Stephen Wickham
# Stephen Wickham

Stephen Wickham is an Australian photographer, painter and printmaker.

## Biography

Stephen Wickham was born in 1950 in Melbourne. He studied at Prahran College of Advanced Education in 1972. In 1974 he was awarded a Diploma of Art from the National Gallery Art School of Victoria, then undertook a Graduate Diploma of Education at Melbourne University. He was granted a Masters of Arts (Visual Arts) from Monash University (Gippsland) in 1986.

Wickham has exhibited regularly since the 1980s and has received a number of major commissions for artworks from the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (2013), the Victorian Tapestry Workshop (2007); the Department of Conservation, Lands & Environment for a poster series (1991); The Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings, Perth, for photographs for Utopia, A Picture Story (1990). He is a member of the Print Council of Australia and was Vice President (1991–1995) of the Australian Print Workshop.

## Exhibitions

### Solo

* 2017 Non-Objective: Painting, Deakin University Downtown Gallery. Victoria.
* 2013 Stephen Wickham @ Factory 49, Factory 49, Marrickville, New South Wales
* 2011 12 Snow as Ash: From Stefan to Georg Weisz, Exhibition Gallery, Deakin University, Victoria
* 2011 Dark Mantras as Dark Matter, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2009 Peppie Vs Godzilla: Part Ι & II, Shell Regional Arts Program, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2008 Dark Mantra, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2007 Peppie Vs Godzilla, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2004 Another Apocryphal History of Modernity, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2004 ...from Stefan Weisz for Georg Weisz... Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Victoria
* 2001 ...from Stefan Weisz for Elizabeth, Emil, George Weisz, and Margaret Lasica... Stephen McLaughlan Gallery,
* 1999 Dark Mantras, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1998 Arcadian Mists, Byron + Mapp Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
* 1998 Whispers from The Hindu Love Gods, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1997 Creatio ex Nihlo, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1995 Recent Painting, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1994 Works on Paper, William Mora Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
* 1994 Photographs, William Mora Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
* 1993 The Final Homage to Ivan Kljun and Meditations on the Thoughts of Francis Fukuyama, Powell Street Gallery,
* South Yarra, Victoria
* 1991 Photographs from Ubirr, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, New South Wales
* 1991 Photographs from Ubirr, (accompanying texts by Charles Green), William Mora Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
* 1990 Homage to Ivan Kljun, Powell Street Graphics, South Yarra, Victoria
* 1990 Selected Works on Paper, Monash University College, Gippsland, Victoria
* 1988 Arcadia Burning, William Mora Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
* 1988 From the Russian Suite, Powell Street Graphics, South Yarra, Victoria
* 1984 Winter at Mount Buffalo, Visibility Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1982 Sites for A Contemporary Ritual, Queensland College of Arts, Queensland

