Wendy Bliss

Based between her studios in South West London and South West France, Wendy Bliss is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher. Her practice spans drawing, printmaking, painting, and textile manipulation to investigate identity, ecological fragility, and the friction between surface beauty and uncomfortable truths. Her concept-driven work is deeply informed by an academic background in developmental psychology, a synthesis that earned her a shortlist spot for the Celeste Art Prize. An influential force in the arts community, she received the Guardian Civic Award for Arts and Entertainment for her curatorial impact, which includes co-founding the Merton Arts Trail and curating for the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability. Notably, she is the founder of "The Covid Chronicle" (2020), a monumental global textile installation equal in scale to the Bayeux Tapestry. Following a 2022 UK tour, the chronicle is currently exhibited at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, with permanent acquisition inquiries open to benefit the national mental health charity MIND alongside local grassroots mental health initiatives. Her unique creative vision is enriched by a diverse career trajectory. Her professional roots stretch from t...

Textiles Foundation Diploma, Morley College (2024).

BA (Hons) Theory and Practice of Fine Art and Design, Wimbledon School of Art (2006).

Foundation Diploma Art and Design, Central St Martins (2001)

BSc (Hons), French and Education (Majoring in developmental psychology); awarded Distinction for Art and Design complementary studies project, Aston University (1978)

Morley Gallery, London SE1. 'Manipulations' for Textiles Diploma Final Major Project Exhibition (6/2024

The Covid Chronicle at Williamson Gallery, Liverpool (11/2022 - 1/2023)
Spode Museum Stoke (11/2022)
Merton Priory Chapter House (9/2022)
Riverside Studios Hammersmith (8/ 2022)
Lightbox Woking (5-6 /2022)
Chippenham Museum Art Gallery (3-4/ 2022)
Sunbury Embroidery Gallery (2-3 2022)
Oxo Tower Bargehouse: London Ultra. (11/ 2019)
London/Rome/Paris/Barcelona: City/Città/Cité/Ciudad : Shades of a city. (9/2019)
Primal Spark (Solo Exhibition): Norman Plastow Gallery (9/2018)
Visually Literate ii Group show Menier Gallery, Southwark, SE1 (1/2018)
'The Selfie in Art', Norman Plastow Gallery (9/ 2017)
'Elements of Love' group exhibition, Menier Gallery, Southwark, SE1 (2/ 2017)
'Lost & Found' exhibition, London SW19 (9/ 2016)
'Landscapes', solo exhibition sponsor ASR (9/ 2015)
Curator: Public Trail event, lead by Painted Shoes, for Cricket Green School, Mitcham. Sponsored by Time and Leisure Magazine and Wimbledon Commons Committee (9/ 2015)
'Women in Landscape', solo exhibition, sponsors: Lidl, London (9/ 2014)
'Fashioning Textiles' Solo exhibition, Lingfield Road Gallery, London SW19 (10/2014)
'Emergence', new work to ...