Wendy Sharpe is an Australia

Australia

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n artist. Winner of the Sulman Prize

Sulman Prize

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 in 1986 with Black Sun - Morning and Night and the Archibald Prize

Archibald Prize

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 in 1996 with Self Portrait - as Diana of Erskineville, she has entered the Archibald Prize at least 6 times and been hung at least 3 times. She was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner

Peter Berner

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 documentary about the Archibald Prize called Loaded Brush.

She was one of Australia's official war artists sent to East Timor

East Timor

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 in 1999.

Certificates

• 1978-79 Art Certificate - Seaforth Technical College
• 1980-82 City Art Institute - Bachelor of Visual Arts
• 1983 Sydney Institute of Education - Graduate Diploma of Education
• 1984 City Art Institute - Graduate Diploma of Professional Art
• 1987 Tenancy of Studio in Paris (Dr Denise Hickey studio)
• 1987-88 Travelling scholarship to Europe and New York
• 1989 Mercedes-Benz Scholarship to Egypt, Israel, Greece and Italy
• 1991-92 MA (Fine Art) - College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
• 1994 Margaret Fesq Memorial Art Prize
• 1994 Cite International des Arts, Paris

Selected awards

• 1986 Awarded term of tenancy of studio at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 1986 Dyason Bequest
• 1986 Marten Bequest, Travelling Art Scholarship (painting)
• 1986 Sulman Prize
  Sulman Prize
  The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest running art prizes, having been established in 1936.It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney.-Criteria:The Sir John...
  
  , judged by Albert Tucker
• 1989 Mercedes Benz Scholarship
• 1990/94 Modern Figurative Award, Sydney Royal Art Show (Judge Kevin Connor)
• 1990 Waverley Art Prize
  Waverley Art Prize
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• 1991–92 Australia Post Graduate Research Award
• 1992 Robert Le Gay Bereton Drawing Prize
• 1995 Portia Geach Memorial Award
  Portia Geach Memorial Award
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• 95 Kedumba Drawing Prize, Fairmont Resort, Leura
• 1996 Archibald Prize
  Archibald Prize
  The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
  
  (Diana of Erskinville)

Solo exhibitions

• 1985 "Sex and Death" Nicholson Street Gallery, Sydney
• 1986 "Fire Inside" First Impressions Gallery, Sydney
• 1986 "Lingering Images" Visual Arts Gallery Sydney
• 1987 Selected Work Nidus Gallery, Sydney
• 1989 Recent Paintings, DC-ART, Sydney
• 1990 "Magic Paintings", DC-ART, Sydney
• 1991 "Ghosts" POD Theatre, Sydney
• 1993 Recent Paintings, Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney