Lynda Draper is a contemporary Australian artist who primarily works in the ceramic medium. Her practice explores the intersection between dreams and reality, shaped by fragmented images from her surrounding environment, recollected memories, and interest in talismans from ancient cultures.
Selected Works
Overview
Drifting Moon, 2023
Installation view, Sullivan+Strumpf, Eora/Sydney. Photography by Simon Hewson.
glazed ceramic
59 × 53 × 55 cm
ceramic, various glazes
95 × 63 × 63 cm
ceramic, various glazes
130 × 62 × 45 cm
glazed ceramic
102 × 62 × 52 cm
ceramic, various glazes
140 × 50 × 51 cm
ceramic, various glazes
90 × 50 × 50 cm
glazed ceramic
55 × 54 × 34 cm
Exhibitions
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About
Lynda Draper
Biography
Lynda Draper is a contemporary Australian artist who primarily works in the ceramic medium. Her practice explores the intersection between dreams and reality, shaped by fragmented images from her surrounding environment, recollected memories, and interest in talismans from ancient cultures.
Created by a combination of pinching and coiling hand building techniques, Draper’s ceramic sculptures evoke dreamlike, ethereal qualities with the visual fragility of paper or wax, and yet are instilled with the resilience and permanence of fired clay. The skeletal structures evolve intuitively, each part gradually cultivating the connective tissue of the work. Often towering into the air, they hold an anthropomorphic presence; each sculpture is imbued with a life of their own. Ultimately, Draper is interested in the relationship between the mind and material world, and the related phenomenon of the metaphysical. Creating art is her way of bridging the gap between these worlds and inviting contemplation about other possible realms.
Draper exhibited as a part of The National 4: Australian Art Now with her exhibition Talismans for Unsettled Times (2023) at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Draper has received numerous national and international awards, including being the recipient of the 2019 Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. Other awards include the 16th International Gold Coast Ceramic Award, Queensland; Fisher’s Ghost Award, Sydney; and 54th Acquisition Award MIC, Faenza, Italy.
The artist’s works are held in significant national and international collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy; FA Grue Collection, Italy; Renwick Alliance Gallery, Smithsonian Institute Washington; Artbank, Australia; Collection of the Dutch Royal Family, Netherlands; IAC Collection FLICAM Museum, Fuping, China; Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Victoria; The Myer Foundation, Victoria; Campbelltown City Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; and the University of Wollongong, New South Wales.
Sullivan+Strumpf acknowledge the Indigenous People of this land, the traditional custodians on whose Country we work, live and learn. We pay respect to Elders, past and present, and recognise their continued connection to culture, land, waters and community.