Judith Tucker (born 1960 in Bangor) is a British artist and academic. She completed a BA in Fine Arts at the Ruskin School of Art, St Anne's College, Oxford, (1978–81) an MA in Fine Arts (1997–98) and a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Leeds (1999–2002). Tucker is co-convenor of LAND2, a research network of artists associated with higher education who are concerned with radical approaches to landscape with a particular focus on memory, place and identity. She exhibits regularly in the UK and Europe. Between 2003 and 2006, Tucker was an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts.
Of her work she says “My practice explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and landscapes; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and scholarly writing.” Paintings and drawings by Tucker have been exhibited in ‘Landscape During Times of Uncertainty’ at Southampton City Art Gallery (2015), ‘Drawn 2013’, Royal West of England Academy (2013), ‘Shadows Traces Undercurrents’ Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Centre for Art, Minneapolis, USA, (2012), ‘Arts and Geographies’, Musée des Moulages, Lyon, France, (2013) and ‘Postmemorial Landscapes’, Armory Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Her work has been acquired by the New Hall Collection of Women's Art, Cambridge, New College, Oxford, the Priseman Seabrook Collection, St Matthias Kolleg, Germany and Swindon Museum and Art Gallery in the UK.
Selected group exhibitions
Selected for Yantai Landscape Biennale, China[date?]
More In Common, Arts in Perpertuity Trust, London (2018) Getting Away, Arthouse1, London and Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (2018) Finalist in the Jackson's Open Painting Prize (2018) Outfalls, Groundwork Gallery, Gallery for Art and the Environment (2018) Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century Yantai Art Museum, Artall Gallery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing and the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, Tianjin. China (2017) Anything Goes? Contemporary British Painting: An Exhibition of Works by Members of Contemporary British Painting selected by Anna McNay, Bermondsey Art Project Space, London (2017) In the Open, Sheffield, SIA Art Space and Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, Curator and exhibitor (2017) Neverends: art, text and music in place at Muriel Barker Gallery, Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby culmination of 18 month Arts Council funded commission (2017) Contemporary British Painting Winter Exhibition, Marylebone, London (2016) An intervention to accompany “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment Université Libre de Bruxelles Projectfitties Discovery Centre, Cleethorpes, (2016) Summer Exhibition of Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Newport Isle of Wight (2016) Seeing Double: residency and exhibition of open-form poems by Harriet Tarlo and monochrome drawings by Judith Tucker, The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Tower (2015) ‘‘Landscape During Times of Uncertainty” Southampton City Art Gallery (2013) ‘‘Estuaries and Excavations” Abbey Walk Gallery, Lincolnshire (2013) ‘‘Drawn 2013” Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (2013) ‘‘Jewish Artists in Yorkshire” Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds (2013) ‘‘Art and Geography” Musée des Moulages, Lyon, France (2013) ‘‘Shadows Traces Undercurrents, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Centre for Art Minneapolis USA (2012) ‘‘Space, Place and Spectral Trace” BV Gallery Bristol (2011) ‘‘All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space” Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds (2010) ‘‘Revisiting the Beach” Exlibris Gallery, Fine Art Department, Newcastle University (2009) ‘‘Painting Lives” Mercer Gallery, Harrogate (2006)