The first exhibition by Wendy Sharpe at the Art Gallery of NSW breaks all the rules of an orderly gallery hang.
in which she painted herself in the guise of the Roman goddess Diana, her hunting bow replaced by paintbrushes., lifts the lid on the magic of the artist’s unbridled creative process and her kaleidoscopic practice over the past four decades. “I like them to be strong. I want them to be painterly,” Sharpe says. “I don’t want them to look like they’ve been laboured over which often means you have to paint the same thing over and over again until it’s right. It needs to feel that it happened without strain, and it all has to work.”
It’s not unusual to see ghosts and monsters and shards of memories and imagination floating in the background of her major works. Monsters were the subject of her degree in fine arts at the University of NSW, and they reappear - a green one with many bosoms looking deliberately like cupcakes with cherries on top.
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