Education
2009 Master of Fine Arts by Research with First Class Honours, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
Thesis topic – The Museum of Lost Worlds Presents: Reconstructed Artefacts from the Island of Tana Swiwi
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Intermedia), Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Higher thinking, the Vivian Gallery, Matakana
Higher Thought Forms, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland
2017 Levitation Practice: Lesson two, Artists Alliance, Art Week Auckland
2016 Levitation Practice, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2014 The Ceremonial Processions of Dreamers, Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Of Masters and Spirits, Fort Delta Gallery and Creative Space, Melbourne
2012 The Antarctic Kingdom of Gondwanaland, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne
2011 The Antarctic Kingdom of Gondwanaland, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2010 Escape into the Void, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Tana Swiwi, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
The Book of Levitation, collaboration with Sergei Ignatievsky, Twentybythirty Miniature Gallery
2009 Swi Gunting, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Artefacts from the Island of Tana Swiwi, Jatiwangi Art Factory, West Java, Indonesia
2007 Passports to Forgotten Realms, Bus Gallery, Melbourne. Design collaboration with Faisal Habibi
2006 Flying for Dummies, Blindside gallery, Melbourne
Ticket Booth, Twentybythirty Miniature Gallery, Melbourne
Museum of Lost Worlds and the Kingdom of Wandaland, West Space gallery, Melbourne
2005 The Sculpture of Flying Dreams, Bus gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, Te Kōputu a Te Whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand
2019 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
Rites of Passage, Gympie Regional Gallery, Queensland
Auckland Art Fair, Vivian Gallery Pop Up, Hotel Grand Windsor, Auckland
Sculpture on the Gulf, Small Sculpture exhibition, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Auckland
Owhango Summer Sculpture Show, Owhango, Tongariro
Sculpture in the Gardens (indoor exhibition), Auckland Botanical Gardens, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 Sculpture on the Shore, Fort Takapuna, Auckland
The Vivian Summer show, Vivian Gallery, Matakana
Disrupt, Whitespace Gallery, Auckland
This Wild Song, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne
Sampler, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland
Unseen, Unknown, Unveiled, Uxbridge, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland
One on One, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
This Wild Song, Gallery Smith, Melbourne
2017 I Was Here, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth
Sculpture in the Gardens, Auckland Botanical Gardens, Auckland, New Zealand
National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Gallery, Melbourne
Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Auckland, (Runner up award)
2016 Sculpture on the Shore, Small Sculpture Exhibition, Auckland, New Zealand
Seeker (Kai) Figure, Gearbox Gallery, Melbourne Grammar, Melbourne
Figure, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
Melbourne Art Week, MARS Gallery at the Supper Club, Melbourne
Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Small Sculpture exhibition, Wye River Hotel, Wye River, VIC
Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Melbourne
2015 Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
A Little Something, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
The 24th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand and touring exhibition Pataka Art and Museum, Wellington, and Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville
2014 McClelland Sculpture Prize, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, VIC
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Gallery, Melbourne
Animalia, Lindberg Gallery, Melbourne
Tropaeum, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth
New, Lindberg Gallery, Melbourne
Scratching Surfaces, Czech and Slovak Film Festival, Yarra Gallery Federation Square, Melbourne
Christina's World, Fort Delta Gallery and Creative Space, Melbourne
Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Small Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne Uniting Church, VIC
