Lindy Lee b. 1954

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Lindy Lee is an Australian artist of Chinese heritage. Her art began with a critique of the reproductions of European art that give Australians a decidedly second hand understanding of their place in the world. This has evolved via a fresh appreciation of her Chinese heritage to a Buddhist understanding of the place of art and humanity in the universe.
Tags: hot metal, photocopies, carbon, light, Taoism, Zen Buddhism
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exhibited at
Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop
Description

A comprehensive survey of Lindy Lee’s oeuvre from her early photocopied works to specially commissioned installations and sculpture

Tags
survey exhibition, Chinese-Australian, Buddhism, Taoism
Website
https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/exhibitions/lindy-lee-moon-in-a-dew-drop/
exhibited at
Birth & Death: Lindy Lee
Date
2003
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

The exhibition consists of approximately sixty Chinese accordion books arranged in rows across the Artspace floor. Each book is based on a photographic portrait of individual members of Lee’s family. Funded by the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts. Supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Artspace exhibition archive: http://www.artspace.org.au/index.html
http://www.artspace.org.au/2003/06/Lindy_Lee.html

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation, Video/Film
exhibited at
Three views of emptiness: Buddhism and the art of Tim Johnson, Lindy Lee and Peter Tyndall
Date
2001
Place
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Michael, Linda and Hulse, Adele, Three views of emptiness: Buddhism and the art of Tim Johnson, Lindy Lee and Peter Tyndall. Clayton, Vic : Monahs University museum of Art, c2001
ISBN 073262181X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Installation, Painting
exhibited at
Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales: Hang No. 2
Date
24 April 1995 - 4 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

See also the catalogue for Review

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
A l'hombre des jeunes filles et des fleurs: In the shadow of young girls and flowers
Date
10 March 1995 - 28 May 1995
Place
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla , Vic.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
The Best Face Value for Autumn: Work from the collection
Date
3 March 1995 - 7 May 1995
Place
Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Opened by Joan Brassil, 8 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women hold up half the sky
Date
March 1995 - April 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Opened by the Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence. Heritage book launched at the same time. The touring exhibition, Sydney by Design, formed one section of this exhibition.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Lindy Lee: no up, no down, I am the 10,000 things!
Date
1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

A recent installation about presence, authenticity, the original, the copy, loss, the self. Accompanied by a leaflet.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
No up, no down, I am the 10,000 things! / Lindy Lee. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995
1 folded sheet 95p) : ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Lindy Lee and David Noonan: level 2 projects
Date
1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Lindy Lee and David Noonan: level 2 projects. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995
1 folded sheet (3 p) : ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Video/Film, Painting
exhibited at
Zip zilch zero
Date
1994
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

This installation utilised tachite ink stains, a repeated Chinese ideogram meaning dream/impermanence, and the artist’s dark painted and photocopied canvases incorporating details from 'old masters’ in a work that amplified some of the concerns constant in the artists practice, in particular, the use of the grid. The grid is both closed (framed) and open, the parallel lines stretching towards infinity.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAf annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Imagination and metonymy: Lindy Lee, John Nixon
Date
1994
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Imagination and metonymy / Lindy Lee, John Nixon. Sydney: Artspace, 1994
ISBN 0731036980

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Installation
exhibited at
Virtue, moral order & the discretion of human gesture, 1991
Date
1991
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Heavy layers of black (on canvas or carbon deposit from repeated photocopy scans on paper) vague reds and blues give way to sublime abstraction.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Painting, Printmaking
exhibited at
A new generation 1983-1988: The Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchases
Date
4 June 1988 - 17 July 1988
Place
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Chaos
Date
4 February 1987 - 21 February 1987
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, NSW
Description

touring exhibition

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Feminism, Contemporary Art and Feminism
exhibited at
Lindy Lee and Janet Burchill: rites of delay
Date
1984
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Rites of delay / Lindy Lee, Janet Burchill. Sydney: Lindy Lee, Janet Burchill and Mark Titmarsh, 1984
ISBN 0959084401

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Painting, Mixed media

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