, Judy found herself returning to the gestural mark-making and calligraphic sweeps of her earliest work — lyrical abstraction, rediscovered and set loose with fresh freedom.

As Judy puts it: “…the arc has now formed into the full circle. There is a sense of arrival and acceptance.”