wendy mills
wmills@pacific.net.au
Wendy Mills is based in Brisbane, Australia.
commissions
2003
2003
2002
2001
2001
2001
1999
1999
1998
1997
1997
1997
1995
1988
1987
Hobart Place, Canberra. Water Artwork. Commissioned by Urban Services ACT Govt.
Hobart Place, Canberra. Design of Wind Barriers. Commissioned by Urban Services ACT Govt.
Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Atrium Artwork. Commissioned by Queensland Dept of Health.
Coranderrk Street Pedestrian Bridge Artwork, Canberra. Commissioned by artsACT.
Railway Bridge Artwork, Caboolture. Commissioned by Caboolture Shire Council.
Spectacle Garden Sculpture, Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane. Collaboration with, and commissioned by,
Landplan Studio.
Water Artwork, Queen Street Mall Redevelopment, Brisbane. Commissioned by Brisbane City Council
Carindale Town Square Water Artwork. Commissioned by Suncorp, Qld.
Unilodge, Brisbane. Entry statement artworks. Commissioned by Cottee Parker Architects and Brisbane Campus
Apartments.
Brunswick Street Railway Station, Fortitude Valley, Qld - temporary installation. Commissioned by Institute of
Modern Art for "Art On Line" Project.
Water Sculpture for Sunshine Coast Airport, Qld. Commissioned by Maroochy Shire Council.
Water Artwork for Library Square, Cleveland, Qld. Commissioned by Redland Shire Council.
Lighting sculptures for Treasury Casino Entry Foyer and Baccarat Room, Brisbane. Commissioned by Jupiter’s
Casino. Collaboration with lighting designer Warren Dunne.
"Gates of Heaven", King Edward Park, Brisbane. Commissioned by Brisbane City Council.
"Acts of Silence". One year installation in Lyric foyer QPAC. Commissioned by Queensland Performing Arts
Complex Brisbane.
awards
2001
1997
1992
1991
1990
1987
1986,84,82
1980
Arts Queensland grant to publish book on artwork
Australia Council, New Media Arts Fund - Partnerships (with lighting designers)
Visual Arts Fellowship, Queensland State Government. International travel to develop work in new media
Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant Tokyo - to research public art and new
media
Australian Network for Art and Technology Award to attend ANAT Summer School, Adelaide
Premier’s Art Award, Queensland State Government
Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grants to Individual Artists
Lillian and Andrew Pedersen Memorial Prize for Small Sculpture, Queensland Art Gallery
solo exhibitions
2000
1993
1990
1989
1988
1986
1984
1983
"Waterfall" Installation with video projection with live sound performance.
"Antarctica" Video screening, Mississippi State University, USA.
"Memorial" Institute of Modern Art annex exhibit. Installation & performance.
"Signing" Studio Exhibition, Brisbane. Installation with slide projections.
"Fish Drawings" Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane.
"Dyadic Offering" Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland. Installation.
"Transience" Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Installation.
"Divine Union: A Temporary Affair" 40 Charlotte Street, Brisbane. Installation with sound.
selected group exhibitions
1999
1995
1995
1995
1994
1993
1991
1990
1981-90
1989
1988
1982-88
1983,84
Tekhne Exhibition RAIA building. Artists & architects collaborations.
Pseudo, Princess Theatre, Brisbane.
National Digital Art Awards, Noosa Regional Gallery.
Recent Works in Electronic Media, Queensland University of Technology.
Intersections, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
Nature of Space, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
A New Aesthetic, Lindon Gallery, Melbourne.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne.
Encounter-3, University of South Australia.
Homage to Women Artists in Queensland, Gold Coast Regional Gallery.
8th, 9th, 10th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Regional Art Gallery.
Harvey 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
1990-96
1990-96
1987-96
1995
1992-93
1988
1988
1988
1977-79
1967-69
Design for sound, laser, light projection events, Kuala Lumpur
Part time lecturer in sculpture and drawing at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Part time lecturer in sculpture at Academy of Arts, Queensland University of Technology
Tutor in Drawing & Installation, Brisbane Institute of Art
Producing video documentary on making of Treasury Casino ‘Snakes’ lighting artwork
Visiting Artist and student of computer imaging, Mississippi State University, USA
Tutor in Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Australian Flying Art School
Artist-in-Residence for Brisbane City Council
Committee Member of Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council
Student - Queensland College of Art - Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture)
Student - National Art School, Sydney