Wendy Grace
Wendy Grace is an Australian abstract painter living in Melbourne. Her practice centres on photography and painting creating works inspired by the natural landscape.
Gallery of Work
About me
Wendy Grace is an Australian abstract painter 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 are 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. A collection of her paintings are currently on display in Melbourne at the office of Sinclair + May and at the Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston.
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
2019 Reflections, Kinross Arts Centre, Toorak.
Infinite Space, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
Recent works, Sinclair + May, Melbourne
2018 Dream weaver, Art at St.Francis, Melbourne
Feels like Summer, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
Quiet Rhythms, Sinclair + May, Melbourne
Paperbark tales, Walker St Gallery & Arts Centre, City of Dandenong
2017 Sense of Place, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2017 Sirenuse, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2016 Winter’s Song, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza Vic
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
2019 John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Finalist, Outback Regional Gallery, Waltzing Matilda Centre, Queensland
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 Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Spiritual Art Prize, Recipient, Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne
2016 ANL Art Awards, Finalist, The Mission to seafarers, Melbourne
2016 Art in Science, ACMD Art Prize - Finalist, St Vincent's Hospital Gallery, 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 the 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 Recipient, First Prize My Favorite Place Postcard Exhibition, Tivoli Artspace, Melbourne
