Stephen Wickham

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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• Artist website