CV | Wendy Sharpe
| 1960 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
| Art Certificate, Seaforth Technical College, Sydney | |
| B. A. (Visual Arts), City Art Institute, Sydney | |
| Graduate Diploma of Education, City Art Institute | |
| Graduate Diploma of Professional Art, City Art Institute | |
| M.A. (Fine Arts), College of Fine Arts, University of NSW | |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| The Imagined Life - Wendy Sharpe Retrospective S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney |
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| Travel Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, QLD | |
| Venice King Street Gallery on William, Sydney |
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| Paris King Street Gallery on William | |
| Travel MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Vic | |
| Intimacy and Solitude Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide, S.A. | |
| Stories from the Studio Philip Bacon Galleries, Sydney | |
| Tales from the Studio MARS Gallery | |
| the opera series king street gallery on burton, sydney | |
| Million Dollar Mermaid Australian National Maritime Museum | |
| Artist and City Paintings and Spanish Series Chapman Gallery, Canberra | |
| paintings (city series) king street gallery on burton | |
| Travel Paintings Phillip Bacon Gallery | |
| Recent Paintings Chapman Gallery | |
| Paintings Phillip Bacon Gallery | |
| Wendy Sharpe: a selection of works 1999-2002 king street gallery on burton at Span Galleries, Melbourne | |
| new paintings king street gallery on burton | |
| New Beginnings-East Timor, Australian War Memorial, Canberra | |
| East Timor, king street gallery on burton | |
| Drawings, Paintings and Mixed Media Works for The Annette Kellermann Mural, (at Cook & Phillip Aquatic Centre, Sydney) king street gallery, sydney | |
| Night Paintings, king street gallery on burton | |
| new work, king street gallery on burton | |
| new work, king street gallery on burton | |
| Recent Paintings, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney | |
| Ghosts, Pod Theatre, Sydney | |
| Magic Paintings, DC Art Gallery, Sydney | |
| Recent Paintings, DC Art Gallery | |
| Selected Work, Nidus Gallery, Sydney | |
| Fire Inside, First Impressions Gallery, Sydney | |
| Lingering Images, Visual Arts Gallery, Sydney | |
| Sex and Death, Nicholson Street Gallery, Sydney | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| Dobel Drawing Prize AGNSW Sydney |
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| Arkaba Station King Street Gallery on William, Sydney |
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| Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize (finalist) The Croydon, PLC, Sydney |
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| Drawing: A Fundamental Liberation Wagner Gallery, Sydney |
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| Tales from the City Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW |
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| Slow Burn - A Century of Women Artists from a Private Collection SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney |
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| Small Images - Grand Visions 40/40 Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney |
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| The Sulman Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Salon Des Refuse S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Grand Tour (Bernard Ollis and Wendy Sharpe) United Galleries, Perth |
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| Finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, travelling exhibition | |
| The Doug Moran Portrait Prize State Library of NSW, Sydney | |
| Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, PLC Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Drawn Line, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney | |
| Urban Myth [two person with Bernard Ollis], United Galleries, Perth | |
| Drawn Encounters, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK | |
| Sordid Tales, NG Art, Sydney | |
| JADA Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery & travelling | |
| Art of Music, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney NSW | |
| Stellar Art of Music 2008, Art Gallery Of New South Wales | |
| Drawcard 08, National Art School, Sydney NSW | |
| Trinity Remembers, The Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, Sydney NSW | |
| Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H Ervin Gallery | |
| Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales [purchased piece] | |
| 9x5, Savage Club, Melbourne | |
| An artist at my table, Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney NSW | |
| Dusk til Dawn, The Delmar Gallery, Sydney | |
| Cuisine & Country, [curated by Gavin Wilson] Orange Regional Gallery, NSW & travelling | |
| Salon Des Refuse, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Squared, Greenhill Gallery, Perth | |
| Group Therapy, Chapman Gallery | |
| The Inaugural Adelaide Perry Prize For Drawing, Sydney | |
| The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Salon Des Refuse, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| witness to WAR [official art and photograhy 1999-2003], SH Ervine Gallery [travelling NSW] |
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| The Art of the Operatic, The Arts Centre, Melbourne | |
| The Delmar Codex [curated by Nick Vickers], Delmar Gallery | |
| Australian Art, Hong 1K University Gallery, Seoul, South Korea | |
| Fireworks-tracing the incendiary in Australian Art, (curated by Gavin Wilson) travelling to regional galleries throughout NSW; Qld; Vic | |
| Collaboration- Sydney Printmakers, Gosford Regional Gallery; Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW; Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld | |
| Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery New South Wales | |
| Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery, Sydney | |
| Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld | |
| Salon des Refuse, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Art + Humour, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Defiance Drawing Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney | |
| Walking the Line- an exhibition of drawing by National Art School Staff, (curated by Lesley Harding) Cell Block Theatre, NAS | |
| Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| drawcard’ National Art School, Sydney | |
| 2004 The Year in Art’ National Trust, SH Irvin Gallery | |
| Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney | |
| Spectrum 2004’ [FONAS], Parliament House, Sydney | |
| Westpac Art Prize, Sydney | |
| Reg Richardson Collection Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery | |
| The Salon Des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Winner - Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales- 50th Anniversary Exhibition and Auction, Sydney | |
| Winner- Allen Gamble Memorial Art Prize (in conjunction with Mosman Art Prize), Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney |
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| Ned Kelly-Framed’ National Trust of Australia, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| king street gallery at Span Galleries, Melbourne | |
| Kedumba Drawing Prize, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW | |
| Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Erotica, Metro5, Melbourne | |
| Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Federation, (curated by John McDonald) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | |
| A Studio in Paris – Australian Artists at the Cite, (curated by Jane Watters), SH Ervin Gallery |
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| Works on Paper, (2 person show with Nora Heysen), Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle | |
| Studio Tradition, (curated by Therese Kenyon), Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney | |
| Bat, Ball and Brush, A Summer of Cricket and Art at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney |
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| Art on Steel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Wollongong City Gallery, NSW; Museum of Tropical Queensland, Qld (& travelling) |
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| Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| last show of the year, king street gallery on burton | |
| The Greatest Show on Earth’ Cutcliffe Gallery, Sydney | |
| Ceramics and Works on Paper (collaborative with Janna Ferris), Chapman Gallery | |
| Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, king street galleries, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
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| The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Witness to War-Australian War Memorial, (curated by Claire Baddeley & Katherine McMahon), Mornington Regional Art Gallery & travelling throughout NSW; Qld; Vic |
