Wendy Grace is an artist living in Melbourne. Her practice centres on photography and painting creating works inspired by the natural landscape. The contours, textures and colours that reflect Nature's cycles of life and the process of growth and change from the foundations of her work. Wendy's fascination for the patterns of nature can be seen in her organic, abstract compositions of translucent paint on paper and canvas.
Wendy's work has been included in group, and individual exhibitions in commercial and regional galleries in Australia and her work selected as a finalist in national competitions and prizes. She attended RMIT University where she attained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Degree. Her work is represented on the Mornington Peninsula by Manyung Gallery Group where she currently has paintings on display.
EDUCATION
2007 Bachelor of Fine Art Honours, First Class, RMIT University
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) with Distinction RMIT University
2004 Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Feels like summer, Manyung Gallery Sorrento, Sorrento.
2018 Quiet Rhythms, Sinclair + May, Melbourne
2018 Paperbark tales, Walker St Gallery & Arts Centre, City of Dandenong
2017 Sense of Place, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2017 Sirenuse, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2016 Winters Song, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
2015 Soft Edges, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2014 Fluid Boundaries, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2014 Here & Now, Cambridge Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Memory Traces, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2012 Phantom Fields, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza Vic
2011 Hint of spring, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza Vic
2010 Cycles, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Water’s Edge, Louey & Lane, Melbourne
2008 Leaving it open, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Heading South, Bayside Council Corporate Centre, Melbourne
2007 Slipstream, first site RMIT Union Gallery Melbourne
AWARDS & PRIZES
2018 Art in Science, ACMD Art Prize, Finalist, St Vincent's Hospital Gallery; Melbourne
2018 Open Art Prize, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2017 Art in Science, ACMD Art Prize - Finalist, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
2017 Spiritual Art Prize, Recipient, Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne
2016 ANL Maritime Art Awards, Finalist, the Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Melbourne
2016 Art in Science, ACMD Art Prize - Finalist, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
2016 Space, Recipient, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2016 She, Finalist, Walker St Gallery & Arts Centre, Dandenong Vic
2014 Redland Art Awards Finalist, Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, QLD
2014 Waverley Art Prize, Finalist, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW
2014 She, Finalist, Walker St Gallery & Arts Centre, Dandenong, Vic
2014 Ficifolia Art Exhibition, Highly Commended, Drouin Community Chambers, Drouin VIC
2013 Outback Open Art Prize, Finalist Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 She, Finalist, Walker St Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong Vic
2012 Redland Art Awards Finalist, Redland Art Gallery, QLD
2012 St George Art Awards Finalist, Hurstville Museum and Gallery, NSW
2010 Outback Open Art Prize Finalist, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW
2010 City of Albany Art Prize Finalist, Albany WA
2008 The Money Myth Finalist, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Biennial Art Competition Finalist, Box Hill Community Art Centre Melbourne
2007 6o Art Prize, Human Landscape Finalist, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2004 1st Prize My Favorite Place Postcard Exhibition, Tivoli Artspace, Melbourne
2018 SMALL, fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Vic
2018 9 by 5 Exhibition, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong Vic
2018 Resident artists’ exhibition, Heritage Hill Museum, Dandenong Vic
2018 Rhythm of summer, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento & Flinders Vic
2017 9 by 5 Exhibition, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong Vic
2017 Land, Sea and Sky, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza Vic
2017 Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
2017 She, Walker St Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong Vic
2016 9 by 5 Exhibition, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong Vic
