DIANNA WELLS:

PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST WORKING IN MEAT MARKET

ABOUT DIANNA

Dianna Wells is an artist and graphic designer based in Naarm (Melbourne) utilising hand-printed analogue photography, lumen prints, and digital processes. Her practice investigates the transitions and tensions that arise from changes to the landscape. Working closely with plants and botanic specimens, her work communicates vulnerability and the potential for healing and regeneration.

Wells began her career as a printmaker after studying at the Canberra School of Art, before completing a Master of Fine Art (photo media) at Monash University in 2013. Her ongoing experimentation with the materiality of the photographic medium stems from her background in both printmaking and design.

In 2020 she was the recipient of the 4th Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award (Counihan Gallery, Moreland City Council) for her work ‘Looking Closer’. In 2017 her work was Highly Commended at the 10th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition in Barcelona. In collaboration with Sophie Cunningham, Wells was the recipient of a City of Melbourne Arts Grant in 2016, for their project ‘Boundaries’.

Wells has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has been a finalist in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Sydney (2022), Banyule Award for Works on Paper (2017 and 2015) and the Incinerator Art Award (2016 & 2014).

Her work has been collected by the City of Melbourne, National Gallery of Australia and the State Library of Victoria.

How do you use your space?

“I use my studio at Meat Market for researching and thinking about projects, looking at images, editing photographic images, looking at books, writing proposals and creating designs on my computer.”

Meat Market Licensee Dianna Wells
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