Wendy Dixon-Whiley – Oblique Strategies
Adelaide Fringe 2022
February 18 – April 5, 2022
Exhibition Launch Saturday February 19 at 6-8pm
Guest Opening Speaker Melissa DeLaney, CEO of ANAT
The Adelaide Hills will be the location of a completely immersive augmented reality (AR) experience. The walls will be covered in the mind-bending creations from the brain of Visual Artist Wendy Dixon-Whiley and the art itself will ‘come alive’ through the use of AR technology in a way that the Adelaide Hills has not seen before. Dixon-Whiley will dazzle the senses and create a visual art experience to remember. The exhibition promises to bring the buzz, novelty and fun of the Adelaide Fringe Festival to the Adelaide Hills in an exhibition with a new ‘twist’ that incorporates AR technology. Be prepared to have your reality turned upside down at The Hahndorf Academy.
BIO:
Wendy Dixon-Whiley is a Visual Artist working in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. With a Bachelor of Illustration Design and Master of Visual Art and Creative Practice, Wendy has participated in multiple group and solo exhibitions in Australia and overseas. Wendy is most often found working from her studio at the Hahndorf Academy in South Australia. She is best known in the Adelaide Hills for her large-scale street art projects and her works are held in private collections in Australia and internationally.
Wendy Dixon-Whiley’s energetic but considered works are executed in multiple mediums and scales as she works to find the best modes of expressing an internal visual universe of figures, marks and symbols. Tracing her influences back to 80’s street art as well as graphic illustrative styles from 90’s popular culture, Dixon-Whiley domesticates at times dark social themes through absurd and nonsensical forms. Her practice incorporates drawing, painting, installation and experimental methods to bring these ideas to life. Dixon-Whiley distils her imagery through a process of working with unbroken and unhesitating mark-making through to more detailed, illustrative works.
