Wendy Sharpe
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born Sydney 1960 lives and works Sydney and Paris
Solo exhibitions - a small selection of 40 exhibitions
2014 “ Night “ King Street Gallery on William , Sydney
2014 “ Conversations with Matisse “ Philip Bacon Galleries Brisbane QLD
2013 “Wendy Sharpe’s Antarctica”, Long Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, TAS
2013 “Truth or Dare’, Muk Muk Fine Art, Darwin, NT
2012 “Artist and Model”, Buratti Fine Art Fremantle Western Australia
2011 “Wendy Sharpe - the Imagined Life “ Retrospective S H Ervin Gallery Sydney
2010 ‘Venice’ King Street Gallery on William Sydney
2008 ‘Intimacy and Solitude ‘Adele Boag gallery Adelaide.
2008 ‘Paris’ King St Gallery on William gallery Sydney
2007 ‘Stories from the Studio “Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2006 “Couples“ Mars Gallery Melbourne
2005 ‘Artist & City”, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2004 ‘Travel paintings’ Phillip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
2000 ‘New Beginnings-East Timor,’ Australian War Memorial, Canberra
1999 ‘Drawings, Paintings and Mixed Media Works for The Annette Kellermann Mural’ Sydney
1991 ‘Ghosts’ Pod Theatre, Sydney
1990 ‘Magic Paintings’ DC Art Gallery, Sydney
1985 ‘Sex and Death’ Nicholson Street Gallery, Sydney
Awards, Prizes, Residencies and Major Commissions- a small selection
2014 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize winner
2014 Antarctica Artist Residency, Antarctic peninsula Mawson’s Hut Foundation
2013 ‘Manning Art Prize’, winner Manning Regional Gallery, Taree
2012 Antarctica Artist Residency Mawson Centenary –Mawson’s Hut Foundation
2011 Taronga Zoo Artist Residency Sydney
2009 Commissioned by Arts Centre Victoria, to draw the Australian Ballet
2008 Artist Residency Australian Embassy Cairo Egypt ( guest of the Ambassador. )
2006 Awarded tenancy Cite Internationale des Arts Studio, Paris Art Gallery of NSW
2003 Winner - Portia Geach Memorial Prize Award S.H Ervin Gallery
1999 Commissioned as Official Australian War Artist to East Timor, Australian War Memorial ACT (The 1st woman since WW2)
1998-99 Commission City of Sydney - Olympic pool murals Cook & Phillip Aquatic Centre
1998 Winner-Bathurst Art Prize, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
1996 Winner-Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales
1995 Winner-Kedumba Drawing Prize, New South Wales
Winner-Portia Geach Memorial Prize, SH Ervin Gallery
1992 Robert Le Gay Bereton Drawing Prize
Australian Post Graduate Research Award.
1989 Mercedes Benz Art Scholarship.
1986 Awarded tenancy Cite Internationale Studio, Paris Art Gallery of NSW
Marten Bequest, Travelling Art Scholarship (painting)
Dyason Bequest
Winner-Sulman Prize (judge Albert Tucker)
Finalist Sulman Prize –Art Gallery of NSW - 11 times
Finalist Archibald prize- Art Gallery of NSW - 5 times
Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize – Art Gallery of NSW - -12 Times
Included in, survey and travelling exhibitions in State and regional galleries through out Australia Collections include Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Consulate France, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Sydney Maritime Museum, Kedumba Drawing Collection, City of Sydney Council. Orange & Bathurst Regional Galleries, Qantas,The University of QLD, BHP Australia. Major Private collections Australian and international.
For a complete CV see www.wendysharpe.com
Lasmi
Lasmi arrived at International Animal Rescue’s Orangutan Emergency Centre on 7 November. She is a female with an estimated age of around 3-4 years old at the time of her arrival.
She comes from Ketapang: apparently she was in a police station and she stayed there for about a week before she was brought to the Centre by the forestry department. The information they gave us from the police is that Lasmi was being carried in a cage by a man who, when he saw a group of policemen, ran away, leaving the cage with the orangutan on the ground. So the police decided to take her to their offices until they contacted the forestry department. Unluckily, there are some gaps in the information and it is always hard to find out what the real story is.
In any case, when Lasmi arrived at the Centre she weighed 9kg, and her face was extremely pale. So her faeces were checked and they were fine. She was also given a blood test the day after she arrived to check if she had any problems and, although she was negative for Malaria, Typhoid was found. She was treated with antibiotics and also given iron to help with the production of red blood cells. When the vets analysed the blood by biochemistry, a liver dysfunction was identified. Thus she will be treated for a long time with multivitamins that come from the curcuma root. This helps the long term recovery of the liver function and apparently the treatment seems to be working as the last blood test done recently by biochemistry has been better compared with the first one done. Moreover she has been tested with the tuberculin test and it seems to be fine.
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Lasmi was very shy during the first days but she is getting more confident by the day. She was in the quarantine which lasts 1or 2 months, so until then she couldn’t be socialised with the other baby orangutans.
However, she likes to play alone with the enrichments and she loves to put everything on her head, even the food! Consequently she is frequently covered with mango, seeds or papaya. Strangely enough she doesn’t like bananas or the milk, but she loves syrup!!.
Lasmi is now doing very well in forest school learning all the skills she needs for her possible future in the wild.
