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Judy Rabinowitz Price is a London-based artist, filmmaker and researcher working across photography, moving image, sound and installation. Her research-led practice explores the intersections of landscape, memory, social justice and ecology, often through long-term engagement with sites of political and social significance and the communities connected to them.
Rather than treating landscape as a backdrop, she approaches place as a living archive in which political, ecological and personal histories converge. From the limestone quarries of the occupied West Bank and the former site of HMP Holloway to current research on ecological restoration, incarceration, care and more-than-human worlds, her work considers how landscapes bear witness to violence, resilience and repair.
Drawing on archival images and sounds, networks, collaborations and activism, Price is interested in how art can reveal the multiple histories and shifting boundaries of these sites, while engaging with collective struggles and the resilience of those who inhabit and endure them.
Palestine was an enduring focus of her work between 2004 and 2017, resulting in two major bodies of work: Within This Narrow Strip of Land (2008) and Quarries of Wandering Form (2017). Her film White Oil (2017), which has been exhibited and screened internationally, explores limestone quarrying in the occupied West Bank, unfolding narratives of colonialism, land expropriation and mobility through the everyday lives of quarry owners, workers and security guards. She was awarded a practice-based PhD from the University for the Creative Arts in 2014 for her thesis White Oil, Excavations and the Disappearance of the West Bank, and the long-form film White Oil, which examines the political, material and spatial conditions surrounding quarrying in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
More recently, Price has been developing two long-term research projects. The End of the Sentence explores the impact of the UK criminal justice system on women through the prism of HMP Holloway, foregrounding questions of gender, class, race and economy while reflecting on Holloway’s spatial and ideological legacy as a site of both remembrance and absence. Architecture of the Bush examines the spatial politics and ecology of relationships between human and non-human life in and around Kruger National Park in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Her work has been shown internationally. Solo exhibitions include Stanley Picker Gallery, London; The Mosaic Rooms, London; Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; Wingsford Arts, Suffolk; Stiftelsen 3,14 and USF Centre, Bergen, Norway.
Group exhibitions and screenings include: Am Flutgraben 3, Berlin, Wonder Cabinet, Bethlehem, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, Qattan foundation, Ramallah, Palestinian Film Week, Cinema Akil, Dubai, Delfina Foundation, Imperial War Museum, Barbican, Curzon Cinema Soho, Curzon Cinema Goldsmiths, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, City Hall, Purcell Rooms at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Tatton Biennale, Manchester, Cambridge Film festival and SIEMENS Part B2 VVI 23, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Kunshaus, Cinema, Nürnberg, Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Khalil Sakakini Cultural, Centre, Birzeit University Museum, Riwaq, Centre for Architectural Conservation Ramallah, Campus in Camps, Dheisheh Refugee Camp and Dar Annadwa Cultural Centre, Bethlehem and Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem amongst others.
She is currently Post Graduate Research Coordinator in the Department of Film and Photography and the Co-Director of SIME (Sound/Image/Media/Encounters Research Group) at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University where she also teaches on the MA Photography program.
She was course leader and founder of MA Photography, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University (2014-2022); Senior Lecturer, Moving Image (BA), University of Brighton (2010-23); Guest Professor, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg (2013); Cocheme Fellow and Associate Artist, University of the Arts, London (2008-2010); Visiting Lecturer, International Academy of Art, Palestine (2008–2014) where she initiated a series of student exchange programs between Palestine and UK institutions (The International Academy of Art Palestine was one of the key projects for the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art (PACA), established in 2004 which continued until 2017 led by a group of Palestinian artists); Associate Professor, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, Norway (2007-2008).
Price has also mentored artists working with digital media on the Electric Green House residency, B3 Media and been lead artist on numerous digital photography educational projects, including, Photoworks, Tate Modern, Southwark Somali Refugee Council, Deesha Community, Toynbee Hall and Shacklewell Primary School, London, commissioned by HS Projects and Insight Community Arts Programme (ICAP).