NEWS
August 2024
Nightshade shortlisted in the 2024 Singapore International Photography Festival photobook awards.
March 2024
Nightshade selected by a panel of judges at the Photo2024 festival in Melbourne for an exhibition of photobooks by Australian women artists at the Victoria & Albert Museum Photography Centre, London (Room 98 The Kusuma Gallery) May - November 2024 and will become a part of their permanent collection.
“A new touring exhibition from PHOTO Australia celebrates women photographers who are receiving international acclaim and reaching new audiences through publishing. Collectively these publications reflect a variety of approaches to contemporary practice and address a range of subjects – social, political and environmental – of universal concern.”
“Wendy Catling deftly addresses her mother’s experience with domestic violence in her sombre and tender publication Nightshade. “
V&A Blog article: Photography Centre browsing library – new photobooks from Australia
Nightshade awarded Honorable Mention in Australian - New Zealand Photobooks Awards
Undercurrent, 2015 (Cyanotype), published as cover image for the spanish edition of In a Country of Mothers by A M Homes.
February 2023
Nightshade travels to Kuwait as part of Speculative Horizons exhibition and symposium.
“Speculative Horizons is an exciting new collaboration between Kuwait and Australia that will feature contemporary Australian and Kuwaiti photography and develop an expanding dialogue between the regions. The collaboration will be launched with an exhibition and symposium focusing on still and moving imagery in Kuwait City in 2023. The inaugural event will explore ideas associated with ‘Land’ and ‘People’ and the interconnectedness between space/place and inhabitation/culture.“
October 2022
Launch of Nightshade: a photobook published by noted art book publishers M.33, designed by Kim Mumm Hansen and supported by donors through the Australian Cultural Fund. Available from M.33.
“‘Nightshade’ is a restrained and poetic exploration of a particularly difficult and confronting subject – domestic violence and coercive control. Wendy Catling examines her mother’s experiences during her 20-year relationship with Catling’s father.
The publication which traverses the many addresses lived at by the artist and her parents and uses a mixture of archival and contemporary imagery interspersed with brief snatches of memories related by Catling’s mother, has been sensitively designed by Kim Mumm Hansen to form a darkly moving and compelling personal narrative with universal resonance.”
ISBN: 978-0-6482588-5-8
280 x210 mm
192 pp
Exposed section sewn soft cover,
Edition of 150
$50 (plus gst in Australia)
March 2021
I have contributed an essay to a new book, Enough, for Melbourne University’s Centre of Visual Art (CoVA).
“This publication was conceived on March 15, 2021, when more than one hundred thousand people marched across Australia in a series of March 4 Justice protests calling for gender equality and justice for victims of sexual assault. While these protests were motivated by anger at the lack of response by the Australian federal government to current and historic rape allegations, they were part a larger global movement that was gathering momentum. Edited by Vikki McInnes and designed by Kim Mumm Hansen, Enough: Artists and writers on gendered violence comprises creative responses to the issues highlighted in these protests. Responses are subjective, poetic, cathartic, and as fiercely political and deeply personal as the issues they address.”
224 pages, 22 x 14.5 cm, cold glue bind, softcover with flap, Perimeter Editions x CoVA at the University of Melbourne (Melbourne).
