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
Exhibitions:
2023
Speculative Horizons, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait
2021
Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto Award
2020 Nightshade, Alternating Current, Windsor, Vic, Australia
2015Hard Light, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Vic, Australia Light Sensitive, (Group show) Art Intersection, Arizona, USA
Awards:
2021 Finalist - Zart National Teacher Artist AwardFinalist - Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto Award
Publications:
Nightshade, 2022, Catling W, (design: Kim Mumm Hansen) M.33, Melbourne.
Enough is Enough, 2022, (Eds) McInnes, V & Fraser, S, Perimeter Editions & Art+Australia, Melbourne.
Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice, 2019, Anderson C Z, Routledge, New York.