Fine Arts Collection- Alumnae Artists

Title: Stages of the Individual Medium: plaster on board, acrylics, and varnish Date: 1969 Dimensions: 218 x 130 cm Collection category: ceramics, alumnae artist

After graduating from Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Wendy Allen won an Art Scholarship to Brisbane Central Technical College, studying under tutors such as William Robinson, Melville Haysom, and Carl McConnell. She has been a teacher for a substantial part of her career, both at the tertiary and secondary level, including at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, and has travelled and lectured overseas in her capacity as an artist and teacher.

Wendy has also published textbooks on art for use in primary, secondary, and university classes.

‘ The majority of my paintings evolve in layers so that the content can be approached from a contemplation of several perspectives such as the archetypal principles at work in Nature, references from any aspect of human endeavour such as mythologies, philosophies, religions, and politics and from my own personal experience. The viewer can delve as deeply as he or she wishes, ’ Wendy said.

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