Biografia
Wendy Elia works in series which explore the social and broader contexts of our times. In her portrait work she often confronts our voyeurism and asks questions about painting’s relationship to authenticity and illusion; Elia moves from the personal to the political not only in the range of content and form but within individual paintings. Wendy Elia’s paintings have always focused on the contemporary socio-cultural contexts in which we operate: the half-naked women in confrontational poses that defy voyeurism and subvert the traditional role of the female nude; the taboo ageing female body seen in minute, unflinching detail; windows onto sixties' tower blocks and ill-lit alleys from a home on the wrong side of the tracks; she also bears witness to the images oft public hangings and other iconic images that circulate endlessly as infotainment;(Marie-Anne Mancio 2012)
