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.