Prior to starting his artwork professionally, Wedge worked as a driver and fruit picker until he headed to Sydney to enrol at the Eora Centre for the Visual and Performing Arts.
[2] After graduating from the college he became a member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, exhibiting with contemporaries such as Ian Abdulla and Elaine Russell.
[citation needed] In 1992 he held a solo exhibition called Wiradjuri Spirit Man at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide as well as at Boomalli.
His powerful paintings operate seductively, enchanting the viewer with signature lyrical figures that he combines with arresting political statements.
[1] A monograph on Wedge's work, Wiradjuri Spirit Man, was published in 1996 by Art and Australia, with an introduction by Brenda L. Croft and an essay by Judith Ryan.