Minna Gilligan
Minna Gilligan works primarily with painting, drawing and collage. Her practice speaks of fleeting, personal encounters with the past and present, and manifests in a tumultuous reconciliation of both. Her works are playgrounds of colour, often inhabited by lone protagonists trapped in states of longing, sadness or exhalation. Though her paintings reference 1960s/ ‘70s psychedelia and evoke a nostalgic romanticism - with lone women floating in technicolor dreams - her work is atemporal, existing in a utopian space of imagery filtered through the digital realm.
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Minna Gilligan has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Castlemaine Art Museum, Daine Singer, Melbourne Art Fair, Spring 1883, West Space, TCB Art Inc, Rear View and Dudspace (Melbourne) and participated in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), National Galley of Australia (Canberra), Heide Museum of Art (Melbourne), Alt Space (New York), Ontario College of Art and Design (Canada), Space 15 Twenty (Los Angeles), PICA (Perth), Spring 1883 (Sydney), Papermill ARI (Sydney), and in Melbourne at Knight Street Art Space, TCB Art Inc, George Paton Gallery and Gilligan Grant Gallery.
Gilligan has published three books: Time After Time (Hardie Grant Australia/ Rizzoli New York, 2015), Poems, Prayers and Promises (commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, 2015), and So Far (Bywater Bros, Canada, 2016). Gilligan has been a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary and her work is in the National Gallery of Australia and Deakin University collections. As part of the band Pamela, she has performed at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Daine Singer (Melbourne), Darren Knight Gallery (Sydney) and the Ian Potter Museum of Art (Melbourne). -
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Minna Gilligan (born 1990 Melbourne, lives Melbourne)
Education
2012 Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts
2011 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) at the Victorian College of the ArtsSolo Exhibitions
2023 Small World, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2020 Any Wonder, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2018 We've only just begun, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2018 Rhinestone Cowgirl, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2017 Mystery to Me, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2017 Groove is in the Heart, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, curated by Emma Busowsky Cox
2016 Let Love Shine, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2015 On a clear day you can see forever, Gertrude Contemporary, Studio 12, Melbourne
2014 Long time no see, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2014 Almost Forever, Spring 1883, Melbourne >>
2014 Melbourne Art Fair Creative Space, Melbourne >>
2014 Memory Motel, TCB art inc, Melbourne
2013 Feel Flows, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2013 Holiday Inn, West Space, Melbourne
2012 Not In Kansas Anymore, Dudspace, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2012 Halos and Plateaus, Rearview ARI, Melbourne (with Georgina Glanville)Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Spring1883, Melbourne
2021 Six Flags, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2020 Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2020 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2018 POP! Reflections on Popular Culture, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta
2018 On a Tangent, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
2018 PAPERWORK?, Second Space Projects, Melbourne
2016 I Heart Rock, Arts Projects Australia, curated by Emma Busowsky Cox, Melbourne
2016 Gertrude Studio Artists 2016, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2016 Dancing Umbrellas, curated by Sue Cramer, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2015 Spring 1883 at The Establishment, Sydney
2015 Streetwise: Contemporary Print Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2015 NGV Art Book Fair: commission, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2015 Take Me Home Tonight, Alt Space, New York
2014 Faux Museum, C3, Melbourne
2014 Dummy, Mailbox, Melbourne
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2013 PICA Salon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2013 The Kenneth Biennale, TCB Art, Melbourne
2013 Blue miles for the ocean, green miles through the palm trees, and yellow miles over sandy stretches, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2013 Period Piece, Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) Student Gallery, Canada
2012 Strange Magic, Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, California
2012 Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2012 True Self, Melbourne’s GPO, Melbourne
