Waqeea Chaudhry

I am ethnically a Pakistani artist, living and working in Sydney. I am self-taught and enjoy painting landscapes and still life in oils. I allow my art practice to evolve in different directions as I discover new materials and ideas. In the past couple of years, I have been enjoying my discovery of beeswax as a painting medium and a lot of my recent work incorporates the heavy texture and subtle shifts of colour that working with wax allows.

I am inspired by how light transforms objects and people. Light and shadow are two important characters that populate my work. My paintings develop slowly, in layers of varying thickness and opacity. Each stage of work is instinctive, leading to, and determining, the next. In a meditative conversation between my work and myself, the end often arrives as a revelation.

I have travelled and lived for many years in Europe, the Middle East and Pakistan, so the influences in my work are varied and diverse.

2012
Diploma in Montessori Education, Montessori Centre International

1999
Masters in English Literature , University of the Punjab

1996
Bachelors Philosophy and English Literature , University of the Punjab

2023
CASS at the Royal, Lavender Bay Gallery

2023
CASS 32nd Annual 'Art of Sydney' Awards Exhibition, Prince Henry Centre

2023
Kuring-gai Art Society Autumn Exhibition, The Gallery, St. Ives Shopping Village

2022
Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre

2022
Kuring-gai Art Society Spring Exhibition, The Gallery, St. Ives Shopping Village

2022
To raise funds for floods in Pakistan, Gallery One62

2022
Kuring-gai Art Society Awards Exhibition, The Gallery, St. Ives Shopping Village

2022
Kuring-gai Art Society Autumn Exhibition, The Gallery, St. Ives Shopping Village

2021
Of Days Past (Solo Exhibition), Into-Arts Studio and Gallery

2021
The Valley 9x5 Art Show, Wyong Creek Hall, Yarramalong

2021
Kuring-gai Art Society Autumn Exhibition, The Gallery, St. Ives Shopping Village

2020
CAS 30th Annual Art of Sydney , Australian National Maritime Museum

2019
Fundraiser Auction for Indus Hospital, Karachi, Melbourne

2019
Kuring-gai Art Society Spring Exhibition, The Gallery at St. Ives Shopping Village

2019
How I See Kashmir, HalfCube Gallery

2019
The Valley 9x5 Art Show, Wyong Creek Hall, Yarramalong

2018
Kuring-gai Art Society Spring Exhibition, The Gallery, St. Ives Shopping Village

2018
Warm Colours, Kuring-...