Wendy Mills b. 1950

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Glass & metal Artist / Designer),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Wendy Mills is an Australian visual artist whose practice has ranged from temporary installations, to interactive computer works, to commissioned public art. Much of her artwork is characterised by an underlying geometry and the use of translucent and reflective materials, water and light.
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Name
Wendy Mills
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer)
  • Artist (Video Artist)
  • Artist (Glass & metal Artist / Designer)
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Other Occupation
  • Art/Design Consultant (Art/Design Consultant 1998: Artwork Consultant, Gillespie Asia Pacific Architects for Redevelopment of South Bank, Brisbane. 1991: Design Consultant for Sculpture, Griffith University, Brisbane.)
  • Teacher/Tutor/Lecturer (Teacher/Tutor/Lecturer 1987: Sessional teacher, Queensland College of Art. 1988: Tutor in Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, Australian Flying Art School. 1987/1996: Tutor in Drawing & Installation, Brisbane Institute of Art 1990-96: Sessional lecturer in Sculpture & Drawing, Academy of Arts, Queensland University of Technology & Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.)
Birth date
1950
Birth place
Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • 1980-
Residence
  • 1976 Brisbane, QLD
Training
  • Diploma of Fine Arts (Sculpture) (BA equivalent), 1977 - 1979 Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, QLD
  • 1967 - 1970 East Sydney Technical College, Sydney, NSW
Cultural Heritage
  • Australian/British
Languages
  • English

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  • Shaw, Morrice (associate of)
  • Thackrah, Carla (associate of)
  • Eurell, Jennifer (sibling of)
  • Mills, Marie (sibling of)
  • Mills, Donald (sibling of)
Related stub person groups
  • Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council (associate of)
Related works
  • Oscillations (creator of)
  • Cotton Tree (creator of)
  • Lens (creator of)
  • Sweet Justice Pool (creator of)
  • Sweet Words Wind Barriers (creator of)
  • Arc (creator of)
  • Crossing (creator of)
  • Fairweather Bells (creator of)
  • Concentric Intersection (creator of)
  • On This Auspicious Occasion (creator of)
  • Cooling Towers (creator of)
  • Unilodge Building Entry Artworks (creator of)
  • Capalaba Business Centre Sculpture (creator of)
  • Fortitude (creator of)
  • Shell (creator of)
  • Water Artwork for Library Square, Cleveland, Queensland (creator of)
  • Snakes (creator of)
  • Inverting the Square (creator of)
  • Gates of Heaven (creator of)
  • Acts of Silence (creator of)
  • Preparation for White (creator of)
Related collections
  • Suncorp, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Queensland Government Office, Tokyo (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Private Collections (collected in)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Mildura Arts Centre, VIC (collected in)
  • Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Brisbane City Council, QLD (collected in)
  • Artbank, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Award - Australia Council VA CB New Work Grant (received)
  • Award - Queensland Government Year of Built Environment Award (received)
  • Award - Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant (received)
  • Award - Arts Queensland grant for Institute of Modern Art (received)
  • Award - Australia Council, New Media Arts Fund (received)
  • 1992 Award - Visual Arts Fellowship, Queensland State Government (received)
  • Award - Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant (received)
  • Australian Network for Art and Technology Award (received)
  • 1987 Award - Premier's Art Award, Queensland State Government (received)
  • Award - Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grants to Individual Artists (received)
  • Award - Lillian & Andrew Pedersen Memorial Prize for Small Sculpture, Queensland Art Gallery (received)
  • Warana Caltex Sculpture Prize (received)
Related events
  • 4th Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • 9th Mildura Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • 8th Mildura Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • 125 Anniversary Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Another Dimension (exhibited at)
  • Double Take (exhibited at)
  • Tekhne - Artists & Architects (exhibited at)
  • Kakadu Goes Corporate (exhibited at)
  • Habidimap (exhibited at)
  • Jupiter's Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Artist Books (exhibited at)
  • Sequinz (exhibited at)
  • No one Receiving (exhibited at)
  • National Digital Art Awards (exhibited at)
  • Recent Works in Electronic Media (exhibited at)
  • Pseudo (exhibited at)
  • Intersections (exhibited at)
  • Nature of Space (exhibited at)
  • Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • A New Aesthetic (exhibited at)
  • Gold Coast Prize (exhibited at)
  • Encounter-3 (exhibited at)
  • Aberdare Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Homage to Women Artist in Queensland (exhibited at)
  • Gold Coast Prize (exhibited at)
  • Suncorp Biennial Awards (exhibited at)
  • Works on Paper (exhibited at)
  • Masks (exhibited at)
  • A.R.X. (exhibited at)
  • Small Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Harvey Drawing Prize (exhibited at)
  • Waterfall (studio installation with video projection) (exhibited at)
  • Antarctica (thawing of memories) (exhibited at)
  • Memorial (exhibited at)
  • Signing (exhibited at)
  • Fish Drawings (exhibited at)
  • Dyadic Offering (exhibited at)
  • Transcience (polar inversion) (exhibited at)
  • Divine Union: A Temporary Affair (exhibited at)