Wendy Hubert

Wendy Hubert is a respected Yindjibarndi Elder, cultural custodian, artist and linguist. Born at Red Hill Station on Guruma Country, Wendy lived at Red Hill Station, Minderoo Station and Onslow before settling in Roebourne. Now a widow, Wendy met her husband in Roebourne through her work in community health and together they had three sons. Wendy began painting with Juluwarlu Art Group in 2019 and has become a dedicated artist known for her landscape paintings recounting scenes from her childhood and featuring important places on Yindjibarndi and Guruma Country. Wendy was selected for the 2023 Telstra NATSIAA and the 26th Sydney Biennale.  She has exhibited her artworks across Australia as well as her home state of WA, in the Pilbara and Perth including multiple Cossack Art Awards and Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists at Fremantle Arts Centre. In December 2024, with support from Creative Australia and Juluwarlu Arts, Wendy launched her Autobiography, to tell her incredible life story alongside a comprehensive retrospective of her paintings and notations. The great response to her book has inspired Wendy to continue creating and embark on new projects for 2025 and 2026. Diving deeper into her stories and developing new ideas with her art practice. Wendy will be reaching an international audience with a commission completed for the 2025 Japanese Triennial and designing a Pilbara garden project for the 2026 Sydney Biennale.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025, August, Wendy Hubert Fences, Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT

2024, August, Wendy Hubert, Ngurra Goonmardii (Country is Plentiful), Tactile Arts with Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, NT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026, February, 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory, Lewers, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney

2025, November, Aichi Triennale A time between Ashes and Roses, Aichi Art Centre Japan,

2025, October, Too Deadly Tarnanthi 10th Anniversary, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide SA

2025, June, Where We Come From, Form Gallery, Perth

2025, May, It's Always Been Always, Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre

2024, March, Represent: Aboriginal Figurative Practice in WA, Part 2, The Good Shed, Perth

2024, March, Ten Thousand Suns, The 24th Biennale of Sydney

2023, October, Colours of Our Country, A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto

2022, August, NATSIAA, Salon des Refuses

2022, March, Tracks We Share, Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia,

2022, February, Emergence, The Good Shed, Perth

2021, July, NGARDAMARRI, The Good Shed, Perth

2019, August, Colours of Our Country, A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto

2018, August, Colours of Our Country, A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto

2017, August, Colours of Our Country, A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto

COLLECTIONS

2026, Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia

2026, National Gallery of Victoria

2026, Art Bank

AWARDS

2019, Cossack Art Awards, Cossack

2020, Cossack Art Awards, Cossack

2021, Cossack Art Awards, Cossack

2020, NAIDOC Art Award, Heal Country, Epic, 3rd place

2023, Telstra NATSIAA Finalist

2024, National Emerging Artist Prize Winner Indigenous Category

2025, Telstra NATSIAA Finalist