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
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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