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.
Read MoreGilligan has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at West Space, Daine Singer, Rear View and Dudspace and group exhibitions at Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada; Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles; PICA, Perth; Papermill ARI, Sydney; Knight Street Art Space, George Paton Gallery and Gilligan Grant Gallery, Melbourne. Recently Minna has performed at The National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney) with Pamela – a three piece band comprising of artists Jon Campbell and Georgina Glanville. Pamela has also been involved in performances with Geoff Lowe and A Constructed World at Artspace (Sydney) and the Ian Potter Museum of Art (Melbourne).
Gilligan also maintains an illustration practice as an artist for New York-based online magazine ROOKIE and other American clients such as clothing companies Urban Outfitters and Nasty Gal. In 2011 she became a member of artist collective The Ardorous, curated by Canadian photographer Petra Collins.
Text courtesy Daine Singer.
