I am Gemma Wilson a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator from Rotterdam.
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EDUCATION
since 2020 Meisterschülerin (post graduate studies) at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig with Prof. Oliver Kossack
2019/2020 Research student Printmaking at Geidai Tokyo university of the Arts
2018 Diplom Graphic design/Bookart Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB)
EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS
06/2021 »48 stunden Neukölln«
Groupexhibition with the studio Tampopo crew. Wolf Kino Berlin.
09/2020 »LUSTR - illustration festival 2020« groupexhibition with Babagoi. Prague, Czech Republic
09/2020 »Walls have ears paper sliding doors have eyes« solo exhibition at artist residency Roku House in Choshi, Chiba, Japan
2020 »2nd TKO International Miniprint«
TOKYO 03~09.08 Tokyo Metropolitan Theater KYOTO 22~30.08 Art Zone Kaguraoka
OSAKA 04~16.09 Gallery Irohani
12/2019 »Daigaku-hanga exhibition«
The 44th Annual Exhibition of the Japan Soceity of Printmaking , Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
04/2019 »Water Event«, water sculpture in collaboration with Yoko Ono, MdbK Leipzig, Germany
11/2018 Graphic Recording at the event »What can Europe learn from Chemnitz«
10/2018 Exhibition and live-drawing with Babagoi at the Krudebude
11/2017 » Impacto 08 « groupexhibition at the Community center Hyakkado, Kuayoshi, Tottori, Japan
09/2017 Local activity project & exhibition» Freehand revolution« Tanaka house, Tottori, Japan
03/2017 Exhibition »Ereichnis Druckgraphik 09«, Tapetenwerk Leipzig, Germany
11/2016 »Xilografia senza confini 2«,Galleria Porta Latina Rome
10/2015 »Illust_ratio #4«, groupexhibition at Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany
PRIZES/SCHOLARSHIPS
03/2020 Prizewinner of Michael w.Schneider Prize at the 2nd TKO International Miniprint 2020
10/2019 Graduiertenstipendium des DAAD
03/2019 Prizewinner of die Förderkojen des Grafiknetzwerk at the Leipzig Book Fair
10/2018 Merit at the GOSEE-awards
07/2016 DAAD-prize for the outstanding achievement of a foreign student at a german institution
PUBLICATIONS
»Tippgemeinschaft 2017« Connewitzer verlagsbuchhandlung. Anthology of the students of the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig
»Perigaum« in the collection of the german literaturarchive in Marbach and the museum of applied arts in Frankfurt am Main
»Syrinx Magazin« issue 1-6
TEACHING
Summersemester/2021 Instructor Illustration at the Abendakademie of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
09/2020 Workshop instructor japanese woodcut at artist residency Roku house in Choshi, Japan 07/2020 Workshop instructor risoprint and bookdesign at HandSawPress Tokyo
05/2019 Instructor silkprint at Evangelisches Gymnasium, Lernwelten
2018-2019 Instructor linocut and bookdesign at Freundeskreis Buchkinder Leipzig e.V.
10/2018 Workshop instructor japanese woodcut at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
