WANDA GILLESPIE
  • Exhibitions
    • Crossing the Rubicon
    • The Reckoning
    • The Ministry for Mystical Reckoning
    • Counting Frames for a Transient Era
    • Higher Thinking
    • Higher Thought Forms
    • Levitation Practice
    • The Ceremonial Processions of Dreamers
    • The Antarctic Kingdom of Gondwanaland
    • The Island of Tana Swiwi >
      • TanaSwiwi Ceremony
  • Selected Works
    • Golden Boy
    • Klein Bottles
    • Truth Teacher
    • Mist Dweller and Abacus
    • A Counting Frame for Future Beings
    • Circular Economy (Petite)
    • Counting Frames
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculators
    • Ocatvia
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculator with Gumnut and Sheoak
    • Dream Believer
    • Mountain Seer
  • Public Sculpture
    • Kirikiriroa Abacus - Boon Sculpture Trail
    • A Counting Frame for Circular Economies
    • A Counting Frame for Alternative Economies
    • Nests
  • Workshops
    • Chip Carving Masterclass
  • News
    • Links and reviews
  • About
    • CV
    • Writing
  • Contact

Of Counting and Devotion at Craft Victoria

5/3/2025

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Of Counting and Devotion at Craft Victoria 
On Monday I installed new work at Craft Victoria in the vitrine space. The exhibition is now open to the public and an official opening event will take place on Thursday March 20th at 6pm alongside the opening of exhibitions in the main gallery space.

The beads, once simple markers of value, retain their dual function as tools of devotion, recalling the prayer beads of various spiritual traditions. At the heart of the exhibition, The Sage emerges - a hand carved face formed from a local burl. He is the orchestrator, weaving meaning from numbers and symbols, a master of hidden knowledge and sacred patterns.

​The exhibition runs until April 28th

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December 06th, 2024

6/12/2024

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Victorian Woodworkers Association artist in residence.
I am incredibly excited to announce that I have been awarded a place in the Victorian Woodworkers Association Artist Residency Program. This prestigious three-year residency offers a unique opportunity to access state-of-the-art woodworking machinery, a fully equipped workshop, and a vibrant community of fellow woodworkers. Alongside five other talented artists in residence, I will have the chance to immerse myself in a collaborative environment, where we can inspire and learn from one another. During this residency, I look forward to refining my craft and working towards upcoming exhibitions.
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August 09th, 2024

9/8/2024

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Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

I am honoured to be a finalist again this year in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize with my piece 'An Abacus for Mystical Reckoning'


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We are pleased to announce our 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalists.

From a pool of 751 extraordinary entries, 59 works have been selected by a distinguished judging panel comprising Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Old and New Art, Jarrod Rawlins, Executive Director of Arts Project Australia, Liz Nowell, and Art Gallery of NSW Curator, First Nations Art, Erin Vink.

Congratulations to Ingmar Apinis, Sean Bacon, Nathan Beard, Stephen Benwell, Lucie Billingsley, Stephen Bird, Karen Black, Jeremy Blincoe, Christian Bonett, Jasmine Bruce, Emma Bugg, Madeline Cardone, Kirsty Collins, Mitchell Davis, Lorraine Dean, Lynda Draper, Mark Eliott, Nic Fern, Chantal Fraser, Angus Gardner, Hannah Gartside, Wanda Gillespie, Minka Gillian, Nani Graddon, Grace Hasu Dlabik, Marcel Hoogstad Hay, Penny Howard, Freya Jobbins, Paul Kaptein, Virginia Keft, Simone Kennedy, Andrew Lavery, Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, Grace Lee, Jane Lennon, Simon Lownsborough, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM, Ben Mazey, Sara Morawetz, Erica Muriata, James Nguyen, Fiona Omeenyo, Yoko Ozawa, Amanda Page, Liliana Pasalic, Eleonora Pasti, Jane Price, Nani Puspasari, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Marlene Connolly & Hazel Roy, Nuha Saad, Astrid Salomon, Kien Situ, Jane Theau, Kate Tucker, Tahlia Undarlegt, William Versace, Ken and Julia Yonetani, and Ben Young.

This year’s finalists, representing a rich tapestry of artistic innovation and hailing from every Australian state and territory as well as overseas, will be on display at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf in a free exhibition running from 13 September to 20 October.

