About

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Wendy has been fascinated by early photographic printing processes since her first studies in photography.  

She relishes the opportunity to exercise ‘hands-on’ control of every aspect of the image formation, from choosing and treating the paper to developing and manipulating the emerging image, combined with the challenge of deciding which antique process best suits which subject.  

She is happy to combine modern technology and discoveries with older approaches.  So her images may have been captured digitally, or taken with infrared or pinhole cameras, before printing in an older technique. She will utilise advances in chemical knowledge to adapt early printing processes.

No consistent theme underlies the subject matters of her work. However, reflecting on her oeuvre so far, it consists more in capturing intriguing detail than in broad vistas, and much of it deals with the play of light on manmade and natural objects. Currently working in the following processes :-Platinum/palladium; Lumen printing; Cyanotype; Van Dyke; Gum bichromate  and Chrysotype.

Photo ©David Tatnall

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Education

  • Certificate IV in assessment & Workplace training  2003

  • Graduate Diploma Arts (Media) – Photography 1990

  • Diploma Arts (Art) – photography 1989

Major Commissions

Cumberland Resort and Conference centre – Lorne – colour, black & white, Van dyke process in foyers, restaurant, bar, seminar rooms and other public areas.

University of Melbourne Alumnifest – colour and alternative photographic processes. Further commissions from the Faculty of Law – images on material and other colour work.

Collections

  • State Library of Victoria – Picture Collection

  • IPT – Institute of Photographic Technology

  • Private collections

  • State libraries of Victoria, South Australia, Queensland & New South Wales. Also, The Getty Museum & Library of Congress  – The Spirit of Australia, the Land and the people.

Published in

2005 – Diversity – Institute of Photographic Technology – A celebration of the diversity of the photographic image

2006 -  Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I, Malin Fabbri, Lulu Press

2006 -  Blueprint to Cyanotypes – Exploring a historical alternative photographic process, Malin Fabbri, Lulu Press

2013 -  69 Fifteen 1998 – 2013 -  69 Smith Street Gallery Members images from gallery

2014 -  Photo compendium Australia by Mary Meyer

2015 -  InPrint – Is  - Celebrating alternative, experimental, and traditional photographic process and practice.  By Dawne Fahey

2018 – The Spirit of Australia, the land and the people, Craig Alan Huber.

2021 – Chrysotype, A Contemporary Guide to Photographic Printing in Gold. Leanne McPhee.  Routledge

2022 - Anthotype Emulsions, Volume 1 by Malin Fabbri

Exhibited

  • Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, Circles, Celebrating International Women’s Day & fundraiser for Turkey disaster

  • The Print Exposed, Gold Street Studios, Trentham East, March 2023

  • View Camera Australia, online exhibition June 2022

  • View Camera Australia, online exhibition February 2023

  • View Camera Australia, online exhibition December 2022

  • View Camera Australia, online exhibition September 2022

  • Alternative Photography celebrating World wide Anthotype day, online exhibition August 2022

  • Sutton Village Galleries - Sutton, New South Wales, Celebrating World Wide Cyanotype day 2022

  • View Camera Australia, online exhibition, October 2021

  • Lishui Photographic Festival - International Handmade Photography, Reflections & Innovations, China, 2021

  • Maud Street Gallery, Brisbane, Celebrating World wide Cyanotype Day 2021

  • Sutton Village Galleries – Sutton, New South Wales, Celebrating World Wide Cyanotype day 2021

  • Magnet Galleries – Melbourne, Still Living 2021

  • View Camera Australia, online exhibition 2021

  • View Camera Australia, Photograph Considered # 44 - online Magazine 2021

  • Brunswick Street Galleries, Friends of Photography Group, Group Chemistry,  2020

  • Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, Memento, A Bushfire relief fundraiser, 2019.

  • Brunswick Street Galleries, Friends of Photography Group, Group Chemistry,  2018

  • Photo Access, Canberra, The Spirit of Australia, the Land and the people, Alternative photography 2018

  • Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, No Lillies Women and Work, 7th annual fundraiser for UN Women & International Women’s Day 2017

  • Blanco Negro gallery, Sydney, Femininity and Memories – Travelling solo exhibition, 2016

  • Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, No Lillies Women and Work, 6th annual fundraiser for UN women & International Women’s Day 2016

  • Blanco Negro gallery, Sydney, InPrint-Is exhibition of all artists in the book (as above) 2016

  • Montsalvat, Eltham - Nillumbik Prize Finalists exhibition, 2015

  • Photonet Gallery, Fairfield - International Womens’ Exhibition 2015

  • Gold Street Studios, Trentham East, Femininity and Memories – Solo exhibition 2015

  • Photonet, Fairfield, the Well Spring, 2014

  • Photonet, Fairfield, Branch of Olive, 2012

  • PhotoAccess Gallery, Canberra Re-imaging the classic print 2010

  • Institute of Photo Technology, Melbourne 2010

  • Obscura Gallery, Re-Imaging the classic print 2010

  • PhotoSpace, Collingwood The Industrial Landscape  2009

  • Ballarat Foto Biennale, Trentham,  The Print Exposed 2009

  • Fawkner Gallery, Castlemaine, Group exhibition 2008

  • PhotoSpace Gallery, Collingwood, Different Takes, 2007

  • Workshops – Interstate, Regional Victoria and Melbourne