Judy Darragh OMZN is a prolific artist and activist living in Tāmaki Makaurau. She uses found objects to create sculptural assemblages. Utlising domestic objects, industrial offcuts or safety equipment her work is a golden shrine of irony, bringing high and low, art and craft together in unholy matrimony.

Alongside her sculptural work Judy also supports collectivism and questions process and practice in our creative institutions. In 1992 Darragh was one of eight artists who founded the artist-run space Teststrip in Auckland. She then went on to start Cuckoo, an artist-run project based in Auckland that was described as 'the artist-run space without a space' with four other artists in 2000. In 2020 Judy was a founder of Art Makers Aotearoa to champion the arts during the Covid rebuild, and also in the 2020 Queens Birthday Honours, Judy was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts. Judy is also instrumental in advocating for the implementation of artist resale royalty in Aotearoa through Equity for Artists.

Judy Darragh is represented by Two Rooms Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.