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wendy mills

wendy@wendy-mills.com
Wendy Mills is based in Ocean Shores, Northern NSW, Australia.

 
commissions
 
    2003
Hobart Place, Canberra. Water Artwork
Commissioned by Urban Services ACT Govt.
       
    2003
Hobart Place, Canberra. Design of Wind Barriers
Commissioned by Urban Services ACT
Govt.
       
    2002
Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Atrium Artwork
Commissioned by Queensland Dept of Health
       
    2001
Coranderrk Street Pedestrian Bridge Artwork, Canberra
Commissioned by artsACT
       
    2001
Railway Bridge Artwork, Caboolture
Commissioned by Caboolture Shire Council
       
    2001
Spectacle Garden Sculpture, Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane
Collaboration with, and commissioned by, Landplan Studio
       
    1999
Water Artwork, Queen Street Mall Redevelopment, Brisbane
Commissioned by Brisbane City Council
       
    1999
Carindale Town Square Water Artwork
Commissioned by Suncorp, Qld.
       
    1998
Unilodge, Brisbane. Entry statement artworks.
Commissioned by Cottee Parker Architects and Brisbane Campus Apartments
       
    1997
Brunswick Street Railway Station, Fortitude Valley, Qld - temporary installation. Commissioned by Institute of Modern Art for "Art On Line" Project.
       
    1997
Water Sculpture for Sunshine Coast Airport, Qld
Commissioned by Maroochy Shire Council
       
    1997
Water Artwork for Library Square, Cleveland, Qld
Commissioned by Redland Shire Council
       
    1995
Lighting sculptures for Treasury Casino Entry Foyer and Baccarat Room, Brisbane
Commissioned by Jupiter’s Casino
Collaboration with lighting designer Warren Dunne
       
    1988
"Gates of Heaven", King Edward Park, Brisbane
Commissioned by Brisbane City Council.
       
    1987
"Acts of Silence". One year installation in Lyric foyer QPAC
Commissioned by Queensland Performing Arts Complex Brisbane.
       
     
awards
       
  2001   Arts Queensland grant to publish book on artwork
  1997   Australia Council, New Media Arts Fund - Partnerships (with lighting designers)
  1992   Visual Arts Fellowship, Queensland State Government. International travel to develop work in new media
  1991   Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant
Tokyo - to research public art and new media
  1990   Australian Network for Art and Technology Award to attend ANAT Summer School, Adelaide
  1987   Premier’s Art Award, Queensland State Government
  1986,84,82   Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grants to Individual Artists
  1980   Lillian and Andrew Pedersen Memorial Prize for Small Sculpture, Queensland
Art Gallery
 
solo exhibitions
 
    2000
"Waterfall"
Installation with video projection with live sound performance.
       
    1993
"Antarctica"
Video screening, Mississippi State University, USA.
       
    1990
"Memorial"
Institute of Modern Art annex exhibit. Installation & performance.
.
       
    1989
"Signing"
Studio Exhibition, Brisbane. Installation with slide projections
.
       
    1988
"Fish Drawings"
Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane
       
    1986
"Dyadic Offering"
Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland. Installation.
.
       
    1984
"Transience"
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Installation.
       
    1983
"Divine Union: A Temporary Affair"
40 Charlotte Street, Brisbane. Installation with sound.
       
     
selected group exhibitions
 
    1999
Tekhne Exhibition RAIA building.
Artists & architects collaborations.
       
    1995
Pseudo, Princess Theatre, Brisbane.
       
    1995 National Digital Art Awards, Noosa Regional Gallery
1995
Recent Works in Electronic Media, Queensland University of Technology
1994
Intersections, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney
       
    1993
Nature of Space, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
       
    1991
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
       
    1990
A New Aesthetic, Lindon Gallery, Melbourne.
       
    1981-90
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne.
       
    1989
Encounter-3, University of South Australia.
       
    1988
Homage to Women Artists in Queensland, Gold Coast Regional Gallery.
       
    1982-88
8th, 9th, 10th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Regional Art Gallery.
       
    1983,84
Harvey Drawing Prize, Queensland Art Gallery.
       
     
collections
 
 
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Artbank
 
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Brisbane City Council
 
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Griffith University, Brisbane
 
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Queensland Art Gallery
 
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Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
 
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Queensland Government Office, Tokyo
 
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
 
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Private Collections
 
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St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane
 
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Suncorp, Brisbane
 
bibliography
 
 
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Tim Morrell "Wendy Mills", IMA Publishing, 2003
 
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Michel Helmrich "Artlink" Vol 20 No 4 – "Water Tables" issue - Sculpture & Cities, 2000
 
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John Macarthur "Architecture Australia" Jan-Feb 2000 - Radarart
 
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Pat Hoffie "Artlink" Vol 18 No 2 - "Going Public. Art On Line" 1998
 
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Stephanie Britton "Artlink" Vol 16 N0 2 & 3 CD ROM "Sequinz", "Carriers", 1996
 
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Phillippa Burne "Artlink" Vol 15 No 2 & 3 "Portraiture and Technology" 1995
 
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Ken Scarlett "Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens" Craftsmen House, 1993
 
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Sandy Kirby "Sight Lines, Women’s Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia" Craftsmen House, 1992
 
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Graeme Sturgeon "Contemporary Australian Sculpture", Craftsmen House, 1990
 
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Bruce Muirhead "Encounters-3" - "Touching the Core, Sculptural Installations" University of South Australian Art Gallery catalogue 1989
 
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Bruce Muirhead "Dyadic Offering", Noosa Regional Art Gallery catalogue, 1986
 
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Graeme Sturgeon "Australian Sculpture Now", National Gallery of Victoria, 1984
 
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Jenny Harper "Transience: An Installation by Wendy Mills", Queensland Art Gallery catalogue June 1984
 
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Jenny Harper "Arts National", 2(2), December, "Transience: An Installation", 1984
 
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Graeme Sturgeon "Sculpture at Mildura", Mildura Arts Centre, 1981
 
other activities
 
  1997   Design for sound, laser, light projection events, Kuala Lumpur
  1990-96   Part time lecturer in sculpture and drawing at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
  1990-96   Part time lecturer in sculpture at Academy of Arts, Queensland University of Technology
  1987-96   Tutor in Drawing & Installation, Brisbane Institute of Art
  1995   Producing video documentary on making of Treasury Casino ‘Snakes’ lighting artwork
  1992-93   Visiting Artist and student of computer imaging, Mississippi State University, USA
  1988   Tutor in Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Australian Flying Art School
  1988   Artist-in-Residence for Brisbane City Council
  1988   Committee Member of Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council
  1977-79   Student - Queensland College of Art - Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture)
  1967-69   Student - National Art School, Sydney
 
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