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An Abacus for Mystical Reckoning (Warratah)
Date: 2023
Materials: Totara, Brass, wooden bead, brass bead, wax, chip carved stand
Dimensions: 575 x 575 x 120mm

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Fibre Arts Take Two

14/3/2024

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Fibre Arts Take Two - Youtube Interview

Learn more about mystical archaeology, the power of objects and the combination of energy and wood in my youtube interview with Tara Axford tomorrow evening.

​ Friday 15 March 2024 @ 7pm AEDT
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Opening tomorrow evening at Sanderson Contemporary

20/2/2024

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Crossing the Rubicon


Opening Wednesday February 21st at Sanderson Contemporary
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Solo Exhibition - The Reckoning

20/2/2024

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The Reckoning


​My solo exhibition The Reckoning opened last Friday evening at Te Whare Taonga o Waiheke - Waiheke Art Gallery.

Presenting a contemplative journey where a series of captivating sculptures delve into the essence of our epoch as one of reckoning. Breathing life into the traditional abacus, Wanda transforms it into a vehicle that traverses the realms of value, systems, economics and spirituality. Finely carved figures and portraits observe the accounting at hand.

The exhibition runs alongside the Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on teh Gulf and the Te Tiriti o Waitangi exhibition until April 1st.
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Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Prize 2024

20/2/2024

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Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Prize 2024


​My piece Counting Frames for a Transient Era was a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards in Whakatane over the weekend. The exhibition is held at Te Koputu a te Whanga a  Toi, 49 Kakahoroa Drive Whakatane and features some of Aotearoas leading contemporary artists. The exhibition runs until the 6th of April.
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Boon Sculpture Trail Map

2/2/2024

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Download the Boon Sculpture Trail Map Kirikiriroa Hamilton and walk the trail

https://www.boonarts.co.nz/_files/ugd/8c4ac5_cedaf9ee2e3049eda242080c8e368b86.pdf
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Boon Sculpture Trail 2024

2/2/2024

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Boon Sculpture Trail - Kirikiriroa Hamilton
My piece Kirikiriroa Abacus is up for your viewing pleasure in Garden Place, Kiririroa Hamilton as part of the Boon Sculpture Trail.

An interest in the divine mathematics in nature is an underlying inspiration for exploring these ancient counting devices. Over time these pieces have grown conceptually to challenge ideas around the perpetual growth economies we find ourselves inextricably a part of and their environmental impacts. More broadly they question what we value and of those things less tangible, how they can be measured. The graphic inner patterning attempts to reference water and the mighty Waikato Awa. The triangular shape of this abacus mimics the classic peaked roof shape, or the wharenui and with it a sense of home. 

Exhibition runs until March 31st
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The Portrait and the Abacus

13/9/2023

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The Portrait and the Abacus

Contemporary Auckland-based artist Wanda Gillespie showcases the exploration of her work in wood from her 2023 art residency on Waiheke Island.  
Gillespie’s evocative wood carved figures wade through the muddy waters of a transcendent era guided by the sacred mathematics in nature. The exhibition brings together the artists fascination with ancient mathematic curiosities such as the abacus and counting tablets with the emotive hand carved human form. Artefacts of a moment in time, these finely crafted sculptures blend the tangible and ethereal and invite us to collectively reconsider our values as we embark on a new era of existence.
 
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My solo exhibition opened last Friday at Waiheke Art Gallery marking the end of my artist residency on the island. 

Waiheke Art Gallery

​2 Korora Rd, Oneroa, Waiheke, Aotearoa New Zealand

Open 7 days, 10 - 4pm. Exhibition runs until October 22nd
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  • Exhibitions
    • Crossing the Rubicon
    • The Reckoning
    • The Ministry for Mystical Reckoning
    • Counting Frames for a Transient Era
    • Higher Thinking
    • Higher Thought Forms
    • Levitation Practice
    • The Ceremonial Processions of Dreamers
    • The Antarctic Kingdom of Gondwanaland
    • The Island of Tana Swiwi >
      • TanaSwiwi Ceremony
  • Selected Works
    • Golden Boy
    • Klein Bottles
    • Truth Teacher
    • Mist Dweller and Abacus
    • A Counting Frame for Future Beings
    • Circular Economy (Petite)
    • Counting Frames
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculators
    • Ocatvia
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculator with Gumnut and Sheoak
    • Dream Believer
    • Mountain Seer
  • Public Sculpture
    • Kirikiriroa Abacus - Boon Sculpture Trail
    • A Counting Frame for Circular Economies
    • A Counting Frame for Alternative Economies
    • Nests
  • Workshops
    • Chip Carving Masterclass
  • News
    • Links and reviews
  • About
    • CV
    • Writing
  • Contact