Bettina Willner

Bettina Willner is an artist working between Naarm (Melbourne) and Gunaikurnai (South Gippsland). Practicing over two decades, Willner draws inspiration from the natural world, helping shape her ceramic sculptures and drawings. Walks in nature along the Gippsland coast bring forth layers of curls, twists, and coils into her hand-built sculptures. Time and the helical nature of ideas and experience also underpin her work, entwined lines like the snakes in Medusa hair wrap and twist around each other. Memory and her subjective relationship to ancient cities, architecture, both organic and of human design are also present in the development of her ideas and forms. Glistening bronze, deep ocean blues, stipples of black and red, pastel pink and sand like glazes coat clay drawings, reflecting the deep thought and connection Willner has to the aura of time and nature. Ornamentation is present in Willner’s work drawing on Baroque aesthetics and art history. Like the helical columns of Bernini’s baldachin, Willner celebrates an ornamentation that desires complexity, metaphysical connection, and multiplicity.


Willner studied at Monash University completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (1988-1991), and Wangaratta TAFE completing a Certificate in Design (1987). She has exhibited widely in Melbourne and Sydney at; Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Caves, Melbourne, Saint Cloche, Sydney, Daine Singer, Melbourne, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne and Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne. Willner has also exhibited in design and art events in Melbourne and Sydney including Spring 1883, Melbourne, NGV Design Fair, Melbourne, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne and Art Fair Sydney Contemporary presents, Sydney. Willner’s work is in private collections, Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Indonesia.

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b. 1969, based in Melbourne, Australia.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


2021

Group show, Ob-ject Re-form, The Hue and Cry Collective, Geelong

NGV Melbourne Design Week, Modern Times

2020

Group show, Smalls, Otomys Contemporary, Melbourne

Eterne with Katie Daniels, Saint Cloche, Sydney

Sydney Contemporary Presents, Virtual presentation

Melbourne Art Fair, Virtual presentation

Rock, with Virginia Cummins, Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne

Holiday Dreaming (group) – Saint Cloche, Sydney

Rock (solo) – Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne Melbourne Design Week (group) – Modern Times, Melbourne

2019

The Wandering Room (group) – Melbourne

2018

Presence (group) – Melbourne

Spring 1883 (Art Fair) – Dutton, New York

Sometimes Strong (solo) – Sarah Scout, Melbourne 2017

Line and Curve (solo) – Red Gallery, Melbourne. 2016

Genuine Relic (group) – Seventh Gallery, Melbourne 2003

Pieces (group) – NinetySix, Melbourne

2002

Women’s Salon (group) – Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

1991

Show Of Hands (group) – Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

EDUCATION


Bachelor of fine art, Monash University, Melbourne Australia (1988-1991)

Certificate of Art and Design, Wangaratta T.A.F.E 1987


RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & PUBLIC ART PROJECTS


2019: Residency International Ceramic Studio, ICS Hungary

2019: Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award – Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

2001: Public Art Project – Moreland Council, Melbourne

1992: Finalist, Walker’s Award – Arts Centre, Gallery One, Melbourne.

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Nereides
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Bettina Willner, Nereides, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 25cm x 28cm x 7.5cm
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Venus Sea Fan
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Bettina Willner, Venus Sea Fan, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 28.5cm x 27cm x 8cm
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Reflection
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Bettina Willner, Reflection, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 33.5cm x 26cm x 1cmcm
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Primavera
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$ 1,600.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Primavera, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 34cm x 27cm x 1cm
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Aurora
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Bettina Willner, Aurora, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 16cm x 17.5cm x 5cm
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Athena
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Bettina Willner, Athena, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 33.5cm x 26cm x 1.5cm
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Atargatis
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Bettina Willner, Atargatis, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 34cm x 26cm x 1.5cm
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Ancient Embroidery
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Bettina Willner, Ancient Embroidery, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 34cm x 25.5cm x 1cm
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Portas
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Bettina Willner, Portas, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 31.5cm x 44cm x 1cm
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Faded Fresco
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$ 1,700.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Faded Fresco, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 34cm x 43cm x 1cm
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Courage
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Bettina Willner, Courage, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 38cm x 34cm x 1cm
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Sand Pattern
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$ 2,200.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Sand Pattern, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 39cm x 34cm x 10.5cm
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Leaded Light
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$ 2,900.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Leaded Light, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 38cm x 32.5cm x 32.5cm
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Glimmer
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$ 4,900.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Glimmer, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 44.5cm x 43.5cm x 8.5cm
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Aureate Glow
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$ 3,900.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Aureate Glow, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 51cm x 24.5cm x 24.5cm
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Wave Tapestry
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$ 5,500.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Wave Tapestry, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 52.5cm x 43cm x 9.5cm
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Tiger She
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Bettina Willner, Tiger She, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 43.5cm x 34cm x 1cm
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Trachymedusa
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Bettina Willner, Trachymedusa, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 44cm x 44.5cm x 1cm
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Sea Lily
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$ 2,500.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Sea Lily, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 45cm x 44.5cm x 1cm
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Aphrodite
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Bettina Willner, Aphrodite, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 45cm x 42cm x 1cm
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Urchins
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Bettina Willner, Urchins, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 47.5cm x 22cm x 22cm
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Entangle
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Bettina Willner, Entangle, 2023, Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 46.5cm x 20cm x 20cm
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Abyssalis
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$ 2,100.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Abyssalis, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 52cm x 25cm x 25cm
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Neo-Serpentine
Brutalist Rock I
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$ 2,500.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Brutalist Rock I, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 46.5 x 25.5 x 23.5 cm
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Brutalist Rock II
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$ 1,300.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Brutalist Rock II, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 30 x 20 x 15 cm
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Golden Reflection
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$ 2,200.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Golden Reflection, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 24 x 15 x 15cm
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Sea Tangle
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Bettina Willner, Sea Tangle, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 23 x 14 x 14cm
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Glistened
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$ 2,600.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Glistened, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 43 x 16 x 16cm
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Butterfly
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$ 1,200.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Butterfly, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 31 x 10 x 10cm
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Rock
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Bettina Willner, Rock, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 29.5 x 10.5 x 10.5cm
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Bloom
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Bettina Willner, Bloom, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 33.5 x 10 x 10cm
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Twisted
Bettina Willner
$ 2,500.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Twisted, 2021, Glazed ceramic and glass, 48.5 x 11 x 11cm
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Tangled
Bettina Willner
$ 2,500.00 AUD
Bettina Willner, Tangled, 2021, Glazed ceramics and glass, 47 x 13.5 x 13.5 cm
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