ARTIST BIO

WENDY BLACK
EDUCATION
1975 Diploma of Fine Art, Painting, RMIT
2007 Masters of Art, RMIT
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Show Woollahra, Sydney
Finalist, Rick Amor Print Prize Montsalvat, Eltham
Finalist, Gippsland Print Prize Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Finalist, John Glover Prize, Evandale, Tasmania
2014 Honorable Mention, Paul Guest Drawing Prize Bendigo Art Gallery
Speak Out, Moreland Summer Show Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Blueprint, Studio 23A artists Brunswick Art Space
2013 Got the Message? 50 years of political posters Art Gallery Ballarat
Finalist, Flanagan Prize StPatricks, Ballarat
69fifteen, 15 year anniversary show 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
In the Public Interest, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Current Tendencies Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2012 Highly Commended, John Glover Prize Evandale, Tasmania

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2010 Nanker Phelge, painting, drawing, prints, 69SmithStreet Gallery, Fitzroy
2007 3 minute attention span, drawing, Cusp Gallery, Northcote
2006 Survey show1986-2006, screenprints Civic Centre, Ivanhoe
Recollection of Italian Places, paintings & drawings, Cusp Gallery, Northcote
2004 Seadragons of the Southern Kelp, screenprints Cusp Gallery, Northcote
Making Poster History- 30 years of printmaking, Cusp Gallery, Northcote
Still Life, screenprints, Cusp Gallery, Northcote
2003 Coast 2, painting & screenprints, Cusp Gallery, Northcote
2002 Coast, painting, 4cats Gallery, Abbotsford
1999 What colour is your voice? 3 actors acting, portraits, Melb Arts Club, Nth Melb
1998 The Grainger/Roxburgh portraits, paintings, Kino Cinemas, Melbourne.
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
2014 Pardalote, Wren, Painting Commissions, Melbourne Dental Suite
2012 Tennison Woods, Painting Commission, Diocese of Bathurst
2010 Bathurst Triptych, Painting Commission, Diocese of Bathurst
2008 10 Metre Platform, Drawing installation, 600 Bourke place, Melbourne
Sea Horse, Video projection, 20 Walker st, Dandenong
Yosemite, Painting Commission, Shibata Dental, East Camberwell

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Mayhew, L: Imprint September edition; 4 Women’s Poster Collectives.
Woollahra small sculpture prize catalogue
John Glover Prize catalogue
2013 Wallis, G: Got the Message? 50 years of political posters, catalogue.

COLLECTIONS
NGA, Art Gallery NSW, Powerhouse Museum, Performing Arts Museum, Art Gallery Ballarat, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Port Phillip, Moreland & Portland City Councils, University Tasmania, Corporate & Private Collections. The Wendy Black Poster Collection is held in the State Library of Victoria.