Born
Canberra, Australia, 17th March 1975
1991 Art and Design Wangaratta
T.A.F.E
1994-1998 Bachelor
of Fine Arts in Sculpture with Honours. University of Tasmania, Hobart
Solo Exhibitions
1998 Diagnosis Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
1999 Absorb Filter Foyer
Installation Gallery, Hobart
2000
Obscure Agave
Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2006
Masks and the Gold Series
Studio 101, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
1994 Art from Trash Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
Collective Self Couch
Culture Art Space, Hobart
Sense and Sensitivity Fine
Arts Gallery, Hobart
1995
Kissing the Blue Tongue The
Long Gallery, Hobart
Effigy Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
Natural Weaving Forest Heritage Centre,
Hobart
Sensus Interim Couch Culture Art Space, Hobart
Installation Little Space Gallery, Hobart
1997 Hatched, National Graduates Show PICA
Gallery, Perth
The Prize Foyer Installation Space, Hobart
When a Man Loves a Vermin Banana Moon Gallery, Hobart
Bunnies and Flowers Little Space Gallery, Hobart
Small Works Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart
1998
2nd
Diagnosis
The Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart
Peep Show Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
In House Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
Chance Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
1999 Doll
Object Gallery, Sydney
The Doll Show Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
Absorb Filter 2 Avago Gallery, Hobart
2000 Too
Weave Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Broken Hill
2005 Sensory Overload Japan, Katipo Café Deluxe, Sydney
2007 Arts on Bourke Art Competition Arts on Bourke, Sydney
Pocket
Sculptures
A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney
2008 SeVen Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Pooch A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney
1992
Subject
Prize in Life Drawing
Hobart Matriculation
College
S&L
Credit Union Prize in Print Making
Hobart Matriculation
College
1993
Iain MacDonald Prize for Art.
Hobart
Matriculation College
Photo of Effigies The Australian
Newspaper 1997
Chan, Dean ‘Panic (at) Hatched’ surveys work and issues at
the National Graduate show at PICA, pg 41. Photo and article in Real Time Magazine
August-September.1997
Snell, Ted ‘Hatched’ Art and Australia No 2 1997 Vol 35, pg 294 &295 1997
Snell, Ted ‘Gloom cast aside with
artistic flourish’
1997
Andersch,
Joerg ‘A Very Human Diagnosis’ The Mercury 1998
Fletcher,
Kate
Review of ‘Diagnosis’ in The Tasmanian Basket Maker’s Newsletter 1998
Fletcher,
Kate ‘Diagnosis-Minka Gillian’
in Textile Fibre Forum No. 54 1999
Andersch,
Joerg Review of ‘Absorb-Filter’ The Saturday Mercury 1999
Photos of work ‘Doll’
Like, Art Magazine pg. 18 Winter 1999
Walker,
Wendy Review
of ‘Doll’ The Advertiser 22nd
April pg.40 1999
Walker, Wendy ‘Well Hello Dolly!
Goodbye Adelaide Artspace?’ Object pg.31
32 1999
Andrews, Ron ‘Minka
Gillian:Sculpture and
Textile’ The Alien Japan Zine February 2000
1992-1999 Member
of the Basket makers of Tasmania.
1993-1994 Member
of the Art Society of Tasmania Inc.
1996 Member,
Couch Culture Gallery Committee.
1997 Member, Gallery Dunce Committee.
1998/99 Member, CAST,
Tasmania
1998/99 Voluntary
tour guide Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery.
2007/8 Member of Studio Crit
group SeVen,
Sydney