Wendy McMurdo
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Name
Wendy McMurdo
Job title
Artist and academic
About
Wendy McMurdo is a widely exhibited artist who has worked with some of the largest commissioning bodies in the UK. In 2018 she was named as one of the Hundred Heroines by The Royal Photographic Society, an initiative to showcase the best of global contemporary female photographic practice and reflect the amazing diversity of methodologies and approaches of different generations of women working within the medium. She specializes in photography and digital media and holds a doctorate by publication from University of Westminster for her photographic work exploring the impact of the computer on our collective identities. Her work is included in a number of major collections and has featured in a wide variety of exhibitions, including The Anagrammatical Body: The Body and its Photographic Condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Uncanny, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Only Make Believe curated by Marina Warner for Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK. In addition to her professional practice, she is an experienced educator.She has held academic posts at University of Dundee and Edinburgh Napier University and research posts at the ECPR, University of Wales, Newport and University of Southampton. She is a board member for Stills, the National Centre for Photography in Scotland and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Currently, she is a Module Leader on the MA programme at the Institute of Photography at Falmouth University, England.
Region
Edinburgh