### Group

* 2019 XXV + Celebrate. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
* 2019 Annual group exhibition. Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales.
* 2019 New Modern. RNOP Melbourne.
* 2019 The Road Paintings. 5 Walls Projects, Victoria.
* 2019 Sights Unseen. Moreland City Council art collection. Melbourne, Victoria.
* 2018 Beyond the Field (Still). Contemporary Art Tasmania.
* 2018 De Natured. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
* 2018 '50 years after The Field”. Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales.
* 2018 LEGACY, Your collection. Our Story. Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria.
* 2018 Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham City Art Gallery.
* 2018 #Abstraction 2018. Deakin University, Langford 120, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, 5 Walls Projects, Victoria.
* 2018 Print Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales.
* 2018 Edge. Langford 120, Melbourne, Victoria.
* 2017 The Void-Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art. Deakin University Gallery. Victoria.
* 2017 Reductive-Non-Objective Private Gallery. Kiosk Show Katoomba Falls. NSW.
* 2017 VCA ART 150 Scholarship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne.
* 2017 Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham City Art Gallery.
* 2017 Ad Hoc. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2016-17 Visions of Utopia, Wollongong Art Gallery, Penrith art Centre.
* 2016 Nearly Monochrome, 5 Walls Projects, Footscray Victoria.
* 2016 0+1. Digital Prints, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2016 Neo-0-10 #2. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2016 Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales
* 2016 McClelland Collection, McClelland Gallery, Victoria
* 2016 Limited Edition, Burnie Regional Art Gallery
* 2015 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards. Geelong Gallery
* 2015 Grid: Matrix Module Myth. Langford 120, Melbourne, Victoria.
* 2015 NEO-0-10 works on paper. McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria. 2015 Print Award. Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
* 2015 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award. Fremantle Western Australia
* 2015 10th Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Marrickville, New South Wales 2015 The Burnie Print Prize. Burnie Regional Art Gallery
* 2015 Digital Reductive. 5 Walls Projects, Footscray Victoria.
* 2014-2015 ELEMENTA. La Trobe regional Gallery and Gippsland Art Gallery Collection Exhibition. 2014 Gold Coast Art Prize 2014, The Art Centre Gold Coast, Queensland.
* 2014 Works on Paper 2014. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2014 Abstraction 13, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2014 Paper @ Factory 49. Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales
* 2014 Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales
* 2014 National Works on Paper Awards. MPRG, Victoria
* 2014 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award. Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2014 Dark: More than Black. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2013 14 SNO 100. SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, New South Wales
* 2013 14 Splash! From the Permanent Collections. New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
* 2013 Squaring up. Langford 120, 120 Langford Street, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2013 Black Echo, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2013 Abstraction 12, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2013 SNO 99, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, New South Wales
* 2013 Factory 49 @ Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2013 Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales
* 2013 All breathing in heaven, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
* 2013 2013 Geelong acquisitive print awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
* 2012/13 Gold Coast Art Prize 2012, The Art Centre Gold Coast, Queensland
* 2012 Abstraction 11, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2012 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
* 2012 Five decades of abstraction, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
* 2012 Non-objective – present. Langford 120, 120 Langford Street, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2012 Recent Acquisitions, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
* 2011 and now, regarding that modernist remark abstraction, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2011 My Australia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
* 2011 Contemporary Landscapes, Colour Factory Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2011 Beyond Big Land, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
* 2011 New Romantics, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2011 New Romantics, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2010/11 The Naked Face: Self-portraits, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria
* 2010/11 Beyond Big Land, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2010 2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
* 2010 Contemporary woven tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop and ceramic work by members of Ceramics Victoria, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria
* 2010 52 — a print exchange portfolio, Shell Regional Arts Program, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
* 2009 QUIET!, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2009 2009 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
* 2009 Contemporary Woven Tapestries, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2009 Abstraction 2009, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2008 Small Tapestries: 2009 Collection, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2008 Bias Bound, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2008 Salon 2008: Photographic, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2008 von Guerard to von Stumer — aspect of a collection, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
* 2007 Stephen Mc Laughlan at FOURTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS, FOURTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2007 Sci-Fi 2007, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2006 Twelfth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2006 John Leslie Art Prize 2006, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
* 2006 White mantle: the winter landscape in Australian art, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
* 2006 Sylvan Shades, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2006 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Prize, Swan Hill Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2005 bestiary, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2004 Imagining the Future, Lab 3000 Digital Design Biennale 2004, Melbourne Museum, Victoria
