Wendy Sutherland was born in Brora, east Sutherland in 1975.  In 1997 she graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with First Class Honours, becoming a Master of Fine Arts two years later.  Since 1998 she has held six one-person exhibitions in the United Kingdom and Canada, including art.tm, Inverness (2000), Transit Gallery, Hamilton, Canada (2001), Artifex Gallery, Birmingham (2001), and Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland (2005).  Over this period she has also participated in some 35 group exhibitions, including Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (1997), Highlands and Islands Open (1998), Atkinson Gallery, Somerset (1998), McLellan Galleries, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art (1999), Timespan, Helmsdale (2004) and Stenton Gallery, East Lothian (1999-2005).  Wendy Sutherland is the recipient of some ten art awards including Queens Anniversary (1995/96), Landscape Award, The Royal Scottish Academy (1998), Judges Commendation, Highland Open (1998), Awards to Artists, Highlands and Islands Arts and Scottish Arts Council (2001) and Convenor’s Prize, Highland Open (2004).  Since 1999 Sutherland has undertaken public commissions for four venues, including Edinburgh International Conference Centre (1999) and UHI Millennium Institute (2005).  Now based once more in the village in east Sutherland where she was born, Wendy Sutherland has for some time identified as her primary goal an evolving interpretation of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands through a range of media and in this chosen field is already considered a leading figure. In March 2008 the artist was profiled in the Landward programme on BBC Television Scotland. Exhibitions with Francis Kyle Gallery in 2007 and 2009.

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