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Artist Statement:
Wayne Quilliam is one of the
few professional Australian
Aboriginal Photographers
working at local and
international levels.
With more than 15 years
experience working in all
areas of photography including
social documentary, sport,
tourism, fashion,weddings,
movies, event documentation
and exhibitions, Wayne is
recognised as a leading
contemporary in his ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Art Centre Berlin 'Lowanna'
series June 2008
Museum of Young Art, Vienna
July 2008
Incinerator Gallery Melbourne,
Australia 2008
Manningham Gallery Melbourne,
Australia 2008
Boscia Gallery, Melbourne 2008
Melbourne Art Show 2008
Koori Heritage Trust
Melbourne, Australia
Macau, China
Art Centre Berlin 2007
Sydney Opera House 08
Kluge Ruhe Museum, ...
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Artist Galleries:
Art Centre Berlin (Germany)
Southby's Auction House (New
York)
Museum of Young Art, Vienna
Austria
Ngoloo Wurru (Melbourne)
Boscia Gallery (Melbourne)
Linden Gallery (Melbourne)
Gasworks Gallery (Melbourne)
Powerhouse Museum (Sydney,
Australia)
National Gallery (Canberra,
Australia)
Kyoto Museum (Kyoto, Japan)
UTS (Melbourne)
Incinerator Gallery
(Melbourne)
Macchiato (Canberra,
Australia)
Logan Art ...
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Artist Reviews:
Shades of Black, at Alliance
Francais de Canberra
Tasmanian-born Aboriginal
photographer Wayne Quilliam
has spent most of his life
living with indigenous
communities across Australia.
His exhibition, Shades of
Black now showing at Alliance
francais, reflects this broad
cultural education and offers
the viewer an entry into the
varied ...
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Collections:
Southebys ( New York )
Lawson Menzies ( Sydney )
Kyoto Museum ( Japan )
Auslottery (Darwin)
http://www.noemalab.com
Art Mob (Tasmania)
Powerhouse Museum (Sydney)
Reconciliation Australia
Melbourne Art Show
Boscia Gallery
National Gallery of
Victoria...
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Commissions:
Russel Crowe
Koori Business Network
Festivals Australia, Sydney,
Australia
Rio Tinto, Melbourne,
Australia
Southerby's, New York, USA
Fred Hollows Foundation,
Sydney
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
Cirque De Soleil, Canada
City of Melbourne
Caritas
Deetya
Tourism Australia
United Nations
Laura Festival
Department of Foreign Affairs
Human Rights Commission
National Institute ...
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Wayne Quilliam Biography:
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Age
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45
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
Aboriginal |
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| Education |
Professional Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Black and White
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Photorealism - (1965 - 1975)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
not provided
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
My family and culture have supported the creative freedom one needs to grow as a person and an artist. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Evolution |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Wayne Quilliam 2008
He has recently returned to Melbourne from overseas and thought you may be interested in his amazing journey over the past the past 12 months.
Commissioned by Russell Crowe to shoot a 1940’s New York style series of images at Pellegrini’s in Melbourne.
Invited to Mexico by the Todanaca people in Posta Rica to photograph one of the biggest Indigenous festivals in the world ‘Cumbre Tahjin’, where more than three hundred thousand attended. Fifty of those images are now touring Mexico in the celebration of the Flying Volodures Circus. He will return to Mexico early 2009 to open an exhibition of 150 images of Mexican and Aboriginal images commissioned by the Mexican office of Cultural affairs, these images will be 3 metres by 3 metres and displayed in public spaces throughout Mexico City. Negotiations are underway to tour this work throughout South America, USA and then Australia in 2009.
Official photographer for the ‘Apology’ in Canberra, his images were published across the world and an exhibition of the photographs is touring Australia. The ‘Sorry’ exhibition has appeared in 5 different galleries throughout Victoria and a select number of the limited edition images are hanging in State and Federal Buildings. A book celebrating the first anniversary is in production.
Launched an exhibition at one of Germany’s biggest art galleries. ‘Lowanna’ a series of modern Aboriginal nudes was opened by Mr Ian Kemish the Ambassador to Germany at Art Centre Berlin and due to the popularity of the show has been extended to December 2008.
Wayne’s Indigenous and landscapes images will provide the backdrop to the launch of the new ‘Australia’ movie in Germany later this year with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
Will appear on BBC television in the ‘Last Tycoon’ series that will go to air in November, his artwork will also feature in the promotion of the series.
Is Melbourne fashion label ‘GASP’s’ photographer and working with Miss Australia runner-up Michelle McNamee for magazines across the country.
Commissioned to develop artwork for the second television series of ‘Sensations’ filmed in Melbourne.
Photographer and Art Ambassador for the national Silverchair and PowderFinger, ‘Across the Great Divide Tour’. The concert tour by two of Australia’s biggest bands incorporated over 60 photographs by Wayne into their onstage performances and websites. Wayne worked with numerous schools and community organisations throughout the country on developing culturally relevant imaging which has also been utilised by Paul Kelly, Xavier Rudd and Blue King Brown.
Photographer for Australia’s largest gathering of Aboriginal people ‘Garma Festival’ in the Northern Territory, Wayne’s images appeared on the cover of every major newspaper in Australia and the work has been reproduced over 300 times in publications across the world.
2007-2008 Wayne will have had more than 15 solo exhibitions and 10 joint exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Austria, France, USA, Mexico and Bolivia.
‘Close the Gap’ Campaign in partnership with OXFAM was one of the many International programs Wayne produced photographs for and are featured on Billboards, magazines, posters and on television in Australia, USA and Europe.
Headlined the ‘Global Art’ exhibition in Vienna, Austria. Some of the world’s most prominent artists were invited to show their work at the Museum of Young Art as a part of a global art show. The European Union ambassador and President of Austria opened the event; Wayne’s work headlined the show and was also the only Australian invited. He has now been invited to return in 2009.
Travelled to La Paz, Bolivia to photograph and document the people for a global aid campaign beginning in 2009.
The Australian Ambassador to Mexico hosted Wayne’s ‘Lowanna Emergence’ exhibition series at the official residence in Mexico City, two of the artworks are now a permanent part of the Australian Embassy Art Collection.
Jodie Bujok 03 93951333
Wayne Quilliam 0413 812222 wqphotography@optusnet.com.au
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