Judy King

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26 Nov 2024

A true story of triumph over trauma

A true story of triumph over trauma
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Judy King is a survivor, and so much more. Born into a dysfunctional family in Sydney’s leafy North Shore, she grew up in a post-war era, where etiquette and social mores were all-important, and what went on behind closed doors was nobody’s business.

But there were plenty of people who had an inkling, and along the way of Judy’s traumatic suffering at the hands of her mother, father and extended clan, there are moments of such kindness so as to sustain her innocent spirit.

The repression of things too hard to bear causes internal scars and Judy (or rather ‘Agnes’) loses the ability to think c...

9 Apr 2023

From the Pacific to the Mediterranean

From the Pacific to the Mediterranean
Photo credit: Pilar Pellicer, Ultima Hora, Spain, 9 April 2023

Judy King, potter, sculptor and writer, arrived in the bohemian village of Deià in the 1970s and, with the occasional sojourn, maintained an ongoing love affair with the island

With a strong clear gaze, wrists resting on the arms of a weathered armchair, Judy King shows no inch of pride when recounting her life story. She hardly raises an eyebrow when I confess my admiration for her adventures. With a clear mind, this explorer of life’s torments holds more tales than the Great Library of Alexandria.

She has travelled the world à la Phileas Fogg, hobnobbed with artistic royalty and written a b...

27 Jul 2024

Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien

Judy came to take an interest in the process of writing in her late forties, dallying for a brief time in what the Irish writer, Edna O´Brien, called: ¨the little words¨. In the late nineteen eighties Edna, by chance, came to live in an apartment in Judy´s house in Deia Mallorca. They developed a friendship and Judy ended up working for the author as a researcher on a book she wrote while living there, called The High Road. Sadly, Edna passed away aged 93 on the 27th July 2024. Her defiance in challenging the bigotry, particularly against women, in her native Ireland, and her courage in bravel...