Lindy Lee AO (b. 1954) is one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists. Lee draws on her Australian and Chinese heritage to investigate selfhood and explore the experiences of loss and transition from China to Australia in her innovative and unique works. Born in Brisbane, she completed a diploma at the Kelvin Grove School of Art Education before going to London to study at the Chelsea School of Art in 1979. Having gained further qualifications at the Sydney College of the Arts, she held her first solo exhibition in 1985 and since then has been exhibiting regularly. Her work, encompassing painting, multimedia and installation, has featured in significant group shows in Australia and overseas and is represented in major Australian public and corporate collections. Lee gained a doctorate in art theory from the University of New South Wales in 2001, and was a senior lecturer in painting at the Sydney College of the Arts for over twenty years. In 2021 she held a major survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop.
This photograph by Greg Weight shows Lee within her installation No up, no down, I am ten thousand things, presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1995, which examines dislocation and integration.
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
© Gregory Weight/Copyright Agency, 2024
Patrick Corrigan AM (130 portraits)
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Greg Weight on working with Jiawei Shen, and starting out as a photographer.
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