Artwork for Wendy Healey
Perched
Surfacing-detail
Wolf
Surfacing
Sophia- wisdom
Janus- goddess of duality
Artemis
Atargatis
Details
The physicality and emotional impact of my surroundings guides my practice. Sensory associations with my birthplace Vancouver lying between the mountains and ocean, memories of my feral childhood in the Midlands countryside and my experiences as a mother and child psychotherapist living in rural Herefordshire permeates my artwork.
My current making explores relationships between environment, body and mind through materiality. I question and reflect on what it is to be human -through themes of transformation and emergence.
Gathering disparate natural and manufactured materials such as debris, mud, brambles, bark, muslin, clay, plastic … imbued with memories, emotions, thoughts, dreams I intuitively follow their sensual rhythm. Re- energised sculptural forms and non-forms emerge with a life of their own. Our surroundings form us, make us what and who we are psychologically, emotionally, socially and physically. My sculptures and paintings occupy a liminal slippery place between our internal unconscious and external conscious worlds.
Being an artist means exploration and discovery-creating interactive stimulating artwork that encourages curiosity and reflection to explore our internal and external landscapes
Artist/Sculptor. Inspiration for my practice lies in my surroundings and within me. I gather natural and manufactured materials imbued with memory, emotion, myths, dreams and intuitively follow their sensory rhythm to create.
Re-energised sculpted 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional pieces emerge with a life of their own reflecting on what it is to be human through transformation and emergence.
Sharing my practice by exhibiting individually and part of collectives at local and national exhibitions. Being an active member of a range of local national and international collectives. Through collaboration with fellow artists I have participated and run workshops , attended residencies and exhibited locally nationally and internationally.
Workshop: organic sculpting
Published work:
In-between, Wendy Healey, (2022), OCA EdgeZine magazine: Identity Issue no12- winter/spring edition (2021/22). Available at: indd.adobe.com p112.
Healey Wendy, Gaia (2023. pp120-21) 101 contemporary artists and more, Collect Art. Tibilisi Georgia, Volume 2. 2023
Healey Wendy Artargatis ( (9 January - 8 February 2025) Friends Exhibition Catalogue RBSA Birmingham.U.K. p35
1988 B SocSc (Hons) Political Science, Birmingham University. U.K.
1990 M SocSc, Birmingham University. U.K.
2000 Accredited Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), London. U.K.
2022 First Class BA (Hons) Painting Degree, Open College of Arts (OCA), Barnsley. U.K.
Annual Open Exhibition,( 8 January- February 26 2022), The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy, Wales. U.K
‘In-Between’ Wendy Healey, solo Exhibition showcasing BA (Hons) Degree with Open College of Arts, (OCA), (April 28-May 14 2022) Direct Action Art UK (DAA) Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. U.K.
Layers, (April 28- June 1 2022), Take 4 Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire. U.K.
Friends Open all Media Exhibition, (11 January- 10 February 2024), RBSA, Birmingham.U.K.
Wendy Healey’s studio/ sculpture garden, Open Studios herefordshire art week h.Art, (3-11 September 2022) Hereford U.K.
Annual Open Exhibition,( 8 January- 26 February 2024), The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy, Wales. U.K.
Curious Space: Transitions in Landscape (9-20 July 2024), Willesden Gallery London.UK.
Open Studios St Mary’s Church Ross-on-Wye, herefordshire art week h.Art, (7-15 September 2024) Hereford U.K.
Friends Open all Media Exhibition (9 January - 8 February 2025) RBSA Birmingham.U.K