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| 1999 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| last show of the year, king street gallery on burton | |
| Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| 1998 last show of the year, king street gallery on burton | |
| gallery artists, king street gallery on burton | |
| Winner- The Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| gallery artists, king street gallery | |
| The Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales and travelling exhibition: Moree Regional Art Gallery; Dubbo Regional Art Gallery; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW |
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| Winner- Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Winner- Kedumba Drawing Prize, Kedumba Gallery | |
| The Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales and travelling exhibition: Goulburn Regional Art Gallery; Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery; Tamworth Regional Art Gallery, NSW |
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| Erotic/Exotic, (2 person with Tim Schultz), Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney king street gallery on burton |
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| Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Critic’s Choice, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney | |
| Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Erotic/Exotic, Inner Circle Gallery, Sydney | |
| Portia Geach Memorial Portait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| A Figurative Focus, Tamworth Regional Art Gallery | |
| The Intimate Experience (Australian Women’s Images of Women), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney |
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| International Women’s Exhibition, Women’s Gallery | |
| Modern Muses: Classical Mythology in Australian Art (1940 – 1989)’ SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Elysian Muses Return, EMR Gallery, Sydney | |
| Fresh Art, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Winner- Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Selected Awards, Prizes, Residencies & Major Commissions | |
| Taronga Zoo Artist Residency, Sydney |
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| Finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, travelling exhibition | |
| Commissioned by Arts Centre Victoria for Ballet Russes Exhibition (and Regional Touring exhibition) |
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| The Australian Ballets tribute to the Ballet Russes, The Arts Centre Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Artist Residency-Australian Embassy [by personal invitation of the Australian Ambassador], Cairo, Egypt | |
| Awarded Tenancy of studio, Cite des Arts Paris [AGNSW] | |
| Limited edition print for Inaugural Fine Art Heritage Fund Raising Program for the Australian Red Cross (launched 6 Nov, Brisbane Room, Brisbane City Hall, Qld) |
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| Allen Gamble Memorial Art Prize, Sydney | |
| Winner-Portia Geach Memorial Prize Award, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Commissioned as Official Australian War Artist to East Timor, Australian War Memorial ACT |
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| Commissioned by the City of Sydney for Olympic pool murals based on the life of Annette Kellerman (8 panels), Cook & Phillip Aquatic Centre |
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| Bathurst Art Prize, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | |
| Winner-Archibald Prize Winner, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Winner-Kedumba Drawing Prize, New South Wales | |
| Winner-Portia Geach Memorial Prize, SH Ervin Gallery | |
| Robert Le Gay Bereton Drawing Prize | |
| Australia Post Graduate Research Award | |
| Waverley Art Prize, New South Wales | |
| Mercedes Benz Scholarship: travel to Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Italy | |
| Awarded tenancy Cite International Studio, Paris | |
| Dyason Bequest | |
| Marten Bequest, Travelling Art Scholarship | |
| Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Arts Centre Victoria |
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| Australian War Memorial, Canberra | |
| Australian Embassy, Paris, France | |
| Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | |
| BHP Australia | |
| City of Sydney Council | |
| Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery |
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| Kedumba Drawing Collection | |