2013 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne
2012 John Fries Memorial Prize, Gaffa Galleries, Sydney
The Wilson Visual Art Award, Trinity Catholic College, Lismore
Deakin Small Sculpture Prize, Deakin University Gallery, Melbourne
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2011 Blake Prize, Directors Cut Exhibition
2010 Sports Club Project 1, No Risk Too Great, Next Wave Festival 2010, Melbourne
2009 Blake Prize, Directors Cut Exhibition
Wallace Trust Art Awards, Wallace Trust Gallery, Auckland
Post, Place Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne
Order/ Disorder, C3 Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Lots of People Have What You Have, George Patton Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Proposition 4 Proposition, C3 Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Rumble in the City, Bus Vs Blindside, City Library, Melbourne
2007 I am Afraid, Uber Gallery, Melbourne
The 22nd Asian International Art Exhibition - Imagining Asia, Selasar Sunaryo, Bandung, Indonesia
Fictitious Realities, Soemardja Galleri, Bandung, Indonesia
Too Near Too Far, Care of Gallery, Milan
2005 National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Grants, Awards and Residencies
2020 Creative New Zealand Arts Continuity Grant – Funding to create a public sculpture
Creative New Zealand Arts Grant – Funding to attend a specialist woodcarving school in Austria
2017 Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize – Runner Up
2015 Darebin Art Prize – Highly Commended
2014 ARTAND Australia Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award - Winner
Lorne Sculpture Biennale Artist in Schools Residency
Artspace Residency, Sydney (selected but was unable to take up the residency)
2013 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant
City of Melbourne Arts Project Grant
2012 Art Gallery of NSW, Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris Residency
2011 Arts Victoria Arts Development Grant
2010 Australian Arts Council Artstart Grant
Jump Mentorship Program
2009 Victorian College of the Arts Vulcan Steel Tutorship Award
2008 Arts Victoria Cultural Exchange Grant
Victorian College of the Arts Anthony Ganim Postgraduate Award
Victorian College of the Arts Vulcan Steel Merit Award
2007 Asialink Residency Indonesia
2006 City of Melbourne Youth Arts Funding
2005 National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Prize Finalist
2003 Auckland University Access Award
Elam School of Fine Arts Intermedia Technicians Award
2002 Auckland University Final Year Grant
Teaching and Professional Activities
2019 Artist talk and abacus making workshop, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
Artist talk and abacus making workshop, Gympie Regional Gallery, Queensland
Panel discussion, Rites of Passage exhibition, Gympie Regional Gallery, Queensland
2018 Thrive Mastermind member
Artist talk, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Uxbridge Arts Centre
2017 Private woodcarving tuition from home studio/workshop (ongoing)
Artist talk, Art Week Auckland
Artist talk and sculpture tours, Sculpture in the Gardens
Artist talk and panel discussion, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth
2014 Artist talk, Lorne Sculpture Biennale
2011 Artist talk, Craft Victoria Gallery
2010 Teaching Position, Sculpture and Spatial Practice, Victorian College of the Arts
Co-curator Artland, Moreland City Council and RMIT University Public Art Exhibition
Artist talk, Australia Council ArtStart Grant Info Session
Artist talk, Westspace Gallery
Presenter, Exhibition Installation Workshop, ALAB RMIT University Union Arts
2007-10 Exhibition Panel Member, First Site Gallery, RMIT University Union Arts
2009 Jatiwangi Arts Factory Cultural Exchange Residency
Teaching Position, Animation and Photography Workshops, Jatiwangi Arts Factory
Artist talk, C3 Abbotsford Convent
2008 Performance Art Workshop Perfurbance #4 Global Warming, Global Warning, Krinjing Village, Mt Merapi, Indonesia
2006-08 Secretary/ Board Member, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Teaching Position, photography lectures and workshops, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) Indonesia
Curator, ‘Fictitious Realities’, Soemardja Galleri, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) Indonesia
Teaching Position, photography workshops, Jatiwangi Arts Factory, Indonesia
