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indigo dyed, layered, salvaged textiles (bedsheets) dimensions variable, 30'' high
Wellisch graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors in 2016 from Griffith Univer- sity, Australia. Currently, she is a post-confirmation doctoral candidate and tutor at Griffith University, and a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society. Winner of the 2016 St. Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Art Prize, she has been a finalist for the Wan- garatta Contemporary Textile Award, the Northern Beaches Art Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, BAM Art Prize, Blackstone Works on Paper Prize, and Lake Prize. Artist residencies include Shankill Castle in Ireland, House Conspiracy in Brisbane, and Art Quarter Budapest in Hungary. She was awarded an Arts Queensland Grant in 2018, a National Assistance Pro- gram for the Arts Grant in 2020, and has exhibited in Australia, Ireland, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Her work is held in the St. Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital collection, the Westin Hotel in Perth, Crown Towers in Sydney, and in private collections within Austra- lia, the United Kingdom, France, and Ireland.
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