Born in Liverpool in 1948, Wendy Dison studied at Liverpool School of Art and Bristol Polytechnic between 1969 and 1974. She has travelled extensively, usually alone and usually off the beaten track. Wendy lived in Spain, Mexico and England before settling in West Cork in 1999. She now lives, and has a studio, in a traditional farmhouse on the slopes of Shehy Mountain. Wendy’s work starts with sketches. She often uses graphite in her work and drawing and line are important even in non-representational work. She is a printmaker as well as a painter and likes to combine disciplines and use mixed media.
Wendy has had solo exhibitions of paintings In County Cork, in Dublin, and in Liverpool.
Wendy is a member of Cork Printmakers and of Visual Artists Ireland.

Education
1969-72 Liverpool School of Art Diploma in Art and Design
1974-75 Bristol Polytechnic Diploma in Management Studies
1987-88 West Cheshire College Certificate in Adult Education
1990-92 Crewe College of Higher Education Postgraduate certificate in education

Printmaking courses
1996-97 Bluecoat School, Liverpool Etching
2000 David Kiely at Cork Printmakers Carborundum, spitbite and drypoint
2003 Santa Reparata, Florence, with Dan Weldon and Ron Pokrasso
Monotype and solar plate etching

Achievements
Painting commissioned for the Beatles Museum, Liverpool UK.
Work selected for cover of ‘Bird’s Nests and other poems’ by Michael MacCarthy, Bradshaw books 2003.
Work selected for front cover and illustrations of The Shop magazine
Commissioned print for Cork School of Music prize winners
Commissioned to produce illustrations for Streamscapes, published by Coomhola Salmon Trust
Illustrator for Latin American Travel guides
Photographs selected for archive collection of Tibetan culture in London
Travel writing and articles published

Selected Exhibitions
2010 Blue Wall gallery, Cavan
Umbrella Studio, Queensland, Australia
2009 The Brindley, Runcorn SOLO
The Tricycle, Kilburn, London SOLO
The Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, Co Cork, Ireland
Eigse Carlow Arts Festival
2008 Blackburne House, Liverpool SOLO
Eigse Carlow Arts Festival
10 Impressions, The Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, Co Cork
2007 ‘Stone Ghosts’ The Hallward Gallery Dublin SOLO
Impressions Galway Arts Centre
2006 ‘Home Places’ Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere SOLO
‘Ireland-St.Petersburg’ Nabokov Museum, St.Petersburg
2005 Gallery Artists Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere
Greyfriars Open Waterford.
Eigse Carlow
Limerick Printmakers Open, selected by Siobhan Piercy.
PrintPlus Schull, West Cork.
C2: 1995-2005 Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
2004 Continuity Waterford Treasures Museum
Compact Prints 2004 Umbrella Studio, Australia
Impressions Galway Arts Centre
Feast, West Cork Craft and Design Guild. National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
2003 Eight Printmakers Inspirations Contemporary Art
Greenwich, London, UK
Cork Printmakers, New works 2003, selected by John Shinnors. Touring 5 venues
2002 New Artists, New Works. Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere
Improvisations. Bantry House
2001All The Best From The Guild. West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen
2000 In Pursuit of Excellence Court House, Bantry

Collections; O.P.W.; A.I.B.; Earthborn/Gordon Products; Quinlan Private; Bantry General Hospital.

Residencies; Cill Rialaig. Tyrone Guthrie Centre. West Cork Arts Centre (artist in residence)

Wendy’s work is included in private collections in Canada, U.S.A, U.K., Malta, Germany, France and Ireland, and is in the following galleries:
The Hallward Gallery, Dublin; Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere ;
The Original Print Gallery, Dublin; The Lavit Gallery, Cork; Davern and Bell, Limerick; Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Llanbedrog, UK

Wendy is represented by The Hallward and Mill Cove Gallery.

Wendy Dison
Gortloughra
Kealkil
Bantry
Co Cork
Ireland
+353 (0)27 66363