2016 Australia Wild Art Awards, Sherbrook Gallery, Belgrave, Vic.
2016 Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
2016 In Flux, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Manyung Gallery, Sorrento Vic
2015 Panoply Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2015 69 Smith St Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2015 Fusion Fine Arts, Subiaco WA
2015 On Paper, Manyung Gallery Mt.Eliza, Vic
2014 9 by 5, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
2014 Summer Sorbet, Fusion Fine Arts, Subiaco WA
2014 Colours of Spring, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
2014 Sustainable Living Festival, West Beach Bathers Pavilion, Melbourne
2013 Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza
2013 69fifteen, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
2013 In Bloom, Gallery eight, Sydney, NSW
2013 Creative Sustainability, Gallery St.Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
2013 Salon des Refusés, Bay of Fires Art Prize, TAS
2013 Vale St Studio Artist’s Exhibition, Vale St Studios Melbourne
2012 Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza & Sorrento Vic
2012 Open Studio, Vale St Studios, Melbourne
2012 Art Melbourne, Exhibition buildings, Melbourne
2012 Antipodes, Gallery Ranfurlie, Melbourne
2011 Small Works, Carbon Black Gallery Melbourne
2011 Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2011 New Paint, Subject Matter Art Space, Melbourne
2011 Vale Street Studio Artists, the Gallery St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
2011 Seek, Level 17 Art space, Victoria University, Melbourne
2011 Medium Vinyl, Hardware Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2011 Autumnal Equinox – Photographic Exhibition, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
2010 A little bit of summer, Breathing Colours Gallery, Sydney
2010 Belle Arti, Chapman & Bailey Art Award, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2010 Black & White, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Medium Vinyl, Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2010 Launch 3, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009 The Collectors’ Exhibition, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2009 Pinhole, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Coffs Harbour Postcard Show, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2008 Botanica 08, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne,
2008 Things @ Kings, King Street gallery, Melbourne,
2008 B&W shades of grey, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Déjà vu, Gardner Galleries, Melbourne,
2008 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
2007 Unusual Contexts, Area Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2007 Works of paper, Imp Exhibition Space, Melbourne
2007 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Summer Samples, Intrude Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Graduate Exhibition, Rmit University, Melbourne
2005 New Collectables, first site RMIT Union Gallery Melbourne,
2005 Beneath the Surface, Fire Station Melbourne
2004 Cardigan, the Foundry, Melbourne,
2004 Couch Art, Area Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
COMMISSIONS + PROJECTS
2018 Commission painting private residence
2018 Commission paintings Wooded Hollow series, Rose Chapel, Gardner Wetherill & Associates NSW
2017 Museum of Lost Public Notice Project participant, coordinated by David Dellafiora and Phil Edwards,
2017 George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University.
2017 Commission paintings private residence 2017
2016 Maibaum for Hanna, Installation, Small Space, La Niche, Melbourne
2015 Commission painting private residence
2014 Commission paintings Friday’s Child, Oberon Estate, Merrijig, Vic
2011 Commission painting, private residence, 2009, 2006, 2005 and 2004
PROFFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2017 Mentoring resident artist at Heritage Hill Museum and Arts Centre, Dandenong Vic
RESIDENCY
2017 Heritage Hill Museum, City of Greater Dandenong, Dandenong Vic
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
Neill C. 2018. Dandenong Star Journal, 2 July,p. 18 https://dandenong.starcommunity.com.auRogers L. 2017, 'Manyung ends year on high note' Mornington Peninsuala Magazine, p. 97
Tatman C. 2017, 'Sense of Wonder' Frankston Leader 21 August, p.15
2017 'She Opens the door to female artists with fresh look' The Dandenong Journal, 16 March, p3 http://dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/journal/2017-03-16/she-opens-the-door-to-female-artists/
http://artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au/Exhibitions/Past_Exhibitions_-_2016/FAC_Open_Exhibition
Rogers L. 2016, ‘Colour Texture and Synergy’ Mornington Peninsula Magazine, p 67
Tatman C. 2016, ‘Art is Open to Analysis’ Frankston Leader 15 August, p. 17, Mornington Leader 16 August.
2013 ‘Creating Memories’ Mornington News 29th October, p52 Southern Peninsula News p.37
Grace W. 2012, ‘A summer of art at Manyung’, Sorrento village life summer 2012-2013 p.12
McCauley D. 2012, ‘Artists share their studio space and their talents’, 2 October, p. 3
2012,'See & Do' Port Phillip Review 3 October, p.17
Spalding S. 2011, 'Artists honing skills' Port Phillip Leader, 23 August, p 8
Clark-Kennedy J. 2011, 'New art heralds season's change', Mornington News, 28 July - 10 August, p.3
Rainforth D. 2011, ‘Giving a bean to change a life’, The Age, 6 July, p.15
2010, ‘Art, A little bit of summer,’ Village Voice, Courier Newspapers, December, p. 12.
2010 ‘Brightening up a washed out summer’, Inner West Courier, Inner City Edition, 7 December, p.1.
2010, ‘See & Do’, Melbourne Weekly, 21-27 July, p.4.
Ryan L. 2010 ‘The art of seasonal changes’, Port Phillip Leader 18th May, p.30.
Ryan L. 2010 'an abstract capturing of the rhythms of life', Stonnington Leader, 18 May, p.8.
2010, ‘art & about’, Melbourne Weekly, 5 May, p.37
2009, ‘Capturing Nature’, Caulfield Glen Eira Leader, 24 November, p.7.
2009, ‘Second Nature’, Melbourne Weekly Bayside, 18 November, p. 6.
Backhouse M .2008, ‘Art around the galleries’, The Age, 7 June, p. 10, 2008
Awadalla A.2008 ‘Inspired by nature’, The Bayside Leader 24 June, p.41.
'Fresh waters provide new fish’, Heidelberg Leader, 1 April, p.14, 2005
COLLECTIONS
Rare Book collections, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. Rydges Hotels & Resorts,
RMIT University, Private Collections Melbourne, Malaysia and USA
