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Wendy Catling is an Australian artist whose work focuses on relationships, memory, abuses of power and intergenerational trauma. She completed her MA - Photography degree at Photography Studies College during 2019-20. She worked as a textile designer, stage manager, theatre administrator and sound and lighting operator while living in London from 1987 to 2001. Wendy has been a teacher of art and photography since 2001. Her works have been shown in the USA and Australia and are in collections at Warrnambool Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia and in private collections. She lives with her sound designer, film maker partner on Wurundjeri country in the outer suburbs of Naarm (Melbourne) surrounded by bushland reserves.

CONTACT: wendy@ettamodern.com


  • MA Photography - Photography Studies College, Melbourne
  • Post Graduate Certificate of Education - Greenwich University, London
  • BA Fine Art - Monash University, Melbourne

Exhibitions:
Singapore International Photography Festival, 2024
New Photobooks from Australia, V&A Museum, London, 2024
Dear Neighbour, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Ringwood, 2023-24
Speculative Horizons, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait, 2023
Nightshade, Alternating Current, Windsor, Vic, Australia, 2020
Hard Light, Ballarat International Foto Bienale, Vic, Australia, 2015  
Light Sensitive, (Group show) Art Intersection, Arizona, USA, 2015

Publication:
En un pais de madres (cover image), A M Homes, 2024, Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona.
Enough is Enough, 2023, (Eds) McInnes, V & Fraser, S, Perimeter Editions & Art+Australia, Melbourne.
Nightshade, 2022, Catling W, (design: Kim Mumm Hansen) M.33, Melbourne.
Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice, 2019, Anderson C Z, Routledge, New York.
Cyanotype: L’Art et La Technique, 2023, Anderson, C Z, Paris, France.

Awards:
2024 Shortlisted for Singapore International Photography Festival photobook awards
2024 Honorable Mention Australian-New Zealand Photobook Awards
2021 Finalist in Zart National Teacher-Artist Awards
2021 Finalist in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto Award

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