In WENDY SHARPE: MANY LIVES, journalist Elizabeth Fortescue tells Sharpe’s story from her beginnings as a shy child on Sydney’s northern beaches to her current position as one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. Art critic John McDonald discusses how Sharpe’s international travels have inspired her art. Senior curator Justin Paton focuses on Sharpe’s fascination with light and dark, both metaphorical and actual. Drawing specialist Anne Ryan teases out the role of drawing in Sharpe’s overall practice. Journalist and writer Scott Bevan vividly recalls travelling with Sharpe when she was an Australian official war artist. And journalist and author Stephanie Wood brings an observant eye to Sharpe’s practical humanitarianism.