About Winsome Spiller
Winsome Spiller is an artist living and working in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.
Her works span painting, installation, outdoor projects, digital images and objects.
Deeply committed to experimentation with materials and processes, her work often concerns the urban environment, history, landscape and natural processes - expressed in both non figurative and figurative ways.
Winsome holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours, first class) from RMIT university and a Bachelor of Town and Regional Planning from the University of Melbourne.
Since 2004 she has held solo exhibitions in commercial and not for profit galleries and her works are held in private collections and the collection of Artbank.
Until recently she edited publications for an urban economics consultancy, and has also worked as a town planner.
Contacts
email winsome.spiller@gmail.com
mobile +61 418534346
studio Parslow Street Studios, 1 Parslow Street, Clifton Hill VIC 3068 Australia
Enquiries and purchases
For enquiries and purchases of works shown on this website, please contact West End Art Space gallery
www.westendartspace.com.au 112 Adderley Street, West Melbourne Victoria 3003, Australia
or Winsome Spiller at the above contacts.
Biography
Born Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Honours (First Class), RMIT University, 2010.
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) with Distinction, RMIT University, 2009
Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts), RMIT, 2002
Bachelor of Town and Regional Planning, Melbourne University, 1977
Solo Exhibitions
July 2024 Works In Progress: Untessellations, Parslow Street Studios Gallery, Clifton Hill
December 2023 Transfigure, West End Art Space gallery, West Melbourne
February 2023 Paintscapes, West End Art Space gallery, West Melbourne
September 2018 Archaeology of practice 2, Red gallery, Fitzroy North
September 2016 Archaeology of Practice, Langford120 gallery, North Melbourne
June 2016 This turns into That: Abstract works, Long Division Gallery, Melbourne
June 2013 The Transformer Room, The Newport Substation, Melbourne
May 2012 Returning to the Surface, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
October 2008 Lost Topography, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
July 2007 Unseenery, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
April 2004 Things you can’t see, red Gallery, Melbourne
Solo projects
March 2015 Laneway Lace, (commissioned mural painted on gate), lane at rear of Egremont Street North Fitzroy
Group Exhibitions
June 2024, Stockroom Showcase: small works, West End Art Space gallery, West MElbourne
May 2024 Omnia Art Prize exhibition (shortlisted), St Kevin’s Collage, Toorak
April 2024 Cut & Composed, exhibition of collage works, West End Art Space gallery, West Melbournea\
November 2022 Of Colour and Light, the West End Art Space biennial, West End Art Space gallery. West Melbourne
December 2019, Friends and family exhibition, Daine Singer Gallery, Fitzroy
July 2018, Papercutz, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North
February 2018, Edge, Langford120 gallery, North Melbourne
September 2017, Gippsland Print Award, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.
August 2014 Blue on Blue, Langford120 gallery, North Melbourne
June 2014 Australia & Italia - Foto & Photos Photographic Competition finalists exhibition, Italian Cultural Institute, South Yarra
December 2013 Christmas: Bah Humbug D11 Artist space, Docklands, Melbourne
July 2013 D11 Supporters Group Show, D11 Artist Space, Docklands, Melbourne
February 2011 3Day.01 Dear Patti Smith artist run initiative, Fitzroy
December 2010 Siemens Fine Art Awards exhibition, RMIT Gallery.
November 2010 Honours Painting Graduate exhibition, RMIT School of Art
December 2009 Anita Traverso Gallery group show
November 2009 Graduate Exhibition, RMIT School of Art
February 2007 The Only Constant, Anita Traverso Gallery
September 2006 It's a Spring Thing, Artefact Gallery
June 2006 The End of Financial year show, Artefact Gallery
November 2005 Red stocking show, red gallery, Melbourne
Collections
Collection of Artbank
Works in private collections
Further information
Artist's website www.winsomespiller.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/winsome.spiller/
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