Stephen Wickham (born 1950) 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 Solo 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, VictoriaCrawford, A., 'From Stefan Weisz for George Weisz', The Sunday Age, 6 June 2004 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, VictoriaFaust, B., 'Landscape Art Flourishes In The Wilderness', The Age, 20 June 1984 1982 Sites for A Contemporary Ritual, Queensland College of Arts, Queensland
Group 2019 XXV + Celebrate. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria. 2019 Annual group exhibition. Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales. 2019 New Modern. RNOP Melbourne. 2019 The Road Paintings. 5 Walls Projects, Victoria. 2019 Sights Unseen. Moreland City Council art collection. Melbourne, Victoria. 2018 Beyond the Field (Still). Contemporary Art Tasmania. 2018 De Natured. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria. 2018 '50 years after The Field". Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales. 2018 LEGACY, Your collection. Our Story. Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. 2018 Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham City Art Gallery. 2018 #Abstraction 2018. Deakin University, Langford 120, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, 5 Walls Projects, Victoria. 2018 Print Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales. 2018 Edge. Langford 120, Melbourne, Victoria. 2017 The Void-Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art. Deakin University Gallery. Victoria.Willis, L., Deakin University Collection. A Selection of Works. 2017. 2017 Reductive-Non-Objective Private Gallery. Kiosk Show Katoomba Falls. NSW. 2017 VCA ART 150 Scholarship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne. 2017 Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham City Art Gallery. 2017 Ad Hoc. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2016-17 Visions of Utopia, Wollongong Art Gallery, Penrith art Centre. 2016 Nearly Monochrome, 5 Walls Projects, Footscray Victoria. 2016 0+1. Digital Prints, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2016 Neo-0-10 #2. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2016 Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales 2016 McClelland Collection, McClelland Gallery, Victoria 2016 Limited Edition, Burnie Regional Art Gallery 2015 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards. Geelong Gallery 2015 Grid: Matrix Module Myth. Langford 120, Melbourne, Victoria. 2015 NEO-0-10 works on paper. McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria. 2015 Print Award. Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria 2015 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award. Fremantle Western Australia 2015 10th Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Marrickville, New South Wales 2015 The Burnie Print Prize. Burnie Regional Art Gallery 2015 Digital Reductive. 5 Walls Projects, Footscray Victoria. 2014-2015 ELEMENTA. La Trobe regional Gallery and Gippsland Art Gallery Collection Exhibition. 2014 Gold Coast Art Prize 2014, The Art Centre Gold Coast, Queensland. 2014 Works on Paper 2014. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2014 Abstraction 13, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2014 Paper @ Factory 49. Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales 2014 Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales 2014 National Works on Paper Awards. MPRG, Victoria 2014 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award. Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria 2014 Dark: More than Black. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2013 14 SNO 100. SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, New South Wales 2013 14 Splash! From the Permanent Collections. New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales 2013 Squaring up. Langford 120, 120 Langford Street, Melbourne, Victoria 2013 Black Echo, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2013 Abstraction 12, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2013 SNO 99, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, New South Wales 2013 Factory 49 @ Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2013 Annual Group Exhibition, Factory 49, Sydney, New South Wales 2013 All breathing in heaven, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria 2013 2013 Geelong acquisitive print awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria 2012/13 Gold Coast Art Prize 2012, The Art Centre Gold Coast, Queensland 2012 Abstraction 11, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2012 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria 2012 Five decades of abstraction, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria 2012 Non-objective – present. Langford 120, 120 Langford Street, Melbourne, Victoria 2012 Recent Acquisitions, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales 2011 and now, regarding that modernist remark abstraction, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2011 My Australia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan 2011 Contemporary Landscapes, Colour Factory Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2011 Beyond Big Land, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria 2011 New Romantics, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria 2011 New Romantics, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2010/11 The Naked Face: Self-portraits, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria 2010/11 Beyond Big Land, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2010 2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria 2010 Contemporary woven tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop and ceramic work by members of Ceramics Victoria, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria 2010 52 — a print exchange portfolio, Shell Regional Arts Program, Geelong Gallery, Victoria 2009 QUIET!, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2009 2009 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Victoria 2009 Contemporary Woven Tapestries, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Victoria 2009 Abstraction 2009, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2008 Small Tapestries: 2009 Collection, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria 2008 Bias Bound, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2008 Salon 2008: Photographic, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2008 von Guerard to von Stumer — aspect of a collection, Geelong Gallery, Victoria 2007 Stephen Mc Laughlan at FOURTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS, FOURTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS, Melbourne, Victoria 2007 Sci-Fi 2007, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2006 Twelfth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2006 John Leslie Art Prize 2006, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria 2006 White mantle: the winter landscape in Australian art, Geelong Gallery, VictoriaSullivan, L., White Mantle: The Winter Landscape in Australian Art, Geelong Gallery, 2006 2006 Sylvan Shades, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2006 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Prize, Swan Hill Art Gallery, Victoria 2005 bestiary, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2004 Imagining the Future, Lab 3000 Digital Design Biennale 2004, Melbourne Museum, Victoria 2004 Between Three Silences, Ord Minnett Foyer Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2004 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria 2004 Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria 2004 A Humble Gesture, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2003 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria 2004 City of Banyule Works on Paper Art Award, City of Banyule, Ivanhoe, Victoria 2004 Darebin–La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre & La Trobe University Museum of Art, Bundoora, Victoria 2004 National Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Victoria 2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria 2004 Sleeps with Angels — Sex & Death, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2004 Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria 2002 Figure Out, Mass Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2002 2002 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria 2002 Abstract Painting — Salon 2002, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2001 The Eighteenth McGregor Prize for Photography, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland 2001 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria 2001 Summer Stock, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2000 Gallery Artists, Byron + Mapp Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales 2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, Victoria 2000 Some Photographs, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, VictoriaMakin, J., 'Some Photographs (Critic's Choice)', Herald Sun, September 2000 1999 Christmas Show, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales 1999 7th International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney, New South Wales 1999 4th Anniversary Exhibition, Byron + Mapp, Sydney, New South Wales 1999 Contemporary Australian Works on Paper presented by Australian Galleries, Smith & Stoneley, Queensland 1999 Contemporary Australian Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales 1999 Visy Board Art Prize, Barossa Valley, South Australia