In the Studio: Wendy Sharpe

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In a new exhibition Wendy breaks conventions, painting on walls and installing herself in the gallery, becoming part of the art. Wendy Sharpe is an multi-award winning Australian artist working on a new exhibition Spellbound for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. In this exhibition she breaks all the rules, by painting directly onto walls, hanging works upside down or touching and installing not only her studio in this museum, but also herself, as she paints a mural directly on the wall in front of the public. Regina Botros joins her as she works towards this immersive, labyrinth-like exhibition, where the lines between art and artist are blurred.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Regina Botross. Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.
0:08.0	The program that brings you the leading creatives reflecting our world.
0:13.0	And in this case, I'll be following the award-winning
0:16.1	Australian artist Wendy Sharp.
0:18.8	It probably goes right back to maybe when I first started painting.
0:23.0	As she prepares for a major exhibition called Spellbound
0:26.8	at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
0:31.1	The Genesis of the idea harks back to the early 90s when she was doing her masters.
0:37.0	My thesis was called Art is a Monster from a quote by an artist called Sandro Chia that says art is a monster you don't
0:47.6	know where it comes from or indeed where it is exactly but as an artist you have the responsibility of entering the
0:56.7	labyrinth and bringing back its head. Wendy was a war artist in East Timor.
1:03.0	She had residences around the world in places like Antarctica and China,
1:07.6	and she's just returned from Ethiopia.
1:09.6	Nice to see Regina.
1:11.4	It's early March, and over two months before the exhibition. I'm meeting Wendy on a
1:16.3	walk she does every day from her home to her studio in one of Sydney's most
1:20.8	colourful neighborhoods in the inner west.
1:23.6	It's a time for reflection.
1:26.4	It's a time to contemplate.
1:28.8	And I actually really enjoy it, not just the walk,
1:32.4	but the thinking time.
1:35.0	And that's something I'm very interested in.
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