WANDA GILLESPIE
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Education
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2009 Master of Fine Arts by Research with First Class Honours, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
Winner Vulcan Steel Tutorship Award, Anthony Ganim Postgraduate Scholarship, Vulan Steel Merit Award

2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Intermedia), Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University


​Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2020 Nests, Artweek Auckland, public sculpture/installation, Durham Lane, Auckland
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
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2022 An Alternative Economics, Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane, Australia
         Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Headlands and Waiheke Gallery, New Zealand
         
Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, Te Kōputu a Te Whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand
2021
Future Inheritance: 20 Speculative Objects for a Time to Come, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) Design week at Truce, Melbourne 
         
Liminal Wanderlust, Fox Galleries, Melbourne
         Numinosity, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
2020 The Wallace Art Awards, Jury Award Winner Pah Homestead, Auckland and touring exhibition Pataka Art and Museum, Wellington
         Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, Te Kōputu a Te Whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand
2019 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
         Friends and Family, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne
         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 (Highly Commended)
         A Little Something, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
         The Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland and touring exhibition Pataka Art and Museum, Wellington
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
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2022  Barry Brickell Driving Creek Ceramic Art Residency
2021 
 Karekare House Artist Residency (Eden Arts Trust)
2020 Wallace Art Awards – Jury Prize

         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
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2021 Creative New Zealand, peer assessor
         The Warren Woodworkshop, woodcarving teacher
2020
Australia Council for the Arts, peer assessor
         The Warren Woodworkshop, woodcarving teacher

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
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2022 Virtuous Cycle, Gulf News, Waiheke Community Newspaper, March 17
         Pamela Walker, Waiheke's Sculpture Crawl is a delight for Walkers, Stuff NZ, March 7
         Ginny Fisher 'The Other-Worldly World of Wanda Gillespie - Artist, Woodcarver and Mystical Archaeologist', Viva, February 25
         Ginny Fisher 'Sculptural Transcendence', Viva NZ Herald, February 23
         Connie Brown 'A Counting Frame for Circular Economies', Sculpture on the Gulf catalogue 

2021 Dr Eliza Burke 'Numinosity - Contemporary Art Tasmania' Art Link Magazine, November 15
          Nikita Bhopti 'Review: Future Inheritance' exhibition at NGV Melbourne Design Week', thedesignwriter.com.au

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
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Collections
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Wallace Arts Trust
Vulcan Steel Collection
Various private collections, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia

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  • Portfolio
    • Counting Frames for a Transient Era
    • Mist Dweller and Abacus
    • A Counting Frame for Circular Economies
    • Truth Teacher
    • Counting Frames
    • Boy Looking Up
    • A Counting Frame for Alternative Economies
    • A Counting Frame for Future Beings
    • Higher Thinking
    • Higher Thought Forms
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculator with Gumnut and Sheoak
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculators
    • Levitation Practice
    • The Ceremonial Processions of Dreamers
    • The Antarctic Kingdom of Gondwanaland
    • The Island of Tana Swiwi
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