Wendy Black
My favourite quote, is from Brancusi and it’s on the studio wall
‘It is not the outward form which is real, it is the essence of things. On this basis, it is impossible for anyone to express anything real by imitating the surface appearance.’
Wendy Black
2005 – present Teaching (Adult) workshop classes at the Tom Bass Sculpture School
2008 – present holiday workshops at Cootamundra Arts Centre
2006 – 2008 Teaching coordinator Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
2004 Assistant to Tom Bass
1989 – present bringing up the family
1987 – 1989 Freelance Illustrator, producing book covers and illustrations for Angus and Robertson and Transworld Publishers
1987 – Emigrated to Australia
Prior to emigration:
Freelance Illustrator in London | Conde Naste Publishing, Adverting Dept | Redheads Advertising, London. Production | Tony Corbett Advertising, Exmouth. Production | Severn Advertising, Exeter. Production assistant
Wimbeldon Art School. Diploma
Exeter Art School, Foundation course
Exhibitions
8 Sculptors at the Exhibition Space, TBSS, 2009
Mosman Street Exhibition, 2006
Nowa Nowa Nudes 2005
Inaugural Marrickville Open Studio Trail 2005. July 2005
Sculpture 2005. Jan 2005
Tom Bass Studio Sculpture School Annual Student Exhibitions1997-2005
Sculpture Society Annual Exhibition, Darling Park. August 2009-2003.
Sculpture Society Exhibition, Australia Square 2003
Women’s Sculpture Exhibition 2000, ABC Foyer.
Ku ring gai Arts Centre Annual Student Exhibition 1995-1997
Commissions
‘Edmund Rice’ for Christian Bros Lewisham
‘Ricky Ponting’, ‘Kim Hughes’, Percy McDonnell, for the Cootamundra Shire Council, Australian Cricket Captains walk.
Madonna and child, commemorative gift for Christian Bros Lewisham
Mr Maly private commission
‘Paddington’, private commission
‘Serendipity’ private collection