CURRICULUM VITAE

Wendy is a practising artist who has completed an Advanced Diploma of Fine Art at the Sydney Gallery School, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at College of Fine Arts.

Wendy has been a consultant for Matisse Derivan acrylic paints since 2000. She currently teaches Painting in Acrylics at Sydney Community College, where she has taught since 2002. She has also taught some book art classes at Artwise (The Amazing Paper Shop) in Newtown and a series of bookmaking and sketching classes in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Exhibitions History

The Paginated Garden April 2011
Artbound Gallery Red Glebe 2010
SCU Acquisitive Artist’s Book Award NEXT Gallery  August 2008
The Howard Years ATVP Gallery November 2007
Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize Don’t Look Gallery  September 2007
SCU Acquisitive Artist’s Book Award NEXT Gallery  August 2007
Southern Cross University, Lismore Australian Bookbinders Exhibition Art Gallery of NSW    July – Sept 2007
He knows when you are Sleeping Global Gallery December 2006
COFA Annual Graduating Students' COFA December 2006
Amnesty Human Rights 2006 Exhibition TAP Gallery September 2006
ADFAS Scholarship Finalists Exhibition COFA Gallery September 2004
Paris Residency Finalists Exhibition See St Gallery February 2005
Drawing Group Exhibition See St Gallery November 2004
XYZ Group Exhibition Muse Gallery October 2004
Meadowbank College Association Acquisitive Art Award Exhibition
See St Gallery August 2004
Launch Group Exhibition See St Gallery May 2004
Simply Black & White Group Exhibition Two Step Gallery November 2003
Meadowbank College Association Acquisitive Art Award Exhibition October 2003
Never Been Seen Group Exhibition December 2002
Meadowbank College Association Acquisitive Art Award Exhibition 2002

Awards/Prizes
Southern Cross University Acquisitive Art Prize 2008
Finalist - ADFAS Scholarship 2005
Finalist - Sydney Gallery School Paris Residency 2004
Meadowbank College Association Acquisitive Art Award (Runner-up) 2003
for book of collographs & digital prints.

Memberships
NAVA

Collections
Meadowbank College Association. Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, England, USA, Switzerland and Japan.

This is the sketchbook that was made and filled with drawings during the classes in the Botanic Gardens.