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Exhibitions
1998/9
art tm, Inverness (solo); Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauly; Royal Glasgow Institute
of Fine Art, Glasgow; Brown's Gallery, Tain; The Unknown Gallery, Edinburgh;
Vital Art Exhibition-The Gallery, Cow-Cross Street, London; Glasgow Art Fair;
Edinburgh College of Art, Postgraduate Exhibition, "Black and White";
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, "Annual Students Exhibition";
Lochaber Art Society, Fort William, "Annual Exhibition" (96/97/98);
Atkinson Gallery, Ida Branson Bequest Exhibition, Somerset; Stenton Gallery
"Out of Edinburgh"; Boath House Gallery, Nairn (1998); Fotheringham
Gallery, Bridge of Allan (1998); E1 Gallery, Spitalfields, London (solo);
Scottish Society of Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Diorama
Gallery, London; Aberdeen-shire Heritage, two person show, "Inner
Landscape"; Highlands and Islands Open - (Tour Venues: Inverness Museum
and Art Gallery & art.tm, Inverness; lona Gallery; Highland Folk Museum,
Kingussie; Timespan Heritage Centre, Helmsdale; St Fergus Gallery, Wick;
Swanson Gallery, Thurso; Lochaber area) Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh; Edinburgh
College of Art, "Assembly Point"; Ogilvy and Estill, Conwy, Wales,
"Expressions"; Edinburgh College of Art, "Annual January
Exhibition" (95/96/97)
1997
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Candid
Art Gallery, London; Coningsby Gallery, London "Life Forms"; Frames
Gallery, Perth; East Sutherland Art Society, Golspie; Peterborough,
"Fruits of the Forest" & residency
1996
University Staff Club, Edinburgh, "Visions of Six"; Glen Gorm Castle,
Isle of Mull (1993)
Art
Awards/Prizes
Queens Anniversary Award for work produced 1995/96
Travel Scholarship, Andrew Grant Memorial Fund: March, 1996
D.M. Hall Centenary Competition - 2nd prize awarded for painting: March, 1997
Landscape Award, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh: 7th March, 1998
Judges Commendation, Highland Open: 31 July, 1998
Materials Scholarship, Andrew Grant Memorial Fund: June, 1999
Public Commissions
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 1999
Canary Riverside Hotel, London: Four paintings, October 1999
Reviews
D.M. Hall Centenary Competition Press Release, Wednesday 5 March 1997:
"Wendy's paintings evoke the landscape sources upon which all of her work
draws. While almost monochromatic, it is rich in colour, subtly composed and
sensitively painted." Kirkland Main
The Herald - Review for the "Visions of Six" Exhibition, August 1996
"Wendy Sutherland, winner of the third year students' Queens Anniversary
Award, presents powerful, dark pieces - enveloping, claustrophobic darknesses
split by slits of light, echoes of her native Northern forests." Sally
Kerr
The Scotsman - Review for the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, June 1997
"Wendy Sutherland paints in a way that is reminiscent of William
Johnstone's great abstract landscapes." Duncan Macmillan
The Scotsman Review for the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, June 1998
"Wendy Sutherland is a powerful free abstract painter." Duncan
Macmillan
Artist's Statement
The Highland landscape is for me a poetic subject. My memories are an important
source for my work, however it is when these impressions are translated through
the language of paint and other mixed media that I feel that my images become
some thing more than traditional Scottish landscape painting. The process by
which these images are made is very important to me. The process ranges from
physically throwing paint and pigment onto the canvas to delicately drawing and
rendering images. Although the figure is abandoned my work I consider it to be
very much about a human relationship to the landscape.
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