Wendy McMurdo | The Digital Mirror
Sat 30 May 2026 – Sun 25 Oct 2026
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Working at the forefront of developments in digital photography, Wendy McMurdo: The Digital Mirror, charts 20-years of ground-breaking work by this pioneering photographer. McMurdo has blazed a trail in the experimental use of … Continue Reading
Link →Radical Botany: The Politics of Flowers
June 6th – August 22nd 2026
Alice Austen House, New York
Co-curated by Susan Bright and Hedy van Erp
Flowers have always been political. From the 1637 tulip market crash – history’s first speculative bubble – to today’s environmental crises, flowers reflect urgent economic, social, and ecological concerns. … Continue Reading
Link →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
‘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
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?
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
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 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
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.
‘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 (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 – 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