* 2004 Between Three Silences, Ord Minett Foyer Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2004 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2004 Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2004 A Humble Gesture, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2003 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2004 City of Banyule Works on Paper Art Award, City of Banyule, Ivanhoe, Victoria
* 2004 Darebin–La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre & La Trobe University Museum of
* Art, Bundoora, Victoria
* 2004 National Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
* 2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
* 2004 Sleeps with Angels — Sex & Death, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2004 Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2002 Figure Out, Mass Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2002 2002 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2002 Abstract Painting — Salon 2002, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2001 The Eighteenth McGregor Prize for Photography, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland
* 2001 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2001 Summer Stock, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 2000 Gallery Artists, Byron + Mapp Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
* 2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, Victoria
* 2000 Some Photographs, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1999 Christmas Show, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales 1999 7th International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney, New South Wales
* 1999 4th Anniversary Exhibition, Byron + Mapp, Sydney, New South Wales
* 1999 Contemporary Australian Works on Paper presented by Australian Galleries, Smith & Stoneley, Queensland
* 1999 Contemporary Australian Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
* 1999 Visy Board Art Prize, Barossa Valley, South Australia
* 1999 Selected Works from Goddard de Fiddes Gallery Perth, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1999 Summer Salon 1999, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1998 Double Dialogues, Deakin University Theatreworks, Victoria
* 1998 Selected Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
* 1998 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
* 1998 Works on Paper, 1998, Stephen McLaughlan, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1998 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
* 1998 13 Artists Recent Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales
* 1998 Pictures from the Collection, Byron + Mapp Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
* 1998 9 x 5 by Twenty-Five, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1998 Summer Stock, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1998 Summer Salon 1998, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1997 13th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
* 1997 2D/3D, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
* 1996/97 Non- Objective Presence, Australian Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales & Melbourne, Victoria
* 1996 Two Australian Painters: Allan Mitelman and Stephen Wickham, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
* 1996 The XLR8 Summer Salon 1996, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1995 The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, La Trobe University Art Museum, Victoria
* 1995 9x5 Exhibition, Anti-Grand Prix Exhibition, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1995 Staff Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1995 Out of Stock, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
* 1995 The 1995 Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria
* 1994 No-Name Big Little Picture Show, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1994 Arts Works 6, Gallery 101 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1994 Silent Objects: Non-Objective Art from Melbourne, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton and Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
* 1994 Bezalel Arts, Caulfield Arts Complex, Victoria
* 1994 Recent Acquisitions, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
* 1993 An Exhibition of Contemporary Jewish Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1992 PaperWorks 3 — Scotland, Seagate Gallery, Dundee, UK
* 1992 Then ... and Now, Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Box Hill, Victoria
* 1992 Melbourne Art, Melbourne Artists, Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
* 1990 A.Z. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
* 1990 It All Starts Here, Powell Street Gallery, South Yarra, Victoria
* 1989 Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Arts Centre, Victoria
* 1988 8th Print Biennale, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
* 1987 Australian Contemporary Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria 1987 Six Victorian Artists, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
* 1987 A Group Show, Print Council of Australia, North Melbourne, Victoria
* 1987 Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Arts Centre, Victoria
* 1986 Australian Landscape Photographed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria 1987 Invitation Print Exhibition, Reconnaissance, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1987 Six Victorian Printmakers, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Queensland
* 1987 7th Print Biennale, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
* 1987 Members Prints, Print Council of Australia, North Melbourne, Victoria
* 1987 Prints To Cuba, Australian Artists Exchange to Cuba, Cuba, United States of America
* 1985 Proofs Exhibition, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
* 1985 Exchange Exhibition USA, Print Council of Australia, North Melbourne, Victoria
* 1984 Emerging Victorian Printmakers, Mitchelton Exhibition, La Trobe University Gallery & Benalla Art Gallery
* 1984 Sculptors As Craftsmen, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1984 6th Print Biennale, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
* 1983 Proof Exhibition, Victorian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria
* 1982 Landscape Australia, National Gallery of Vi== Department ==of Photography, Victoria
* 1980 Forty Australian Artists, Adelaide Festival of Arts, South Australia
* 1980 Air Show, Contemporary Art Space, Adelaide, South Australia
* 1979 Selected Works from The Mitchell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1975 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Department of Photography, Melbourne, Victoria

