‘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 McMurdo were included in our recent exhibition ‘If Not Now, When?’, 2024. ‘The Pollinators’ and ‘The Radical Road’ each used post-photographic processes and new technologies to reference overlooked political histories. We cannot wait to weave more of her practice into our programme.

Wendy McMurdo was born in Edinburgh where she studied fine art painting. She left the UK in the mid-1980s to study at the Pratt Institute, in New York. While studying there, she turned to photography. After completing an MA at Goldsmiths College, London, she was awarded a two-year fellowship by The Henry Moore Foundation. In 1993, she produced her first major solo exhibition ‘In a Shaded Place – The Digital and the Uncanny’, Site Gallery Touring, UK which saw her working for the first time with the computer, creating a series of works that explored the intersection between autographic photography and the digital image.’

Upcoming exhibitions:
May – Oct 2026: We Are All Unique And Beautiful But Together We Are A Masterpiece Wendy Mcmurdo – Collected Works On Childhood. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

June-Aug 2026: Flower Power: The Politics Of Flowers, Alice Austen House Museum New York

Contact gallery@patricia-fleming.com for further information.

https://www.patricia-fleming.com/Artists/wendy-mcmurdo