About
Wednesday Sutherland (b. 1992) is an independent arts worker, curator and artist living and working in Muloobinba/Newcastle, AU. Throughout her artistic and curatorial practice is a focus on the crossover between analogue processes and contemporary technologies. Her largely photomedia-based work is often iterative and autobiographical, exploring personal and historical notions of memory, grief and loss. Wednesday is an active member of WHIP Collective, a group of women-identifying professional photographers in the Hunter region. Currently working freelance, she has previously held positions at Runway Journal, Gadigal Land/Sydney, and The Lock-Up, Newcastle. Wednesday holds a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Visual Arts) with Distinction, University of Newcastle.
Education
2021 Bachelor of Creative Industries (Visual Arts) with Distinction, University of Newcastle
Publications, talks + projects
2024 DATA MINDS, The Lock-Up, Newcastle [Curator]
2024 back & forth, Newcastle Art Space [Curatorial mentee]
2023 Host: artist talk, SMILE: Heath Nock. Wester Gallery, Newcastle [livestreamed]
2023 Host: artist talk, Confluence: Chris Brown. Onwards Studios, Newcastle
2023 We Are, WHIP Collective, Paste-up/banner project produced between The Lock-Up, Newcastle Art Gallery. This project was funded by the City of Newcastle Special Business Rate grant.
2022 Making Pictures, The Creator Incubator, Newcastle [Curator]
2022 Y2C zine (interviewee), issue 02, Newcastle Art Gallery Youth Advisory Group [print & online]
2021 International Women's Day, panel presenter, Newcastle Art Gallery
2020 COLLECT, The Lock-Up, Newcastle [Curator]
2019 Spirit World Rising, limited edition zine, self-published
2018 A Nice Place to Stop production assist / location scout / stills photography / PR and grants assist, HIBALL Productions, Coffs Harbour
2017 Nambucca photo essay Altair Zine [online]
2017 Tewinga photo essay Altair Zine [online]
2016 Banksia Boys photo essay, Sukeban [online]
2016 Banksia Boys stills photography / production assist, Alexandra Kirwood, Phillip Island
2014 Little Scout, Hessian Magazine, Melbourne
2014 Fancies, fantasies & imaginings poetry/photobook with Simmons (Aaron Loughland), self-published
Group exhibitions
2024 Summer Salon, Straitjacket, Newcastle
2024 Stories of Light: WHIP Collective, Watt Space, Newcastle
2023 COLLECT, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2023 Mistress, Blackstone Gallery, Newcastle
2022 Blue, Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle Lighthouse
2022 Hunter Emerging Art Prize, Newcastle Art Space
2022 COLLECT, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2022 Making Pictures, The Creator Incubator, Newcastle
2021 Art in your community: WHIP Collective, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie
2021 Dawn, Leda Gallery, Newcastle
2021 COLLECT, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2021 Arrival: WHIP Collective, Newcastle Art Space
2021 Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2020 WINNER: Photomedia, Newcastle Emerging Art Prize, Newcastle Art Space
2020 Zeitgeist, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle Art Space
2020 COLLECT, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2019 Spirit World Rising, Suspension, Newcastle
2019 Objectify, Watt Space, Newcastle
2019 Fused, Watt Space, Newcastle
2019 @RTJAM$, Between the Lines, Newcastle
2018 Australiche botschaft, Workroomfive, Cottbus, DE
2018 #3000_WORDS, Head On Photo Festival, Watt Space, Newcastle
2017 Moving Visions, FORT HEART CO, Loop Bar, Melbourne
2017 Three Page Story, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle Art School
2016 Independent Photography Festival (IPF), The Good Copy, Melbourne
2016 Two Hands One Finger, The Edwards, Newcastle
2010 Into Dark, Suspension, Newcastle
2010 WINNER - Photomedia Mayhem, ArtHIVE, Newcastle
2009 Modesty, Suspension, Newcastle