Lynda Draper Ceramics

Saturday 26 november 2016 to sunday 12 february 2017 open during gallery hours.

Lynda draper ceramics. Winner 2019 sidney myer fund australian art award shepparton art museum sam victoria premier. Since studying at nas from 1985 1987 lynda draper has worked as a ceramicist for more than 30 years recognised as one of australia s finest and most revolutionary practitioners. Beneath their colourful surfaces the works channel the illawarra based artist s ongoing interest in the dualities of dreams. Lynda draper is widely acknowledged as one of australia s leading ceramicists her work explores psychological scenarios often representing a journey within the dualities of life and death reality and fantasy past and present.

She has been nas s head of ceramics for the past three years and last month won one of australia s major art awards the 2019 sidney myer fund australian. She is interested in the relationship between the mind and material world and the related phenomenon of the metaphysical. Somnambulism detail 2019 sidney myer fund australian ceramic award. Lynda draper ceramic artist.

Share this story choose your platform. Celebrating the vast potential of the ceramic medium the whimsical earthenware sculptures of lynda draper create a beguiling space where visuality mingles with tactility. By elli walsh june 23 2019. She has received numerous national and international awards and grants including a skills and development grant and two new work grants from the australian council for the arts.

Weird ceramic is a survey of the strange and peculiar in contemporary australian ceramics featuring twenty seven works by eleven artists. Glenn barkley stephen bird chris dolman lynda draper donna green emily hunt philjames jenny orchard stephen ralph sarah smuts kennedy and vipoo srivilasa.