WENDY SHARPE AM (@wendysharpe) featured on Episode 12 of the podcast ‘Australian Women Artists’, hosted by Richard Graham – LINK HERE
Australian women artists have been (and continue to be) underrepresented and undervalued in this country despite the stunning artistic works that have been produced since the mid nineteenth century. This podcast will shine a light on those artists and their spectacular art works. I’ll be talking to the artists themselves, both established and emerging, as well as experts on Australian women artists in history.
Blurb from Episode 12:
‘There can be no dispute that Wendy Sharpe is one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists.
She is known for her strong figurative paintings, her use of narrative and a sensuous use of paint. (For my benefit – and maybe others as well – figurative art, according to the Tate Gallery in London, describes any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure.)
Wendy’s accolades and awards are incredibly impressive: she has won the Sulman Prize, the Archibald Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Award (twice), the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize…in fact, she’s been a finalist for the Archibald Prize eight times and the Sulman Prize an astonishing thirteen times.
She has held over 70 solo exhibitions around Australia and internationally. She’s been awarded many international artist residencies including Paris (twice), Egypt, The Arctic, Antarctica (twice), Mexico, China, Ethiopia.
But it’s the breadth of her contributions to the arts and humanity that are just as fascinating for me, we explored those in our conversation.’
