Wendy Lessick Bookatz
Creator of narratives - Visual, textual & aural, on-screen, online & in print.
Fine art - on canvas, board & on paper.
Wendy first gained recognition after winning awards in the Waverley Art Prize and the Royal Easter Show. In recent years her work has explored darkness, confronting violence against women. In 2024 Wendy began creating works honouring the memory of her great-aunt Sarah Chaya Krikst, murdered during the pogroms in Lithuania (1917-1921).
2025, Wendy is now painting love. She is exhibiting in Oct-Nov 2025. Leonard Cohen’s words frame the exhibition “I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere”.
Education
SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY LISMORE AUSTRALIA 2012-2016
Bachelor of Media - Media Design major
Field Of Study - All media including graphics, photography, filmmaking, global media & marketing
WAVERLEY WOOLLAHRA ARTS CENTRE
Printmaking
Painting
CAPE TOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE SOUTH AFRICA
Graphic Design
BIRNAM BUSINESS COLLEGE Johannesburg, South Africa
Business studies
JOHANNESBURG SCHOOL OF ARTS SOUTH AFRICA
Fine and Studio Arts
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND SOUTH AFRICA
Fine and Studio Arts
Wendy immigrated from South Africa to Australia in 1987.