2012 No Soda, Knight Street Art Space, Melbourne
2011 Is It Straight? George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2011 The Kids Are Alright, Papermill ARI, Sydney
2011 Object de Winter, Gilligan Grant Gallery, MelbourneSelected Performances
2015 Pamela at Geelong Art Gallery
2014 Pamela at Hell’s Kitchen, Melbourne
2013 Pamela at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2013 Pamela at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2013 Pamela for A Constructed World at Artspace, Sydney
2012 Pamela at ‘Just Sing What You Feel’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012 Pamela at ‘Shit Yeah’ (Art Bar), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2012 A Constructed World, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2012 Event Horizon, Conical ARI, MelbournePublications
2016 Minna Gilligan, So Far, Bywater Bros, Canada >>
2015 Minna Gilligan, Time After Time, Hardie Grant, Melbourne/ Rizzoli, New York >>
2015 Minna Gilligan, Poems, Prayers and Promises, National Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneBibliography
2022 Gardening Australia, ‘My Garden Path - Minna Gilligan’, ABC iview, 18 November, 2022 >>
2020 Abigail Crompton, Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists, Thames and Hudson
2016 Andrew Stephens, 'Artist who walked Paris dressed only in umbrellas brings playful result to Melbourne' The Age, 19 Feb 2016 >>
2015 Jordan G Teicher, 'Honest and Bold Photos of Young Womanhood Taken by Young Women' Slate, 23 June >>
2015 'Minna Gilligan on how nostalgia influences her art', Dumbo Feather, video >>
2015 Petra Collins, Babe, Prestel/ Random House
2014 Julia Hobbs, ‘Hyper Psychedelia’, Vogue, UK, December
2014 Neha Kale, ‘Five female artists you should invest in now’, Daily Life, 28 November 2014
2014 Madeleine Dore, ‘Pop-ups level the playing field’, ArtsHub, 4 November 2014
2014 Joe Scott, Lack, Longing, Desire: Minna Gilligan’s ‘Long Time No See’ >>
2014 Joe Scott, Q&A: Minna Gilligan >>
2014 Christina Apostolidis, ‘Long Time No See’, catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014 Philippa Hawker, ‘Minna Gilligan finds art of the self in spirit of the past’, The Age, 9 August 2014 >>
2014 Amelia Barnes, ‘Minna Gilligan’s Suite at Spring 1883′, Broadsheet, 15 August 2014 >>
2014 Maura Edmond, ‘Minna Gilligan interview’, Primer, 8 August 2014 >>
2014 Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, ‘A buzz of love at the opening of Melbourne Art Fair’, The Age, 13 August 2014
2014 Troy Nankervis, ‘Finding the inner child through art’, Arts Hub, 7 August 2014 >>
2014 Georgia Jones, NGV Gallery Magazine, Melbourne, Jan/Feb 2014
2014 Lisa Marie Corso, The Design Files, 17 March 2014 >>
2014 Tavi Gevinson x Minna Gilligan, Nowness, April 2014 >>
2014 Tavi Gevinson and Minna Gilligan, Printed Pages, Spring 2014 >>
2014 Emily Sexton, Smart Arts, RRR FM, 2 January 2014
2014 Petra Collins, ‘The Ardorous Manifesto’, Dazed and Confused, 14 February 2014 >>
2014 Rachel Eddie, Vertigo Magazine, Issue One, Sydney, pp.34-35 >>
2013 Dylan Rainforth, ‘Musical touch to exhibition premiere’, The Age, 5 June 2013
2013 Minna Gilligan, NGV Blog >>
2013 Alicia Eler, 'There are mirrors in paradise’, cat. essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2013 Kate Durbin, ‘All the dreaming girls: the art of Minna Gilligan’, cat. essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2013 Penny Webb, Around the galleries, The Age Melbourne Magazine, 31 May 2013
2013 Rob Wilkes, ‘Wave Hello to Nostalgia’, We Heart >>
2013 Brodie Lancaster, ‘Interview: Minna Gilligan’, Everguide, June 2013 >>
2013 Dan Rule, ‘In the galleries’, The Age, 22 June 2013 >>
2013 Penny Modra, The Thousands, June 2013 >>
2013 Yen Magazine, November 2013
2013 Alexandra Christie, ‘Art Alert: Minna Gilligan’, Yen Magazine, 30 April 2013 >>
2013 Bianca Valentino, ‘Artist Minna Gilligan’s Bright, Beautiful, Psychedelic Universe’, Conversations With Bianca, 7 Jan 2013 >>
2013 Sunday Herald Sun Magazine, 27 May 2013
2013 ‘Yellowtrace Spotlight’, Yellowtrace, June 2013
2013 Francesca Carter, ‘Style Rookies’, The Weekly Review, 15 August 2013
2013 ‘Tavi Gevinson is coming to Australia’, The Age, 10 July 2013 >>
2012 Philippa Hawker, ‘Local artists paint bright picture for online girls’ mag’, The Age, 27 Oct 2012, p.3 >>
2012 Simone Magazine, France, Issue 6, p.76
2012 Marissa Shirbin, ‘Minna Gilligan: Not in Kansas Anymore’, The Thousands, July 2012 >>
2012 Liv Siddall, ‘Peer inside the dreamy, retro mind of Rookie Magazine’s Minna Gilligan’, It’s Nice That, 17 July, 2012 >>
2012 Lara Burke, ‘Minna Gilligan’s collages – an interview’, Frankie Magazine, 6 Feb 2012 >>
2012 ‘Surf daze interview: Minna Gilligan’, Urban Outfitters Blog >>
2012 ‘Blogueras y artistas’, Notodo >>Collections
National Gallery of Australia
Deakin University
National Library of Australia
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Loreto Mandeville Hall
