Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Contemporary Australian and Aboriginal paintings, sculpture, original prints and drawings

'The imaginary museum ... is not eternal. Should a new absolute emerge,
a large part of this treasured heritage would doubtless fade into oblivion...'
André Malraux, La Tête d’obsidienne

For Musee Imaginaire Willcocks combines a range of printmaking, installation and photographic processes to explore notions of museology and the conceptual spaces such environments evoke in the viewer. Employing a range of display devices such as vitrines, domes and antique frames to house contemporary worksWillcocks highlights the passage of museological traditions and our relationships to preservation. The artist states, 'Over the past years my work has focused on the demise of the natural world and its renewal, often as objects or artifacts within an institutional setting. My prints explore the rituals of collecting and how this act plays a key role in the preservation of our memories.'

Willcocks’ work is represented in a range of public collections including Artbank; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; Grafton Regional Art Gallery; Lismore Regional Art Gallery; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and the Print Council of Australia. She has been the winner of the The Fremantle Print Award (2007) and The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2000) as well as being a finalist in The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize (2008) and The Conrad Jupiters Art Prize (2006).



Utopian Forest inkjet print on rag paper -unique 77 x 170cm		installation images


Forest of Secrets and Lies (triptych) inkjet print on rag paper with found object -unique 57cm x 99cm		installation images

The Propoganda Tree
inkjet print on rag paper- unique
57cm x 43cm

installation images The Fall
found book, graphite, hand coloured
monoprints on rag paper
45 x 20cm


Vitrine 21 (book, tree stump, black coral with feather on felt ) glass, steel, found objects, etching on felt 130 x 40 x 40 cm	View from above	installation images


Encounter with Beuys (book, red branch with tool on felt) glass, steel, found objects, etching on felt 130 x 60 x 40 cm		View from above


Vitrine 23 (red book, soft coral with axe on felt) glass, steel, found objects, etching on felt 130 x 40 x 40cm		View from above


The Fallen and Found I hand coloured etching, perspex and wood 1/3 25 x 25cm	The Fallen and Found II hand coloured etching, perspex and wood 1/3 25 x 25cm	The Fallen and Found III hand coloured etching, perspex and wood 1/3 25 x 25cm	The Fallen and Found IV hand coloured etching, perspex and wood 1/3 25 x 25cm	The Fallen and Found V hand coloured etching, perspex and wood 1/3 25 x 25cm


Installation view The Fallen and Found I -V


Congruere I incised cardboard with ink stain -unique 65cm x 80cm	Congruere II incised cardboard with ink stain - unique 65 x 80cm	installation images


Entropy etching from aluminium 93cm x 62cm (ed. 6)	Atrophy etching from aluminium 93cm x 62cm (ed. 6)	installation images	Collection of the artist # 1, leaf on silk velvet 20cm x 15cm	Collection of the artist # 2, leaf on silk velvet 20cm x 15cm