WANDA GILLESPIE
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A Counting Frame for Alternative Economies at Aotearoa Art Fair 2023

20/3/2023

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Counting Frames for an Alternative Economy

Aotearoa Art Fair
March 2 - 5, 2023


A sweet sojourn for this piece from the Brick Bay Sculpture trail down to Tāmaki Makaurau for the Aotearoa Art Fair 2023.
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August 11th, 2022

11/8/2022

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Counting Frames for a Transient Era

Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery

28 May - 16 August 2022

Counting frames for a transient era reflects on timelessness as a term of value, relating this to the distortion of time during the pandemic and the ngahere surrounding Karekare where Gillespie completed a residency in 2021. It contrasts a view of time as measurable and linear – using forms like the hourglass within the inner structure of the abaci – with the deep time of growth and evolution, of which its materials bear traces.  

Presented in the Te Uru window space alongside Titirangi’s main thoroughfare, Gillespie’s work offers a moment of pause amid the flow of traffic. As life otherwise resumes its old, rushed rhythms, it acts as an invitation to look beyond the present moment and its immediate desires, toward a larger system of beings and cycles in which we are immersed.  
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June 15th, 2022

15/6/2022

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An Alternative Economics

Curated by Tulleah Pearce at The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 

Five Mile Radius, Gunybi Ganambarr, Wanda Gillespie, Katie Paterson, Make or Break, Keg de Souza and Shevaun Wright

7 May - 9 July 2022

'An Alternative Economics', an exhibition that brings together a group of Australian and international artists who each use their artmaking to explore and expand on the creation of value.
Guided by the idea of the circular economy and its compelling counter-narrative to the untenable model of eternal growth, each work in this exhibition offers a provocation to make us reconsider what is 'counted' in our society and why.
Images: Joe Ruckli


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May 31st, 2022

31/5/2022

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Out of Karekare
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Karekare house residencies 2021
17 May - 4 June 2022
@thegreyplace
37 Scanlan St, Greylynn

Karekare House Charitable Trust partnered with Eden Arts Trust present 7 artists & their responses to their residency at Karekare.


Heidi Brickell
Louise Menzies
Peata Larkin
Reece King
Richard Adams
Tira Walsh
Wanda Gillespie
+ jazz ensemble Nairobi Trio

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The residency at Karekare was a wonderful exploratory time to dream, listen to the turning of the earth and planets, while reflecting on humanity’s unprecedented moment in history.

Quite a few of my new abacus sculptures feature the hourglass as a central motif, as I further investigate methods/systems of calculating and their artefacts. During my Karekare house residency, I contemplated how the waterfall acts as a kind of natural hourglass. I dreamt of how its form could also be simplified into an abacus sculpture. The elastic and non linear nature of time and space is something I'm forever intrigued by. During walks on the beach, I experienced an illusive sense of time and space, not unlike the slowing and speeding up of time in intermittent lockdowns of that era.
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April 02nd, 2022

2/4/2022

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Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on the Gulf

Waiheke Island Headlands

Friday March 4 - Sunday March 27th

​My piece 'A Counting Frame for Circular Economies' has been exhibited in the Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on the Gulf at Waiheke Island. There was great interest from the public and am thrilled to know it's found a new home.
'A Counting Frame for Circular Economies begins with the question of how to value what is immeasurable. Do we calculate the dollar value of mangrove forests and pollinators for their thankless contributions to life and economic systems? Is the attempt to do so possible or just absurd?'

A great piece of writing by Constance Brown and images are found in my portfolio tab.
​https://www.wandagillespie.com/a-counting-frame-for-circular-economies.html
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February 12th, 2022

12/2/2022

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Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 3D

Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi – Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre,
Kakahoroa Drive, Whakatāne


Exhibition opening hours

Sunday 13 February 2022 - Saturday 9 April 2022
Weekdays : 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Weekends : 10:00 am - 2:00 pm


​My piece 'Mist Dweller with Abacus' is a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D award 
@mmcaward I'm thrilled to be selected again amongst such a strong group of artists and object makers.

As humanity crosses the threshold of this cataclysmically forced new era, a rethinking of our roles within the narrative has come into play. The destabilising of old systems has brought the opportunity to reinvent organisations and value structures in a more conscious way, questioning previous beliefs. The Mist Dweller looks on at the abacus and calculates alternative mathematic sequences for this new world order. The mysteries of the universe are tabulated through telepathic reckoning, with the simple clicking of beads.
The piece draws its energetic materialism through the use of local timbers, carved native Rata, Rewarewa, while the coconut shell beads and abacus speak of our location within the broader Asia pacific region.  
 
A reference to the measurement of time is made through the graphic shape of an hourglass, Infinity like, in the central design of the abacus rod. During a period where time has become elastic, slowed through lockdowns and sped up through quick changes to regulations, this exploration of time and the re-examining of our values through the abacus, is an apt distillation of the zeitgeist of this moment in history. 

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Numinosity

9/9/2021

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Numinosity
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Contemporary Art Tasmania
​27 Tasma St, North Hobart

27 Tasma Street, North Hobart
Opening 5:30 17 September 2021
18 September - 24 October 2021


I have several pieces in 'Numinosity', a group exhibition opening next week at Contemporary Art Tasmania. I'm excited to be showing my abacus piece again from NGV design week earlier this year, alongside some of my favourite artists Belle Bassin, Belinda Winkler, Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples. 

'The works in Numinosity look beyond the limitations of everyday rational activity, touching on ideas of spiritualism, meditative and hypnogogic states, but exist outside any particular religious tradition. Much like the process of artists opening themselves to possibility, Numinosity is an opening, bringing together the work of contemporary artists who interrogate the life, soul and energy of their artistic material in distinct ways.'

Curated by the Contemporary Art Tasmania curatorium


https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/numinosity/
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Stockroom Kyneton

28/8/2021

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Stockroom
27 Tasma Street, North Hobart
98 Piper St, Kyneton, Victoria 
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I have new work at the Stockroom Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. Head over to their website https://stockroomspace.com/ for stock lists and Covid updates,
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Artist talks at Karekare house residency

31/7/2021

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Artist talks at Karekare house residency
27 Tasma Street, North Hobart

Karekare House hosted an inspiring afternoon of artist talks at the weekend - thanks to Wanda Gillespie, Peata Larkin, Heidi Brickell and Richard Adams who have all spent time there as artists-in-residence this year.
http://www.karekarehouse.co.nz/​
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Karekare House Residency

16/2/2021

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Karekare House Residency
27 Tasma Street, North Hobart

I'm thrilled to be taking an artist residency at Karekare house for the month of March with the generous support of the Eden Arts Trust. 

Nestled in a tranquil West Coast valley, 2mins flat walk from the beach; Karekare House (at one point in history nicknamed ‘The Barracks’) sits on over an acre of land, and originates back to the late 19th Century.
With such a rich 100 year plus history – at one point owned by the Murdochs; then run as a guest house by the Farleys; then more recently featured in the film ‘The Piano’; and over the last 40 years lovingly restored by the children’s author Dorothy Butler – Karekare House has since been repurposed, transformed into a remote creative artists residency.
We intend to continue the life and spirit of Karekare House in one of the most beautiful areas of New Zealand. Karekare House will remain an actively creative space, and very much part of the local community.
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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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