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

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

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

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

See also the catalogue for Review

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.

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.

Opened by Joan Brassil, 8 March 1995.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

touring exhibition