Hilarie Mais b. 1952

  • Artist (Sculptor)
Born in England, contemporary abstract sculptor Hilarie Mais has been living and exhibiting in Australia since 1980. She has also shown her work internationally and has had her work shown several times in the Sydney Biennale, Perspecta and the Australian Sculpture Triennial.
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Name
Hilarie Mais
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Birth date
1952
Birth place
Leeds, UK
Active Period
  • 1977-
Arrival
  • 1980 (Sydney, NSW)
Residence
  • Sydney, NSW
  • New York, USA
  • United Kingdom
Training
  • Slade Higher Diploma, Boise Scholar, 1975 - 1977 The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
  • Bachelor of Arts (1st Hons), 1971 - 1974 Winchester School of Art, UK
  • 1970 - 1971 Bradford School of Art, England, UK
Cultural Heritage
  • English
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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Related stub person groups
  • Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (associate of)
  • Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA (associate of)
Related works
  • Shiver (creator of)
  • The Waiting (creator of)
Related collections
  • Woolley & Associates, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW (collected in)
  • Wesfarmers Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Visy Board Collection, SA (collected in)
  • University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. (collected in)
  • University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld (collected in)
  • University College, London, UK (collected in)
  • TAB Collection, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Smorgon Contemporary Australian Art Collection, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (collected in)
  • Shell Collection, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Seidler Collection, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Samsung Corporation, Seoul, Korea (collected in)
  • SA Brewing Collection, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Parliament Collection, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Medibank Collection, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mecenat Collection, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Macquarie Bank, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Liszt Foundation, New York (collected in)
  • ICI Collection, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • IBM Collection, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Deutsche Bank, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Chartwell Collection, New Plymouth, New Zealand (collected in)
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Monash University, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW (collected in)
  • Baillieu Myer Collection, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Australian Capital Equity Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Bulleen, Vic. (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • ASER Sculpture Collection, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Artbank (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (received)
  • VISY Art Prize (received)
  • The Blake Prize for Religious Art (received)
  • Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (received)
  • 1987 : Australia Council for the Arts Artist Grant (received)
  • 1979/1980 : Artist-in-residence, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (received)
  • Fellowship, New York Studio School (received)
  • Boise Scholarship, University College London, UK (received)
  • Hampshire Art Award (received)
Related events
  • The Gathering (exhibited at)
  • Divide (exhibited at)
  • Hilarie Mais: A Survey, 1974 - 2004 (exhibited at)
  • MCA Unpacked II (exhibited at)
  • Maths in the Visual World (exhibited at)
  • Untitled: Aspects of Abstraction (exhibited at)
  • Against the Grain (exhibited at)
  • Good Vibrations (exhibited at)
  • In Side: An Exhibition in Two Parts (exhibited at)
  • Sublime: 25 years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Fathoming: Contemporary Australian Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • Laurence, Mais, Parr, Tillers (exhibited at)
  • Recent Acquisitions (exhibited at)
  • Weather (exhibited at)
  • Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection (exhibited at)
  • Southern Reflections (exhibited at)
  • Material Perfection: Minimalism and its Aftermath, from the Kerry Stokes Collection (exhibited at)
  • (Solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • Conversations (exhibited at)
  • (Solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • Tokyo International Art Festival (exhibited at)
  • Rites for an Anxious Spring (exhibited at)
  • The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • The National Womens Art Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection (exhibited at)
  • The Blake Prize Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Baillier Myer Collection of the 80s (exhibited at)
  • Circle, Line, Square - Aspects of Geometry (exhibited at)
  • Approaches to the Sublime: Aspects of the Esoteric in Contemporary Painting (exhibited at)
  • (Solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • New York Studio School Alumni Show (exhibited at)
  • Dissonance, Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism & Art (exhibited at)
  • Hilarie Mais Retrospective: Australian Works: 1982 - 1990 (exhibited at)
  • The Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • 3rd Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • The 1980s (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta, An Interrupted Dialogue (exhibited at)
  • Origins, Originality & Beyond, The 6th Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • (Solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • New Friends (exhibited at)
  • Australian Sculpture Now: 2nd Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Abstract Australian Sculpture from 1970: A Continuing Tradition, 4th Biennale of Sydney Satellite Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Recent Directions in Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • (Solo exhibition) (exhibited at)