Wendy Mills Is Based in Brisbane, Australia
wendy mills
Wendy Mills is based in Brisbane, Australia.
commissions
2003Hobart Place, Canberra. Water Artwork. Commissioned by Urban Services ACT Govt.
2003Hobart Place, Canberra. Design of Wind Barriers. Commissioned by Urban Services ACT Govt.
2002Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Atrium Artwork. Commissioned by Queensland Dept of Health.
2001Coranderrk Street Pedestrian Bridge Artwork, Canberra. Commissioned by artsACT.
2001Railway Bridge Artwork, Caboolture. Commissioned by Caboolture Shire Council.
2001Spectacle Garden Sculpture, Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane. Collaboration with, and commissioned by, Landplan Studio.
1999Water Artwork, Queen Street Mall Redevelopment, Brisbane. Commissioned by Brisbane City Council
1999Carindale Town Square Water Artwork. Commissioned by Suncorp, Qld.
1998Unilodge, Brisbane. Entry statement artworks. Commissioned by Cottee Parker Architects and Brisbane Campus Apartments.
1997Brunswick Street Railway Station, Fortitude Valley, Qld - temporary installation. Commissioned by Institute of Modern Art for "Art On Line" Project.
1997Water Sculpture for Sunshine Coast Airport, Qld. Commissioned by Maroochy Shire Council.
1997Water Artwork for Library Square, Cleveland, Qld. Commissioned by Redland Shire Council.
1995Lighting 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)
1992Visual Arts Fellowship, Queensland State Government. International travel to develop work in new media
1991Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant Tokyo - to research public art and new media
1990Australian Network for Art and Technology Award to attend ANAT Summer School, Adelaide
1987Premier’s Art Award, Queensland State Government
1986,84,82 Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grants to Individual Artists
1980Lillian 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
1999Tekhne Exhibition RAIA building. Artists & architects collaborations.
1995Pseudo, 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.
1993Nature of Space, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
1991Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1990A New Aesthetic, Lindon Gallery, Melbourne.
1981-901st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne.
1989Encounter-3, University of South Australia.
1988Homage to Women Artists in Queensland, Gold Coast Regional Gallery.
1982-888th, 9th, 10th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Regional Art Gallery.
1983,84Harvey Drawing Prize, Queensland Art Gallery.
collections
Artbank
Brisbane City Council
Griffith University, Brisbane
Queensland Art Gallery
Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Queensland Government Office, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Private Collections
St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane
Suncorp, Brisbane
bibliography
Tim Morrell "Wendy Mills", IMA Publishing, 2003
Michel Helmrich "Artlink" Vol 20 No 4 – "Water Tables" issue - Sculpture & Cities, 2000
John Macarthur "Architecture Australia" Jan-Feb 2000 - Radarart
Pat Hoffie "Artlink" Vol 18 No 2 - "Going Public. Art On Line" 1998
Stephanie Britton "Artlink" Vol 16 N0 2 & 3 CD ROM "Sequinz", "Carriers", 1996
Phillippa Burne "Artlink" Vol 15 No 2 & 3 "Portraiture and Technology" 1995
Ken Scarlett "Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens" Craftsmen House, 1993
Sandy Kirby "Sight Lines, Women’s Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia" Craftsmen House, 1992
Graeme Sturgeon "Contemporary Australian Sculpture", Craftsmen House, 1990
Bruce Muirhead "Encounters-3" - "Touching the Core, Sculptural Installations" University of South Australian Art Gallery catalogue 1989
Bruce Muirhead "Dyadic Offering", Noosa Regional Art Gallery catalogue, 1986
Graeme Sturgeon "Australian Sculpture Now", National Gallery of Victoria, 1984
Jenny Harper "Transience: An Installation by Wendy Mills", Queensland Art Gallery catalogue June 1984
Jenny Harper "Arts National", 2(2), December, "Transience: An Installation", 1984
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