Wanda Gillespie

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Steve Carr - Glass Cherries

Steve Carr’s practice explores transformation -  how familiar materials, objects and forms can shift into unexpected states. Working across sculpture, photography and video, Carr uses precise, experimental processes to reveal new possibilities within everyday things.

His delicate Glass Cherries are part of an ongoing investigation into material change and perception. Created from scientific blown glass, the works capture the essence of a familiar fruit while transforming it into something fragile, translucent and almost otherworldly - a reflection on memory, absence and the passage of time.

Born in Gore, New Zealand in 1976, Carr holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. 

  • Handblown scientific glass
  • Open Edition
  • 100 x 70 x 30mm approx.
  • Presented in custom box with a signed Certificate of Authenticity card inside

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Steve Carr - Glass Cherries

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Artist Bio

 
Wanda Gillespie is an Australian/New Zealand contemporary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Intermedia) from Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University (2003) and a Master of Fine Arts by Research with First Class Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University (2009).

Her sculptural works and performative actions seek transcendence through the reimagining of known forms.

A belief in the spiritual potency of physical objects drives her work. Through pairings or groupings, like the constellation of stars, a cause and effect occurs, an alchemy of form, material and space. Wood is chosen for it’s energetic qualities, a conduit connecting to whenua/place. A once living growing entity, now ripened for the sculptors chisel, peeling back layers of seasons, to extract a truth in shape from the invisible worlds.

Over the past decade she has refined her craft as a woodcarver through the creation of evocative portrait sculptures, combining detailed and abstracted, ancient and contemporary form. Familiar objects, are reimagined with alternate uses, history, culture and ceremony. By using traditional craft techniques in contemporary ways, she questions known histories and the nature of reality.

Gillespie has established a significant practice with numerous solo exhibitions, awards and residencies. She was recently awarded the 2020 Wallace Art Awards Jury prize, and has been finalist and highly commended in many sculpture prizes including the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, National Contemporary Art Award, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, John Fries Memorial Prize, the Blake Prize, and the National Sculpture Prize. She received the Art and Australia Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award in 2014. Her solo projects have been funded by the Australian Arts Council, City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria, Creative New Zealand, and Heart of the City (Auckland Council).

Recent solo exhibitions include Higher Thinking (Vivian Gallery), Higher Thought Forms (Sanderson Contemporary), Levitation Practice (MARS Gallery), The Ceremonial Processions of Dreamers (Lindberg Galleries), The Antarctic Kingdom of Gondwanaland (Craft Victoria and Fehily Contemporary), Into the Void (Linden Contemporary Centre for the Arts), and Tana Swiwi, (Westpace, Melbourne).

Wanda has taken several artist residencies in Indonesia through Asialink and Arts Victoria and was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, through the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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