Wendy Dixon
Born in 1990, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Creative director, designer and interdisciplinary artist, Wendy Dixon's work straddles between design and art, blending light, mirror sculptures and installations into immersive experiences. Her professional background in design allows her to bridge rich graphic narratives with rigorous spatial design.
Wendy opened her first business in Johannesburg in 2014. Her design studio, Dixon Design, specialises in conceptual branding, art direction & design for creative spaces. In 2017 Wendy and Jennifer Bradley co-founded Stay Evil Kids, launching the product design studio and their first collection of Dirty Mirrors at Missibaba, Keyes Art Mile. The series of double sided mirror sculptures explores duality and the incongruous materiality of mirror, glass, wood, stone and colour in two collections of work.
In 2017 after moving to Cape Town, Wendy and her 3 friends reintroduced Ladies, Wine & Design to the creative women of Cape Town. Ladies, Wine & Design is a global organisation started by Jessica Walsh in New York in 2016, that has chapters in over 250 cities all over the world. LW&D Cape Town is a registered non-profit that hosts a monthly salon series centred around connecting, supporting, and empowering all women, identifying and non-binary creatives across the city. LW&D is a space that is inclusive of all women, non-binary, agender and gender non-conforming people. The events take place in the form of workshops, dinners, mentorship circles, portfolio reviews, talks and creative meet ups in different venues every month all over Cape Town.
After the success of a The Four Doors installation at Spier Wine Estate at the end of 2018, Wendy and Caitlin formed their studio. The duo create perceptual questions around the themes of time, identity and spirit. They hope these questions create an embodied learning of self and soul in viewers.
Currently they are exhibiting work at the Zeitz MOCAA in an exhibition, Still Here Tomorrow to High Five you Yesterday, on until the end of September 2019. The pair will be travelling to Shanghai later this year as part of a residency programme with the KT Wong Foundation to exhibit works inspired by the staging of an opera entitled Semele, showing 9th and 10 November.