In times of environmental crisis, the proliferation of plastics, and the mass extinction of animal and plant species, EXIT #98 proposes a look beyond the artistic and aesthetic at an openly domestic and widespread phenomenon: the current proliferation of artificial reproductions of global flora, and how this also affects photographic … Continue Reading
New & Upcoming
Wendy McMurdo joins the Patricia Fleming Gallery
‘We are delighted to announce the representation of the Scottish artist Wendy McMurdo.
Dr Catriona McAra describes McMurdo’s practice as ‘subtly site-specific’ with a ‘shimmery tilt into the marvellous’. Over the last four decades McMurdo has been exploring the intersection between autographic photography and the digital image.
Two bodies of work by … Continue Reading
Dior Commission
In 2024, I was commissioned by Dior to produce a portfolio of new work responding to their 2025 Cruise Collection. This collection was designed by Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri and inspired by Mary Queen of Scots, female empowerment and Scottish culture.
The commission was inspired by the Scottish topiary … Continue Reading
If Not Now, When?
IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Christine Borland, Michele Fletcher, Wendy McMurdo
Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow
‘If Not Now, When?’ Is an invitation to explore the work of three established women artists, Christine Borland, Michele Fletcher and Wendy McMurdo. Together they remind … Continue Reading
Silent Archive 2024
I am exhibiting new work commissioned by the RBGE Creative as part of Silent Archive curated by Emma Nicholson.
‘Pollinators’ was shot in situ in the glasshouses of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and shown for the first time here as part of a major group show exploring the social, economic … Continue Reading
Fledglings
‘Fledglings is a project funded by Museums Galleries Scotland as part of ‘The Wild Escape’ supported by Art Fund. The project is inspired by work from our extensive collection; an archive of prints cataloguing the evolution of Scottish Art since Edinburgh Printmakers’ inception in 1967. Our collection contains a fascinating … Continue Reading
L’Enfance dans la collection Agnès b
The Somnambulist (1995) is shown as part of L‘Enfance dans la collection Agnès B at La Fab, Paris from 24th Feb – 30th June 2022.
Death to Screens! 10 Years of the Media Wall, Photographers’ Gallery, London
‘As the Media Wall gasps its last pixelated breaths, selected works from its 10 years of life will flash across its screen at the Photographers’ Gallery from 11th January – 23rd February 2022. Collectively these projects explore themes of identity, representation and commodification from the aftermath of Web 2.0 to … Continue Reading
Chat Room screens as part of the 2021 Shanghai Photofair’s Insights Exhibition
Chat Room (2019) was included as part of curator Hining Ye’s ‘Imaging our Futures‘ exhibit for the Insights programme at the 2021 Shangahi Photofair (3-6th Nov).
PRESS RELEASE
‘Imaging Our Futures featured the works of twelve brilliant artists and collectives include Discipula (Italy), Fernando Montiel Klint (Artbaena, Mexico), Shun Li (China), Wendy … Continue Reading
Computer Class i & ii included in ‘Nachbilder – Eine Foto Text Anthologie’
Computer Class i & ii – acquired for the Foto Museum collection from the show Unheimlich curated by Urs Stahel are included in the 2021 publication ‘Nachbilder – Eine Foto Text Anthologie’ published by Spector Press.
What is photography? Can the question be explored using literary means? When the … Continue Reading
Dark Toys – surrealism and the culture of childhood David Hopkins, Yale Books 2021
David Hopkins Dark Toys – surrealism and the culture of childhood, including the coda ‘The Toy’s Disappearance. A Note on Wendy McMurdo’ is published by Yale Books in March 2021.
‘We all have memories of the object-world of childhood. For many of us, playthings and images from those days continue to … Continue Reading
New work commissioned for Florilegium – a gathering of flowers, Inverleith House (16th Oct – 13th Dec 2020)
A new commissioned work entitled ‘Night Garden’ was shown as part of Florilegium – a gathering of flowers’ at Inverleith House.
Florilegium was curated by Emma Nicholson and is the inaugural biennial exhibition marking the re-opening of Inverleith House at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh. It marks Inverleith House’s new status … Continue Reading