Cindy Wider

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Biography

Cindy Wider was born in Brisbane Queensland Australia 1968 (as Cindy White). She grew up in Papua New Guinea then at the age of 11 years Cindy returned with her parents and siblings to live in Australia.

She began to engage in a full time arts practice in Port Lincoln South Australila at the age of 23 then moved to Queensland in 2002 where she met and married her husband Stuart Wider (also an artist.)

Cindy was short-listed for the Wayne Kratzmann Art Award in 2011 and her artwork was included in ‘Connection’ a touring exhibition of the 2011 Queensland Regional Art Awards. This exhibition was curated by Michele Helmrich (Senior Curator, University of Queensland Art Museum) and was shown at the State Library of Queensland in 2012.

She was selected as one of twelve artists for the ABC open and Queensland Arts Council project ‘Artist by Artist’ in 2011 and a documentary was created about her artwork. Her most recent solo touring exhibition titled “Rolling Hills of White Flat – the reality and fantasy of life on the land from a feminine perspective” was very well received at the prestigious Outback Regional Gallery Waltzing Matilda Centre Winton, Queensland.

In 2013 Cindy moved with her husband and two young daughters to live in West Yorkshire England, United Kingdom where she now lives and works as a full time artist and art curriculum designer. She is represented by Porterfield’s Fine Art in Florida for licensing her images onto home décor products and as a Fine artist by Sherlon Gerard in Los Angeles.

Cindy is also an author of art education books and manuals and has written four soft cover books as well as 37 E-books which form the ‘Complete Drawing and Painting Certificate Course.’ This course is presented as a fully supported internet based art curriculum with her own personally trained team of professionals who teach the course at several websites including her own.

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