Wendy Anderson’s abstract paintings, drawings and assemblages are based on an extended period of world travel made over recent years.
The work explores the anonymity of journeying, the sense it gives of altered identity and the infiltration of experience into an iconography. The architecture of foreign cities, seen in transit, or from a high-rise vantage point, is reflected in the formal structures of paintings which combine handmade oils with diary notes, collage and photographs.
In 2015 Anderson was artist in residence at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, which culminated in a solo exhibition. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Odds and Evens, Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts, London and Mapping Form with Kathy McKarthy, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London (both 2017). Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions including We are (not) amused, Baca, Beijing (2019);
Anderson was born in Elgin, Scotland in 1961. She studied at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen (1979 – 1983), and obtained an MA from Birmingham Polytechnic (1983 – 1984).
Anderson has authored many publications including exhibitions texts for the Royal Academy of Arts on Anish Kapoor, Jospeh Beuys and Sensation. Her paintings are held in a number of private and public collections including Arthur Anderson UK; British Land; The Economist
and Warwickshire Museum.
Eagle Gallery represented artist
