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

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.^[6]
• 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) CS1 maint: numeric 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

Bibliography

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• Boddington, Jennie, 1922-; National Gallery of Victoria (1987), Australian contemporary photographers : John Anthong Delacour, Peter Elliston, Jillian Gibb, Ruth Maddison, David Stephenson and Stephen Wickham, National Gallery of Victoria, retrieved 25 January 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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References

External links

• Artist website