Collection: Wen Dixon-Whiley
Wendy Dixon-Whiley is a Visual Artist working in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. With a Bachelor of Illustration Design and Master of Visual Art and Creative Practice, Wendy has participated in multiple group and solo exhibitions and works from her studio at the Hahndorf Academy in South Australia. She is best known in the Adelaide Hills for her large scale street art projects and her work is held in private collections in Australia and internationally. Wendy Dixon-Whiley’s energetic but considered works are executed in multiple mediums and scales as she works to find the best modes of expressing an internal visual universe of figures, marks and symbols.
Tracing her influences back to 80’s street art as well as graphic illustrative styles from 90’s popular culture, Dixon-Whiley domesticates at times dark and morbid social and religious themes through absurd and nonsensical forms. Her practice incorporates drawing, painting, installation and experimental methods to bring these ideas to life. Dixon-Whiley distills her imagery through a process of working with unbroken and unhesitant mark-making through to more detailed, illustrative works.