Wendy Sharpe’s work is exuberant, boldly traversing the celebratory and unjust with equal parts candour and splendour. In this original screenprint, she imagines lovers entwined – they twist together in the artist’s studio, flurries of passion and creativity.

Sharpe catapulted to fame in 1996 when she won the Archibald Prize with a self-portrait, a first for a female artist. In 1999 she was posted to East Timor as the first female official war artist since the Second World War and in 2003 won the prestigious Portia Geach Memorial Prize in 2003. In August 2024, she was honoured with a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales titled ‘Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound’.

A limited edition screenprint produced with master printmaker Malcolm King, this work is a vestige of Sharpe’s infectious joie de vivre. It is sensual, confident and keenly felt, an emboldening find for collectors of Sharpe, female artists and the love in your life.

Wendy SHARPE (1960 - )
'Two Models' 2004-05
screenprint on paper
Image Size: 51 x 38 cm
Signed: Numbered, titled, signed lower right W.sharpre. Bottom of margin inscribed: AP1 for Malcom.
Comes with Letter of Provenance

This work comes from a series of screenprints published with master printmaker Malcom King in 2004-05. The colour separations were direct photo-stencil exposures from hand painted film using bitumen paint, aerosol, acrylic paint and gouache. All of the separations were created in Sharpe's St. Peters studio in Sydney. Each edition was printed with Matisse M22 print pasted and structure acrylic paint on a tined gesso background. 

Condition: Excellent

(c) Wendy Sharpe / Copyright Agency