## Collections

* 2018 Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of The Lewers Bequest. Paintings.
* 2018 Wollongong Art Gallery. Painting.
* 2018 Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of The Lewers Bequest. Paintings.
* 2018 Wollongong Art Gallery. Painting.
* 2017 Deakin University. Painting.
* 2017 State of Library of Victoria, Photographs, lithographs.
* 2016 Deakin University, Works on paper.
* 2016 Deakin University, Photographs.
* 2015 RACV Collection. Photographs.
* 2014 Geelong Gallery. Painting.
* 2014 MAMA. Murray Art Museum Albury. Photographs.
* 2014 Counihan Gallery, Brunswick. Silver Prints.
* 2013 Deakin University, Painting
* 2012 La Trobe Regional Gallery. Colour Photographs.
* 2011 The Arts Centre Gold Coast. Painting and photographs.
* 2010 Burnie Regional Art Gallery Print Collection, Dry point Etching.
* 2009 The Peter Mac Art Collection, Painting installation.
* 2009 Warrnambool Art Gallery, Multi-coloured lithograph and etchings.
* 2008 Australian Embassy Washington DC, Colour photographs.
* 2008 McClelland Gallery, Suite of drawings.
* 2005 Deakin University, Colour photographs.
* 2004 Monash Gallery of Art, Colour photographs.
* 2003 National Gallery of Australia, Lithographs.
* 2003 Australia Print Workshop Archive 2, Lithographs.
* 2003 Works on paper New England Regional Art Museum. Works on paper.
* 2001 Geelong Gallery, Works on paper.
* 2001 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Photographs.
* 2001 State of Library of Victoria, Colour photographs.
* 1998 Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Lithographs.
* 1998 National Library of Australia, Photographs.
* 1998 Art Bank, Paintings.
* 1996 National Gallery of Australia, Multi-coloured lithographs.
* 1995 University of Melbourne Art Collection, Etchings.
* 1995 New England Regional Art Museum. Works on paper.
* 1995 McClelland Gallery, Etchings.
* 1994 State Library of Victoria Picture Collection, Ciba-chrome prints.
* 1994 Council of Adult Education, Melbourne, Multi-coloured lithograph.
* 1994 McClelland Gallery, Etchings.
* 1993 Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Etchings and SX-70 polaroids.
* 1993 National Gallery of Victoria, Etchings.
* 1993 McClelland Gallery, Suite of drawings.
* 1993 State Library of Victoria Picture Collection, Silver prints, polaroids and assemblages.
* 1993 Horsham Regional Art Centre, Silver prints.
* 1993 Camberwell Grammar Art Collection, Drawing
* 1990 Victorian College of the Arts Collection, Lithographs
* 1989 State Library of Victoria Picture Collection, Ciba-chrome photographs & silver prints
* 1988 Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, Lithographs.
* 1987 Art Bank, Etchings.
* 1987 National Gallery of Victoria, Department of Photography, Ciba-chrome photographs.
* 1987 Victorian Print Workshop, Etchings.
* 1986 Art Bank, Lithographs.
* 1986 City of Waverley Collection, Etchings.
* 1986 Commission for The Future, Lithographs.
* 1986 Print Council of Australia, Member print.
* 1985 City of Box Hill Art Collection, Lithograph.
* 1984 Albury Regional Art Gallery, Silver prints.
* 1984 City of Box Hill Art Collection, Silver prints.
* 1984 Box Hill College of TAFE, Silver prints.
* 1983 National Gallery of Victoria, Department of Photography, Silver prints.
* 1983 Victorian Print Workshop, Lithographs.
* 1982 National Gallery of Victoria, Department of Photography, Kodak instant photographs.
* 1978 National Gallery of Victoria, Michelle Endowment, Painting.

## Awards

* 1975 National Gallery of Victoria, Department of Photography, Silver prints.
* 2007 Artist in Residence, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1996 Landscape Photography Prize, Centre for Contemporary Photography Summer Salon, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1974 Hugh Ramsay Drawing Prize, National Gallery School, Melbourne, Victoria
* 1974 Special Jury Prize for Portraiture, Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria

## Publications

* Green, C. & Wickham, S.,“Abstract”, West, Dr. Rex Butler (Editor), 1991
* Heathcote, C. R. (Christopher Robin); Willis, Leanne, (Introduction by.) (Author of introduction); Wickham, Stephen, 1953-, (Introduction by.) (Author of introduction) (2017), The Void. Visible : Abstraction and Non-Objective Art, Deakin University - Art Gallery, ISBN 978-0-9944025-9-2 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Wickham, Stephen; Icon Museum of Art (2004), Stephen Wickham : "... from Stefan Weisz for Georg Weisz ...", Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, ISBN 978-0-7300-2615-0
