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Carla Wherby
Born 1962 in Parramatta, Carla Wherby is the youngest of twins. Graduated from the City Art Institute (now College of Fine Arts) with a BA (Visual Arts), exhibiting in joint exhibitions with her sister Lisa at Bondi Pavilion Exhibition Gallery and Russell Sharp Gallery until the mid 1980s. Carla recommenced her drawing work in 2006, winning First Prize in the Auburn Mayoral Art Prize in 2008. Since then she has exhibited in Buckingham House Another Door Opens, and the AART.BOX09 Accessible Arts run exhibition held at Stephen Mori Gallery, as well as winning the Inaugural Sizzle Festival Mentorship at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest in 2009.
No Right Turn Artist Statement
I am very interested in popular culture and pop art. I love all kinds of music and art. Art was always a form of expression & escapism for me. My main influences are artists Garry Shead and Martin Sharp as well as singer/actor/activist Jeannie Lewis. I have been lucky enough to meet these artists who I admire for the way they have incorporated political and social issues into their work as well as always being entertaining. This is my aim also.
I am currently working on a series of pen drawings on women and the discrimination and oppression they have faced historically through religion and social and economic structure (called Women’s Work). I read an article recently which stated that Australian women are still struggling for equal pay no matter what skills they possess. I was also inspired by an exhibition called Dripstone in Western Sydney by artists Naomi McCarthy and Catherine O’Donnell that alluded to issues that women faced in times of early Australian settlement. I have chosen to concentrate on biro art at the moment as it is extremely challenging and the detail involved requires patience and lots of time! The detail achieved in the pen gives an archival quality to the drawings. As I live in multicultural Auburn (a city with the highest number of refugees in Australia) I am interested in the hardships that these people have faced. Particularly the female immigrants and refugees. I then try & convey this multiculturalism & the extremities of life here in my art. I have quoted phrases from singer Helen Reddy’s iconic anthem I Am Woman in the drawing titles – a song that was co-written by her in the 70s - yet the march still goes on.
Artist CV
I am currently working on a series of pen drawings on women and the discrimination and oppression they have faced historically through religion and social and economic structure (called Women’s Work). I read an article recently which stated that Australian women are still struggling for equal pay no matter what skills they possess. I was also inspired by an exhibition called Dripstone in Western Sydney by artists Naomi McCarthy and Catherine O’Donnell that alluded to issues that women faced in times of early Australian settlement. I have chosen to concentrate on biro art at the moment as it is extremely challenging and the detail involved requires patience and lots of time! The detail achieved in the pen gives an archival quality to the drawings. As I live in multicultural Auburn (a city with the highest number of refugees in Australia) I am interested in the hardships that these people have faced. Particularly the female immigrants and refugees. I then try & convey this multiculturalism & the extremities of life here in my art. I have quoted phrases from singer Helen Reddy’s iconic anthem I Am Woman in the drawing titles – a song that was co-written by her in the 70s - yet the march still goes on.
Artist CV
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