WENDY MCDONALD SELECT CV 2025

Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts (Ed), Deakin University

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Select Solo Exhibitions

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2024  Stars, Night Herons and the Politics of Envy, Defiance Gallery                                                                                            

2023  Sky Water Season, Boom Gallery
2022  Little Forest and Other Places, AK Bellinger Gallery
2021  Witness, Boom Gallery
2021  Special Release, AK Bellinger Gallery
2020  New Works, AK Bellinger Gallery
2019  Quietly, Koskela Gallery, Sydney
2019  History and Geography, Works from pollack swamp, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2018  And So it Goes, AK Bellinger Gallery
2016  This Place, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2010  Landscapes from the Murray Darling, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

Select Group Exhibitions, Prizes & Residencies

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2024   Summer Salon Group Exhibition, Defiance Gallery                                                                                                          

2024   Nock Foundation Residency, Queenstown NZ                                                                                                                

2024   Winter 24 Group Artists, Defiance Gallery                                                                                                                         

2023   Summer Group Artists, Defiance Gallery.                                                                                                                        

2022   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery
2022   Recipient, Defiance Nock Art Foundation Residency Prize, Paddington Art Prize                                                                

2021   Textile collaboration, Nancybird Design                                                                                             

2020   TWIG Residency, Noorong for The ACRE Project, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery                                                          

2020   Floodplain, Group Exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2019   Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Permanent Collection, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2018   Finalist, The NSW Parliament Plein Air Paintimg Prize, Parliament House, Sydney                                                          

2018   A Painted landscape”, Special Group Studios, Sydney
2018   Regional Women’s Exhibition”, Southern Buoy Studios
2017   Finalist, The NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, Parliament House, Sydney                                                            

2016   Finalist, The NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, Parliament House, Sydney                                                                

2015   Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery                                                                                                      

2011   Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery                                                                                                       

2010   SW Arts “Terrain” Exhibition, Griffith Regional Art Gallery                                                                                                

2010   Terrain” Exhibition, Cube 37 Gallery, Frankston                                                                                         

2010   Art in the Port, Echuca
2009   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney
2009   Finalist, Country Energy Landscape Prize, Lismore Regional Art Gallery                                                                       

2009   Art Sydney
2009   South West Arts Showcase Exhibition
2009   Finalist, Calleen Art award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery                                                                                                   

2008   Artist, SW Arts “Muster Moments” sculpture project
2008   Recipient, Regional Arts NSW professional development "Quicks" grant                                                                                

2008   Finalist, National Print and Drawing Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery                                                         

2008   FOUR travelling exhibition, Robinvale and Kerang
2008   FOUR group exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2008   Finalist, Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery

 

Bibliography

2024  Galah: Stories of Life Outside the City, by Annabelle Hickson, Murdoch Press                                                              

2022  Galah Magazine, Issue 5, Water
2018   A Painted Landscape, by Amber Creswell Bell, pub Thames and Hudson                                                                       

2016  Australian Country Style Magazine, March issue
2009  Paddington Art Prize Lecture, Joe Frost

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Collections

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

The free but considered mark making by Wendy McDonald in her paintings and drawings reinterpret a country she knows so well. Billabongs, dry lakes, creeks and rivers, redgum and box country, sandhills, forests and farms. This is the home and workplace for McDonald. Her discerning and insightful eye bring an authority to the work that can only come by someone deeply invested in this landscape."

Ian Tully, Director Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

"Artists of all types are our most talented communicators. Claude Monet’s impressionistic paintings of waterlilies remain one of the world’s most powerful wetland imagines. Instantly recognisable his images cross all social and cultural borders and speak to us all individually.

Full appreciation comes through an intimate knowledge of the subject. The wetlands of the Central Murray Region are complex in ecological structure and seasonal variations. Capturing these natural subtleties and differences as Wendy does so skilfully gives an intimate and unique view, improving our appreciation and understanding of these precious and iconic wetlands."

Dan Hutton, Environmental Consultant 2020