| Manly Regional Gallery |
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| Orange Regional Gallery, NSW | |
| Qantas, Australia |
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| University of Sydney, NSW | |
| University of Queensland, Qld | |
| Waverley Council | |
| Warringah Council | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| Wyndham, Susan: ‘In the frame’ Spectrum p 31 |
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| Kidd, Courtney: Wendy Sharpe 128 page monograph design by Martin Lane, published by Offset Alpine Printing, Sydney | |
| Meacham, Steve: Stripped Bare for Rare Look Back Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 21, pp14-15 | |
| Fortescue, Elizabeth: Vivid Celebration of Life The Daily Telegraph, Feb 21, p26 |
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| McDonald, John: Goddess who mixes fact and fiction [Wendy Sharpe: Imagined Life] Specturm, SMH, Mar 12-13, pp16-17 |
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| Artists get their head around animal instincts SMH, p20 |
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| Taylor, Andrew: Hard to keep your eyes on the prize The Sun Heral, Apr 2, p19 |
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| Cuthbertson, Ian: Arts face off in bigger battle for the Archibald The Australian, Apr 2 |
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| Allen, Christopher: Sensuous Compulson [Wendy Sharpe - The Imagined Life] The Weekend Australian, Review Section, Apr 2-3, pp 11-12 |
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| Taggart, Louise: Slow Burn - A Century of Women Artists from a Private Collection catalogue, SH Ervin, National Trust, pp 218-219 | |
| Sisley, Alan: Tales From The City: Bernard Ollis and Wendy Sharpe catalogue, Orange Regional Gallery |
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| ETC: Open Studios The Planner, SMH Spectrum, March 20-21, p20 |
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| Selinger-Morris, Samantha: Wendy Sharpe Profile SMHJul 17-18, pp4-5 |
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| Lopez, Annemarie: Art-Box Office (visual) The (Sydney) Magazine, Apr, p57 |
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| Allen, Christopher: About Face Weekend Australian, Mar 21- 22, p18 | |
| McDonald, John: When losers are winners SMH, Mar 21 – 22 | |
| Schwartzkoff, Louise: Perfectly at easel SMH Metro, May 8, p22 | |
| Allen, Christopher: Lands End Weekend Australian, Mar 28 | |
| Von Witt, Kathleen: Collections Hawksbury Regional Gallery, p33 | |
| War Room, SMH Spectrum, Apr 25 – 26, p6 | |
| Matchett, Stephen: The Art of War Weekend Australian Review, April 25 - 26 | |
| Trudgeon, Margaret (ed.): In the Wings Creative Australia and the Ballets Russes Catalogue, pp 26-27 | |
| Christopher, Lissa: Open Gallery: The Drawn Line Sydney Morning Herald
Spectrum, Nov 28-29, p14 |
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| Allen, Christopher: Walk the Line The Weekend Australian Review, Sept 20-21 |
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| Macdonald, Cindy (ed.): UpFront-your time starts now SMH Good Weekend, Oct 11-12, p16 | |
| Fortescue, Elizabeth: Sharpe has an exquisite French connection The Daily Telegraph, May 20, p42 |
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| Simmonds, Diana: Travels with my Art The Weekend Australian, Oct 11-12, p4 | |
| Gillies, Fiona: In the Frame The Sunday Telegraphy -My Space, Oct 26, pp6-7 | |
| Sharpe, Wendy: Look Magazine, May, pp33-35 | |
| Cockington, James: The G-d of small things SMH, Sept 10, p13 | |
| McCormick, Alice & Rhodes, Sarah: The Artists Lunch Pub: Murdoch Books, pp180-193 | |
| Upfront – Cofa Annual, The Good Weekend, Dec 1 | |
| McDonald, John: Studio Australia (extracted from ‘Studio: Australian Painters on the nature of Creativity’), Orient-Express Magazine, Volume 15 number 4 p40-48 |
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| Lloyd, Ian (photographer) and McDonald, John: Studio: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity published by Tower Books Australia |
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| McDonald, John: Anything goes in the silly season SMH, March 24–25, p16 | |
| Wilson, Gavin Cuisine & Country, Catalogue |
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| McDonald, John: A tasty treat for the senses, SMH, May 5-6, p16 | |
| McDonald, John: Tour of duty by lens and brush SMH, July 22-23, pp16-17 | |
| Schmidt, Lucinda: Profile: Wendy Sharpe SMH, Sept 20, p3 | |