2006 Curator/ Founding Director, Twentybythirty Miniature Gallery, Melbourne
Artist talk, Westspace Gallery
Selected Bibliography and Media
2019 Victoria Garnons-Williams, ‘Rites of Passage’, Exhibition Catalogue
‘Art Chat Sessions Ignite Thought and Discussion’, ‘Workshop with a Difference’, Gympie Living, April
‘What’s On at the Gallery’, Cooloola Bay Bulletin, April
‘Challenging Your Ideas’, Gympie Times, Saturday March 23rd
Emil McAvoy, ‘Higher Thought Forms,’ Exhibition Essay, Sanderson Contemporary, March
Camilla Wagstaff, ‘In the Stockroom’, Art Collector, February
Wanda Gillespie, ‘Abacus’ Garland Magazine, Artist Interview, January
2018 Aimee Ralfini, Who Arted Artist Interview Podcast 95BFM, October 25th
Ilona Nelson, This Wild Song, Artist Interview Podcast
2017 Bruce Hunt, Fact from Fiction, Fremantle Gazette, August 7th
Wanda Gillespie, This Wild Song, Artist Interviews
Rachel Ashby, Art Banker, Artist Interview Podcast 95 BFM, October
John Mateer, ‘I Was Here’ curated by Anna Louise Richardson, Fremantle Arts Centre Catalogue
National Contemporary Art Awards Catalogue
Cadence Seeger, ‘Spirits and Ghosts in Gillespie’s Work’, Artists Alliance Blog October
Sculpture in the Gardens Catalogue
2016 Ashley Crawford, ‘Wanda Gillespie is a Fabulist of the Highest Order’, MARS Gallery Exhibition
‘Levitation Practice’, Catalogue, September
Wanda Gillespie, ‘Stockroom: Wanda Gillespie’, Art Money online, September
Erin Kinley, ‘Wanda Gillespie: Levitation Practice’, Art News Portal, September
2014 Julian Murphy, ‘Wanda Gillespie’, ARTAND Australia, Issue 52.1, December
Penny Teale, ‘The Music Lesson’, McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2014
Dan Rule, ‘Wanda Gillespie, The Ceremonial Processions of Dreamers’, The Age, October 11
Mae Aguinaldo, 'The Jatiwangi Art Factory’, Hand Eye Magazine, February 5
2013 Dylan Rainforth, 'Evoking the Gurus', The Age, December 4
Alexandra Djurichkovic, 'Gallery Wrap: Stable Updates Continue', Art Collector, December
2012 Varia Karipoff, 'Wanda Gillespie: An Australian in Paris - A View From the 3rd
District', Essentials Magazine, December 13
2011 Alison Carroll, 'People, action and working together: Asialink Engaging with Indonesia', Art Monthly Australia, October
Kevin Murray, 'Ideas of Antarctica', Ideas of South, November 20'
2010 Max Olijnyk, 'Wanda Gillespie, Torie Nimmervoll, Shay Minster', Threethousand, Issue 244, February 18
Jason Crombie, 'The Book of Levitation Opening' Threethousand, Issue 240, January 21
2009 Penny Modra, 'VCAM Awards', The Age, December 16
Varia Karipoff, 'Swi Gunting - Wanda Gillespie', Siberian Pepper, November 8
Mark Holsworth, 'Wanda Gillespie @ Seventh', Melbourne Art and Culture Critic, November 6
Kevin Murray, 'Craft Out of the Cage', Craft Unbound, October 29
'Wanda Gillespie at Seventh Gallery, Melbourne', Art Monthly, Issue 224, October
Justine Grace, 'Lots of People Have What You Have', Un Magazine, Issue 3.1, June
Anusha Kenny, 'Lots of People Have What You Have', George Paton Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, February
2008 Suzanne Robson, 'Lost Islands and an Arty Artefact', Moreland Leader, June 2
'Creative Journeys: Australian Artists in Asia - Wanda Gillespie', Australian Network (Documentry)
2007 'Fictitious Realities', Seputar Indonesia - Jawa Barat, November
Aminudin TH Siregar, 'Fictitious Reality', Galeri Soemardja Exhibition Catalogue, November
'Swi Gunting', 22nd Asian International Art Exhibition Catalogue, November
2006 Mark Holsworth, 'Success & Failure' Culture Critic @ Melbourne, September 30
Charlotte Mcinnes, 'Flying for Dummies', Blindside Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, September
'Flying for Dummies and Failed Attempts' Self-published Postcard Booklet
2005 Charlotte Mcinnes, 'The Sculpture of Flying Dreams - The Ephemeral Idea and the Clunky Object'
Elena Taylor, 'Impossible Flight', National Gallery of Australia, National Sculpture Prize Exhibition Catalogue, July
2003 Gwen Norcliff, '... And Other Tales', Crease Magazine, Issue 1
'...And Other Tales' New Zealand National Radio, August
Amie Hammond, '... And Other Tales', George Fraser Gallery Exhibition Catalogue
Collections
Wallace Arts Trust
Vulcan Steel Collection
Various private collections, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia
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