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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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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    Out of Karekare 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      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. Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on the GulfWaiheke 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   Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 3D  Numinosity |
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