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b. 1966 -

JUDY WOODBORNE - 1966, born in Cape Town, South Africa

Born in Cape Town 1966. She obtained her B.A.F.A from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1988 and an advanced Diploma in Printmaking awarded with Distinction in 1989. Woodborne completed her B.A. with a practical music credit playing flute. She studied the flute for 15 years completing her Royal Schools and UNISA curriculum studying with teachers such as Gudrun Winkler, Fleuris Coetzee (UCT), and the late Lucien Grujon (UCT). She was awarded her Masters of Fine Arts Degree with Distinction from the University of Cape Town in 1993 with a dissertation entitled Moria, a Eulogy of Folly. Woodborne was the resident artist and administrator of Hard Ground Printmakers' Workshop from 1993 until its closure in 2005. She has travelled and visited many printmaking workshops in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Austria and has travelled as far south as Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula, crossing the infamous Drake's Passage in an icebreaker. She travelled to Hong Kong and mainland China, where she was part of a group training in Yang Style Tai' Chi Chuan, with Master Au Rong Ju in Foshan, Guandong Province. Her recent series of paintings "The Elements" are inspired by her journeys in the East, Zanzibar and a recent boat trip to Namibia.

Woodborne has spent some time working in various printmaking workshops such as the Grafische Werkstatt im Traklhaus, as well as taking part in collaborative printmaking portfolios with artist/curator Jan Jordaan, working on the Break the Silence HIV Campaign, as well as the Art for Humanity, Woman Artists supporting Childrens' Rights Campaign. Other projects include the Playing Card Portfolio curated by Veerle Rooms, Belgium in collaboration with the Playing Card Museum, Kasterlee, the Body Politic portfolio of colour etchings produced in collaboration with Prof. Teresa Cole, Tulane University, USA, and funded by the Foundation for the Creative Arts (1996). Woodborne was selected as the ABSA Klein Karoo Kunsfees Festival Artist in 2007. She produced a highly unusual exhibition of paintings on gold-leaf entitled The Garden of Eden. She recently curated and published a portfolio of 16 etchings, The Exquisite Corpse, based on the theme of Adam and Eve, in collaboration with 7 participating artists. The portfolio was sponsored by Sanlam, and selected for the Klein Karoo Kunsfees 2009. Her recent portfolio The Tarot Card Portfolio was launched at the South African Print Gallery in September 2012.