| The Weekender, Million Dollar Mermaid, Good Weekend, Jan 14, p12 | |
| McDonald, John: Drawn to the flames Spectrum-SMH, Dec10-11, p29 | |
| Smee, Sebastian: Face Value Review-Weekend Australian, Apr 23-25, pR4-R5 | |
| Fortescue, Elisabeth: Arty laugh Sydney Live-The Daily Telegraph, Apr 4, p63 | |
| Wilson, Gavin: Fireworks-Tracing the Incendiary in Australian Art Art Space Mackay catalogue | |
| Walking the Line-drawings by National Art School Staff, catalogue, NAS | |
| Weight, Craig: Australian Icons Framed National Trust, p37 | |
| As a Crossword Clue, Apr 23-24, p60 | |
| Jingzhe Li (editor): Australian Contemporary Painting: The Classic Works of 42 Excellent Artists, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, pp101-104 | |
| Witness to War-Official Art and Photography 1999-2003, published by Australian War Memorial |
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| Griffin, Sasha: The Canberra Times, Sept | |
| Speck, Catherine: Painting Ghosts published by Craftsman House Press, pp200-203 | |
| Churcher, Betty: The Art of War published by The Miegunyah Press, pp166-168 | |
| Weight, Greg: Australian Artists published by Chapter & Verse, p166 | |
| Davies, Alan: An Eye for Photography published by The Miegunyah Press, pp104-105 | |
| Hill, Peter: Creative thoughts SMH, Nov 20, p44 | |
| Mclean, Sandra: Different Destination The Courier Mail, Oct 8, p4 | |
| Brown, Phil: Wendy Sharpe’s brush with travel Brisbane News, Oct, p39 | |
| Hill, Peter: Two to tango SMH, Oct 16 – 17 p18 | |
| Pierce, Peter: Dispatches from the Homefront SMH, Sept 4-5, p13 | |
| Fortescue, Elizabeth: city at night, Sydney Live-The Daily Telegraph, April 9, p65 | |
| Low, Lenny Ann: Wendy Sharpe, SMH, April | |
| Higson, Rosalie: The Face The Weekend Australian, April 10-11 p 3 | |
| Wendy Sharpe, Box Office – SMH, April | |
| Mascarenhas, Alan: Wendy Sharpe, Spotlight SMH, Metro, April 27 | |
| Higson, Rosalie: The Face Profile-The Weekend Australian, April 10-11, pR3* | |
| Morgan, Joyce: Enter at your own risk Spectrum-SMH, Mar 6-7, p4 | |
| Artist Week- Visual Arts Program, Adelaide Festival Artist Week, Feb28-Mar 4 | |
| Reid, Michael: Always buy the works you love The Weekend Australian, Feb 8-9, p42 | |
| Higson, Rosalie: Work from a woman’s perspective The Australian, Sept 26, p16 | |
| Low, Lenny Ann: Paper and tigers SMH, Oct 11-12 | |
| Fortescue, Elizabeth: A Sharpe focus on herself, The Daily Telegraph, Sept 26, p105 | |
| Verghis, Sharon: Rampant colour and chaos float in teacup over sea of restraint SMH, Sept 26, p5 |
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| Visual: A Thousand Words-East Timor Concert The Weekend Australian Mag, Dec 20-2, p2 | |
| Musa, Helen: New book captures the true colours of war The Canberra Times, May 21 | |
| Guerrera, Orietta: Book marks artists in conflict The Age, May 21, p7 | |
| Price, Jenna: Painting in sharp focus The Canberra Times, June 14, p17 | |
| Wilkins, Lola [editor]: Artist in Action (from the collection of the Australian War Memorial), Australian War Memorial Publication [front cover image] |
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| Gower, Steve: Artist in Action (from the collection of the Australian War Memorial), Australian War Memorial Publication, Lola Wilkins [editor], p156-157 |
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| Minus, Jodie: The Face-Gavin Wilson’ The Weekend Australian, Feb 8-9, pR3 | |
| Symmonds, Diana: An Artist at her Peak Sunday Telegraph, Oct 19, p120 | |
| Ball, Amelia: Portrait wins Praise The Glebe and Inner Western Weekly, Oct 8, p23 | |
| Buttenshaw, Lucy: Wendy Sharpe and Janna Ferris (cover), Pottery in Australia, Spring/Summer, p23 |
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| Callagon, Greg: A thousand Words-A painting by Wendy Sharpe The Weekend Australian Magazine, Dec 20-21 |
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| Wendy Sharpe Exhibits Here The Coffs Harbour Advocate, April 2 | |
| Thomas, David: Erotica Today catalogue for ‘Erotica’ exhibition, Metro5, Feb 27-Mar 17 | |
| Aldred, Debra: Ms Contrary, The Courier Mail, Nov 6, p23 | |
| Low, Lenny Anne: Lets be serious, it’s Archibald time, SMH, May 24 | |
| Lumby, Carrie: Two Kings Australian Art Collector, Issue 19, Jan-March, p62 | |
| McDonald, John: Australian Art and Society 1901- 2001 catalogue for ‘Federation’ exhibition, National Gallery of Australia |
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| Blinksell, Magella: Wendy Sharpe Reviews, Muse, August, p11 | |
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