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
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Listening to the Moon 2018

mirror polished stainless steel

150 cm diameter

Limitless World 2023

fire, stainless steel

150 cm diameter

Limitless World (detail) 2023

fire, stainless steel

150 cm diameter

fluctuations in the abyss 2022

flung bronze

250 cm diameter

The Birth of Fire 2022

Red Gum, fire

40 × 80 cm

unfettered 2020

Chinese ink, fire and rain on paper
155 × 103 cm

if water drips long enough.... 2021

Chinese ink, fire and rain on paper
155 × 103 cm

The Dragon that never sleeps (right), Dragon's Tower (left) & Dragon's Egg (background) 2021

Eucalyptus wood, fire

70 × 98 × 19 cm

148 × 24 × 26 cm

42 × 84 × 42 cm

Secret World of a Starlight Ember 2020

stainless steel

180 × 540 × 110 cm

Open as the sky (foreground) and Under the Shadowless Tree (background) 2020

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)

True Ch'ien : the exile awakens #8 2018

chinese ink, fire and giclée print

153.7 × 102.6 cm

True Chi'en : the heart fragmented #7  2018

chinese ink, fire and giclée print

153.7 × 102.6 cm

True Ch'ien : at the threshold #6 2018

Chinese ink, fire & giclée print

153.7 × 102.6 cm

True Ch'ien : unbetrothed #2 2018

chinese ink, fire and giclée print

153.7 × 102.6 cm

Fragrance of Fire, 1000 Affirmations & Dewdrops on fire 2018

paper, fire and Chinese ink

300 × 141 cm

300 × 141 cm

350 × 141 cm

The Third Immeasurable - Joy (open as the sky) 2017

mirror polished stainless steel, LED lighting

155 × 50 cm (diameter)

Ulterior Function 1993

photocopy, pigment on paper

175 × 125 cm

The Silence of Painters 1989

photocopy and pigment on paper

15 parts: 42 × 29.5 cm each

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Lindy Lee

Biography

Lives and works in Ballina, New South Wales
Born 1954, Brisbane

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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