WENDY WADWORTH / Wilderness
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WENDY WADWORTH / Wilderness
10 – 28 July 2012
“I don’t copy nature exactly, or that which I see.
Instead I try to transmit my feelings, thoughts, or both to the onlooker, about what I sense when I look and listen. The land has its own language.
With these paintings I’m talking about pure wilderness and sometimes about signs of human existence, either hidden or imposed …”
– Wendy Wadworth 2012
Wendy Wadworth
Crossings (2012)
Oil on glass
600 x 450 mm
$ 2,200
Wendy Wadworth
Numbers (2012)
Oil on glass
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Night Water (2012)
Oil on glass
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Message (2012)
Oil on glass
300 x 420 mm
$ 1,600
Wendy Wadworth
Hidden (2012)
oil on glass
300 x 420 mm
$ 1,600
Wendy Wadworth
Enter (2012)
Oil on glass
600 x 450 mm
$ 2,200
Wendy Wadworth
Drifting (2012)
Oil on glass
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Drift (2012)
Oil on glass
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Division (2012)
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Distance (2012)
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Crossings (2012)
Oil on glass
600 x 450 mm
$ 2,200
Wendy Wadworth
Passing By (2012)
600 x 450 mm
$ 2,200
Wendy Wadworth
Saline (2012)
600 x 450 mm
$ 2,200
Wendy Wadworth
Whiteout (2012)
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Southern (2012)
250 x 200 mm
$ 850
Wendy Wadworth
Shift (2012)
300 x 420 mm
$ 1,600
Wendy Wadworth
Refuge (2012)
600 x 450 mm
$ 2,200
Artist Bio:
Born in Blenheim, New Zealand in 1954 and raised on a high country farm, Wendy Wadworth went on to study Graphic Design at Christchurch Technical Institute (now CPIT), graduating in 1974. Wadworth undertook further studies in painting under the private tutelage of several leading New Zealand artists. Her work is held in private collections in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, America and Yugoslavia and within the following public collections: Victoria University, Wellington; National Library, Wellington; the James Wallace Trust Collection, Auckland.
Wadworth’s inspiration has a number of sources. In the early 1980s she held a position at the Otago Early Settlers Museum where an excellent collection of early colonial paintings proved to be a great influence on her future work. Wadworth commenced painting full-time in 1983 and held her first exhibition that same year with the guidance and support of mentor and friend, Ralph Hotere. Visits to Australia in the mid-1990s to acquaint herself with Australian Colonial and Contemporary Art and to Europe in the late 1990s gave Wadworth access to a world of art she had previously known primarily from reproductions in art books. Such exposure had a formative influence. She visited Europe again in 2007, taking time particularly in France, Switzerland and the Balkans. The history of landscape painting and the physical landscapes, both here in New Zealand and those she has encountered abroad have partly motivated and informed Wadworth’s practice as an artist.
Since her first exhibition in 1983, Wadworth has showed on an annual basis in solo and group shows throughout New Zealand including at CoCA, Christchurch; Milford Galleries, Dunedin; John Leech Gallery, Auckland; and Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington. Wadworth was a finalist in the ‘Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award’ in 1995, and the ‘Waikato Art Award’ 2001. In addition to the walls of galleries and homes, Wadworth’s art has graced the pages of Government and University publications, art cook books, calendars, E. M. Caughey’s Art New Zealand Today (2002), Ian Baker and Vic Williams’ New Zealand Food, Wine and Art – A New Journey (2002); and Chris Ronayne’s Trevor Moffitt, A Biography (2006).
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