My dream destinations: Wendy Sharpe, artist

MY ONE DREAM DESTINATION IS STILL

Paris. I own an apartment in Montmartre with my partner, Bernard Ollis. We usually spend about a third of each year there. I miss it so much. I recognise this is probably the definition of a first world problem. I first visited in 1987, in my mid-20s, after winning the Sulman Prize, a Marten Bequest Travelling Art Scholarship and a three-month residency at the Art Gallery of New South Wales studio at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. It was so wonderful to be working in a studio in central Paris and have a pass to visit museums, which I did constantly. Seeing paintings "in the flesh" was a revelation.

WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER I'M DREAMING OF VISITING

Due to the pandemic, I have had to cancelled or postpone trips to Sicily, Uganda and also Shanghai, where I was due to present a major exhibition. I am obsessed with travel and always have a long list of destinations in mind. Right now, I am dreaming of visiting Moldova. In 2019, I went on a family research trip to the Ukraine and the trail led me to Moldova. I would have gone there last year. I am painting a long ephemeral wall mural about this at Sydney Jewish museum in July.

MY DREAM TRAVEL BUBBLE DESTINATION IS

New Zealand. I was just recently in Wellington. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is so wonderful that I spent a whole day there. I also loved the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden – the 1888 home of the internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer.

MY DREAM DOMESTIC DESTINATION IS

I have been invited to go on a Southern Lights Aurora Australis flight with Chimu Adventures. I am lucky to have had two artist residencies in Antarctica and am fascinated by auroras.