Bio – Wendy Aldiss
Photographer Wendy Aldiss was born in Oxford, UK and studied photography at Trent Polytechnic. Her interest is in people and the human condition/experience. Her work is influenced by the people around her and key stages in life. Wendy’s images include the portrayal of people themselves through environmental portraits, and the depiction of emotions and experiences.
Wendy works in film as well as digital. She was nominated for RPS 100 Heroines in 2018 and in 2022 shortlisted for the Photo London Nikon Emerging Photographer Award. Wendy was nominated for the Prix Pictet this year. Awarded an Arts Council DYCP Grant in 2022 Wendy is exploring photo encaustic as a medium.
Wendy has been Photographer in Residence at the Radcliffe Infirmary hospital, Oxford, documented the Banbury Stockyard and worked with Oxford’s mental health charity, Restore, creating work and running workshops and has run workshops with other artists at the Elizabeth Fry charity.
Wendy is represented by the L A Noble Gallery in London
Exhibitions:
2023 Group show ‘Intersectional Matter: Waste’ Frome Photo Festival
2023 ‘My Father’s Things’ Photo Oxford Festival
2023 Group show ‘To The Sea’, Shutter Hub France
2023 Group show ‘Moods’ Ovada, Oxford
2023 Group show ‘Night Moods’ Shutter Hub online
2023 Group show ’24 Photography’ Soho Square, London
2022/23 Group show ’Salon’ Photofusion, London
2022 ‘My Father’s Things’ Eastern Fantasy, A Metaverse, China, the Metaverse
2022 Group show Head On Festival Sydney, Australia
2022 Group show Bath Photo Festival ‘Evidence’
2022 Photo London (L A Noble Gallery)
2022 Group show ‘Oxford Through Our Eyes’ Oxford
2022 Group show ‘Ways of Seeing Green’ Dulwich
2022 Group show Cafe Royal Books Bristol
2022 Group show ‘Arts Lab 14’ Banbury
2022 Group show ’24 Photography’ London
2021 Group show Gallery 1885 ‘Here We Come’ London and Zagreb
2021 Group show ‘ArtsLab 14’ part of Oxford Photo Festival Oxford
2021 Group show Photofusion ‘Salon/21’ London
2021 Group show ‘Postcards from Great Britain’, various venues across Europe
2021 Group show Shutter Hub Yearbook, online
2021 Group show ’24 Photography’ London
2020 Group show Photo Oxford Festival Women AND Photography
2020 Group show FixPhoto Festival Still Life
2020 Online group show ‘Everyday Delight’ (Stay at Home Edition)London
2020 ‘Burma Veterans’ Gallery 1885 London
2020 Group show ‘24 Photography’ London
2020 Group Show ‘Postcards from Great Britain’, Haarlem, Netherlands
2020 Group show ‘Occupy the Void’ at Photo 50, London
2019 Group show ‘Photofusion Salon ‘19’ London
2019 Group show ‘Home’ Usk, Wales
2019 Group show ‘Time to Think’ Festival Pil’ours, France
2019 Group show ‘Seven counties Open Arts’ Oxford
2019 Group show ‘Everything I ever learnt’ University of Cambridge
2019 Group show ‘Oxford Open Arts’ Oxford
2019 Group show ‘Chromantics’ Didcot, Oxon
2018 Group show ‘Borders’ Bridewell Theatre, London
2018 Group show ‘Because We Can’ Festival Pil’ours, France
2017-18 ‘Burma Veterans: Unforgettable’, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire
2017 ‘Burma Veterans: Unforgettable’ Peterborough
2017 ‘N4 Stories’, Park Theatre, London
2017 Group show ‘Shutter Hub Open’ Edinburgh
2016 ‘Burma Veterans: Unforgettable’ The Army and Navy Club, London
2016 Group show ‘Foto Biennale salon’ Berlin
2014, 2016 – 2019 Group show ‘24 Photography’ London
2014 – 2018 Group show ‘Salon’ Photofusion, London
2012 Group show ‘Together’ Art Jericho, Oxford
2012 Group show ‘Street photography (Paris)’ part of London Street Photography Festival
2012 Group show ‘Cork Street annual open’ London.
1996 ‘A Picture of Health‘ University of Oxford
1996 ‘A Picture of Health‘ British Medical Association, London
1994 ‘Stockyard’, Banbury Museum, Banbury
1993 ‘Installation’ Oxford
Media:
Forces TV 2016
Radio Verulam Outspoken 2016
BBC Sport 2015
Radio Oxford 1996
Articles:
Shutter Hub Year Book 2020
Square Magazine
Daily Telegraph
Black and White Photography
Internationales Jahbruch der Fotographie
Marie Claire
Sunday Mail (Scotland)
Oxford Times