Wendy McMurdo

Wendy McMurdo (1962) studied at the Pratt Institute in New York in the mid-1980s, where she first became interested in photography. She completed her M.A. at Goldsmiths College in London in 1993. In the mid-1990s she became particularly interested in digital media. With the assistance of a Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship, she produced a body of work called In a Shaded Place, which examined the impact of digital technologies on traditional representational photography. Subsequently, McMurdo developed a number of projects examining the interface between traditional and non-traditional forms. From 1995-2000, she developed a series of works which examined the ways in which technological developments in the bio-medical sciences affected our view of ourselves. She has been commissioned by the Science Museum in London and The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh in association with the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh. A number of her major projects were documented in 2001 by the Centre for Photography in Salamanca, Spain. Her work has been the subject of documentaries for BBC 2 and Channel 4 in the U.K. and is included in The British Library Sound Archive's Oral history of British Photography. She lives in Edinburgh where she is currently Fellow in Photography at Napier University.