Over four decades, Lindy Lee has established herself as one of Australia’s most influential and respected contemporary artists with a practice that explores her Chinese heritage through the philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism - principles which emphasise humanity’s intimate and inextricable relationship to nature. Her work investigates the interdependence between spirit and matter, often employing elements of chance to produce works that embody this intimate connection with the cosmos. Over the last decade the artist’s practice has extended into the public realm, with the development of large-scale sculptural works that create sublime spaces of belonging and community.
Selected Works
Overview
mirror polished stainless steel
150 cm diameter
fire, stainless steel
150 cm diameter
fire, stainless steel
150 cm diameter
flung bronze
250 cm diameter
Red Gum, fire
40 × 80 cm
Chinese ink, fire and rain on paper
155 × 103 cm
Chinese ink, fire and rain on paper
155 × 103 cm
Eucalyptus wood, fire
70 × 98 × 19 cm
148 × 24 × 26 cm
42 × 84 × 42 cm
stainless steel
180 × 540 × 110 cm
mirror polished bronze
193 × 215 × 150 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
wax and acrylic on aluminium
64 × 504.9 cm (68 panels)
chinese ink, fire and giclée print
153.7 × 102.6 cm
chinese ink, fire and giclée print
153.7 × 102.6 cm
Chinese ink, fire & giclée print
153.7 × 102.6 cm
chinese ink, fire and giclée print
153.7 × 102.6 cm
paper, fire and Chinese ink
300 × 141 cm
300 × 141 cm
350 × 141 cm
mirror polished stainless steel, LED lighting
155 × 50 cm (diameter)
photocopy, pigment on paper
175 × 125 cm
photocopy and pigment on paper
15 parts: 42 × 29.5 cm each
Exhibitions
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About
Lindy Lee
Biography
Over four decades, Lindy Lee has established herself as one of Australia’s most influential and respected contemporary artists with a practice that explores her Chinese heritage through the philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism - principles which emphasise humanity’s intimate and inextricable relationship to nature. Her work investigates the interdependence between spirit and matter, often employing elements of chance to produce works that embody this intimate connection with the cosmos. Over the last decade the artist’s practice has extended into the public realm, with the development of large-scale sculptural works that create sublime spaces of belonging and community.
Lee has received widespread national and international recognition for her multi-disciplinary artistic practice, having exhibited in over 150 exhibitions in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA. In 2020-2021, the artist was the subject of a major survey exhibition, Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Receiving widespread popular and critical acclaim, the solo exhibition was one of the most visited shows in the Museum’s history.
The artist’s work has been widely collected in Australia and internationally and is represented in numerous major public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of South Australia; Adelaide; Queensland Art Gallery + Gallery of Modern Art; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Museum of Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie, NSW; Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW; Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, NSW; Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW; Geelong Gallery, VIC, University of Melbourne – Ian Potter Museum of Art; Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane; Artbank, Sydney; The Westfarmers Collection, Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection and private collections around the world.
Lee has created a series of important and much-loved public artworks, and large-scale sculptural commissions in Australia and internationally. Vault of Heaven, Seeds of Cosmos (2020), in Sydney, won the Property Council of Australia’s Innovation & Excellence Award for Best Public Art Project (2022) and The Garden of Cloud and Stone won the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Award for Civic Excellence. Other notable works include Eye of Infinity (2022), Hong Kong, Secret World of a Starlight Ember, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; Life of Stars, Art Gallery of South Australia; The Garden of Cloud and Stone, Chinatown, Sydney; and Life of Stars: Tenderness of Rain, Zheng Zhou Cultural Centre, China. Forthcoming major projects are soon to open in Canberra, Brisbane, and Virginia, USA.
Lindy Lee has also made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary art in Australia through ongoing leadership in the cultural sector as an academic, board member, cultural advocate, educator, founder, and mentor.
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