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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Wurundjeri country on which I live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present.

Wendy Catling (she/her) is an Australian visual artist working primarily in the medium of photography. Motivated by personal and family histories, the artist takes a reparative approach to the complexities and tensions of human relationships. Her work focuses on shame, memory, power, and intergenerational trauma. She employs alternative, digital, vernacular and studio photography, video and installation practices.

Catling completed her MA - Photography project, Nightshade, in 2020 supervised by Dr Kristian Haggblom and mentored by Janina Green (Aus) and Melinda Gibson (UK). She has worked as a textile designer, stage manager, theatre administrator, and a sound and lighting operator for comedy improvisers. Since 2001 Catling has taught art and photography to secondary and adult students. She volunteers with victims of domestic violence and as a gallery tour guide. Her works have been shown in UK, Singapore, Kuwait, USA, and Australia and are in collections at Warrnambool Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia and in private collections. She lives on the outskirts of Naarm, (Melbourne), surrounded by native bushland reserves with her sound designer, film maker partner.
  • MA Photography - Photography Studies College, Melbourne
  • Post Graduate Certificate of Education - Greenwich University, London
  • BA Fine Art - Monash University, Melbourne

Exhibitions:
New Photobooks from Australia, V&A Museum, London, 2024
Dear Neighbour, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Ringwood, 2023-24
Speculative Horizons, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait, 2023
Nightshade, Alternating Current, Windsor, Vic, Australia, 2020
Hard Light, Ballarat International Foto Bienale, Vic, Australia, 2015  
Light Sensitive, (Group show) Art Intersection, Arizona, USA, 2015

Publication:
En un pais de madres (cover image), A M Homes, 2024, Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona.
Enough is Enough, 2023, (Eds) McInnes, V & Fraser, S, Perimeter Editions & Art+Australia, Melbourne.
Nightshade, 2022, Catling W, (design: Kim Mumm Hansen) M.33, Melbourne.
Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice, 2019, Anderson C Z, Routledge, New York.
Cyanotype: L’Art et La Technique, 2023, Anderson, C Z, Paris, France.

Awards:
2024 Shortlisted for Singapore International Photography Festival photobook awards
2024 Honorable Mention Australian-New Zealand Photobook Awards
2021 Finalist in Zart National Teacher-Artist Awards
2021 Finalist in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale GradFoto Award
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