Wendy McDonald

Born Melbourne, Australia

Lives and Works Thule (Barapa Barapa)

Wendy McDonald lives and works on the flood plains at Thule, in South West NSW. Her work draws from the ecology of the local environment, the ebb and flow of the creeks and rivers and the dramatic changes of the seasons. McDonald’s paintings are an unashamedly feminine interpretation of this ephemeral wetland landscape and advocate strongly for water policy which reconnects and rehydrates country in these fragile places.

McDonald’s work has been shown in galleries across NSW and Victoria and is held in many private collections. She was included in the 2018 Thames & Hudson publication A Painted Landscape, a survey of Australian landscape painting by Amber Creswell-Bell, and has been a finalist in numerous awards including the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize (2016, 2017 & 2018), Paddington Art Prize, Calleen Art Prize and the Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Prize. In 2022 she was a recipient of the Defiance Gallery, Nock Residency Award, in the Paddington Art Prize for Australian Landscape.