Wendy Teakel

My practice questions relationships between cultural and natural spaces, particularly referencing rural settings. In these sculptures a river stone, formed through time by natural forces balances on fabricated human structures.  The sculptures look a bit like agricultural storage faculties where we humans stockpile resources through both greed and necessity. Equally the works advocate the necessity to support and future-proof the natural world and to elevate the natural (stone) above the human (fabrication).

Wendy Teakel has held 38 solo exhibitions in public and private galleries and had work curated into over 80 selected exhibitions in Australia and overseas. She holds a Masters by Research, RMIT, 2004 and was head of Sculpture at the ANU, 2008-2017. Her work is held in significant collections including the NGA and regional galleries in Australia. Recent awards, residencies and grants include; invited artist Chiang Mai International Sculpture Symposium (2018), Echigo Tsumari Australia House Residency, Japan (2016), Australia Council Tokyo Studio (2016), artsACT project grant (2017), Transfield Invited Artist, Sculpture by the Sea Bondi (2018). She has been a finalist in significant prizes, recently including; Sculpture At Scenic World (2019 winner), Ginninderry Drawing Prize (2020 winner), Deakin Small Sculpture prize (2022, 2021). Wendy works as a freelance artist from her studio at Murrumbateman NSW.