Wendy Murray : Printmaking

Barnsdall Art Center (BAC)
Application for Art Instructor Position: Printmaking Art Instructor
Art Instructor (2433)

‘There is no such thing as a bad drawing.
You may not appreciate your drawing now
- but trust me -
you will love it in six months'

Wendy Murray

GIVE ME SHELTER

Portfolio Commission
University of Southern California
2023
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DRAW the house

Sydney Opera House with Wendy Murray
April + May 2022

Once a month join like-minded creative souls to explore the Opera House and its surroundings through the eyes of an artist. Working with a different artist each month, explore various drawing techniques, and perspectives inspired by one of the world's most iconic buildings. 
Weekend workshop Series - 4 hours, including Opera House tour guide support.

Dobell Drawing Prize

Year: 2019
The Dobell Drawing Prize is an acquisitive art award that runs in alternative years to the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Dobell is the most pretentious drawing award in Australia.
Finalist: 2019
National Art School, AUS

’But you don’t have to embrace technology to be ‘new drawing’. One of my personal favourites among the finalists is the work of Wendy Murray, which is the epitome of traditional drawing. However she, like Leigh, has turned drawing into a performed experience.

Over the exhibition’s duration Murray is located in the gallery where she is turning her studies of Redfern into a more organic mind map, that is less about location and more about association. It is a beautiful piece... READ REVIEW >>

Portraits of Nouns

Artist Book (drawings)
Year: 2021-23
Waverly City Council
2020-221
Sydney, AUS

COVID-19 ONLINE Drawing workshops

Waverley Council, AUS
Year: 2020-2021
A series of innovative drawing activities to explore the possibilities of art-making, during difficult circumstances.
Drawing on your imagination, participants were challenged to create portraits and imagined spaces, using found objects.

Subterranean Geography in Australia Symposium

University of NSW, AUS
Year: 2022
The Subterranean Geography in Australia Symposium event brought together “underground” and “underwater” geography scholars in Australia in order to discuss and identify key Australian-related themes for the“subterranean turn.”
Wendy Murray was commissioned by UNSW to respond to each session with a drawing. These drawings will feature in a future publication.

Night & DAY

Bathurst Regional Gallery, AUS
Year: 2019
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Publication & exhibition

CHATTER - collaborative drawing WORkSHOP

TROPPO Print Studios, AUS
Year: 2023
Together we created a work that reflects the chatter we have to deal with - the chatter in our minds, from those close to us and from society.
4 hour workshop at TROPPO Print Studios, Melbourne

Sydney - We Need to Talk!

University of Sydney
2018
Writing and Illustrations for the 2018 University of Sydney publication Sydney - We Need to Talk!