Wendy Sharpe
(Australia 1960– )
- Title
- Red dress
- Place of origin
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Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 2007
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- black ink and brush, white gouache, watercolour, charcoal, pastel on white paper
- Dimensions
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102.0 x 153.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, pencil "W Sharpe". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Gil & Shay Docking Drawing Fund 2007
- Accession number
- 316.2007
- Copyright
- © Wendy Sharpe
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Wendy Sharpe's imagery is deliberately evocative and open to interpretation, suggestive - but not prescriptive - of narrative, and characteristically expressive and ebullient. This drawing relates to a series of works shown at Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane in August 2007, in an exhibition titled 'Stories from the studio' (31 July – 25 August 2007). Sharpe made a gouache study and oil painting of the same subject: the artist in her studio surrounded by enigmatic figures.
The quality and confidence of Sharpe's draughtsmanship is clearly evident in this particular drawing. In charcoal, pastel and ink it is less dependent upon the painterly use of gouache which has marked her work in previous years and therefore as a drawing, is the stronger for it. A drama of black and orange, centered upon the generous proportions of the female figure, 'Red dress' is one of Sharpe’s impressive recent drawings.
- Bibliography (2)
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Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Helen Campbell (Australia) (Author), Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, Sydney, 2012, 5 (colour illus., detail), 71 (colour illus.), 78.
'A fine harvest of drawings: legacy of an exceptional draughtsman' by Hendrik Kolenberg, pg. 28-31., Look Nov 2011, Nov 2011, 31.
- Exhibition history (3)
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Dobell Prize for Drawing 2007, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 24 Aug 2007–04 Nov 2007.
Wendy Sharpe: The Imagined Life, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 26 Feb 2011–10 Apr 2011.
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, 15 Feb 2013–24 Mar 2013.
