Drawing from the philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism, Australian artist Lindy Lee examines the complex ideas surrounding the self and its relationship with nature and the cosmos. Employing the ideas of chance and spontaneity, she creates a galaxy of imagery that emanates philosophical meditations on nature and life.
Read MoreMoon in a Dew Drop (2 October 2020–28 February 2021), a major retrospective exhibition of Lindy Lee's work, was organised by Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). In her conversation with Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, published in Ocula Magazine in partnership with MCA Australia, the artist discussed the influence of Buddhist philosophies on her practice, which considers the self as 'the accumulation of all of history; of everything in this individual moment.'
Lindy Lee studied at the Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, and Sydney College of the Arts in the 1980s. She is a former chairperson and board member of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, an independent nonprofit art organisation in Sydney committed to encouraging conversation between artists throughout Australia and Asia while supporting Asian-Australian art.
The Seamless Tomb, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2017); The Tyranny and Liberation of Distance, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2015); Lindy Lee: The Dark of Absolute Freedom, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (2014); Fire Stones, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2014).
Divided Worlds: Adelaide Biennal of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia (2018); Chaos & Order, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2018); Art Stage Singapore (2017); Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2012); Return to Sender, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane (2012); Element, BIAC, Beijing (2005); Sight Seeing, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Downtown Gallery, Beijing (2004); Photography is Dead, Long Live Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art (1996); Prospect 93, Frankfurt (1993).
