2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award
June – 1 September 2019
The prestigious Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Lynda Draper for her work ‘Somnambulism’, 2019.
The SMFACA is one of the most prestigious awards in the visual arts in Australia, with a uniquely ceramic focus. It has evolved over its many year history. It began in 1991 as the Sidney Myer Fund Australia Day Ceramic Award, and evolved into the Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Art Award in 1997, with the aim of providing an unprecedented opportunity for a major international ceramic award and exhibition in Australia.
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami , USA Seattle Art Fair
SLEEPWALKING LEFEBVRE & FILS GALLERIE , Paris, France
Residency Versailles Studio Oct 2018- January 2019
Exhibition Jan 10 – Feb 9, 2019
SLEEPWALKING evolved from daily long walks and contemplations of the wintery parklands, gardens and decorative phenomena of the Chateau du Versailles. Unlike my home environment, this surreal, strangely familiar, haunting landscape has prompted me to consider my European heritage and question the complex character of early European cultural settlement within the Australian natural landscape. I have become aware of how on a subconscious level my world view and art practice has been informed by being raised on European rituals, history, myths and legends.
Tales of kings, queens, princes & princesses, dark forests and wintery Christmas’s so alien to the Australian environment. My work explores the intersection between dreams and reality. Many works evolve from a state of reverie shaped by fragmented images of my new environment : wintery forests, topiary, white marble, covered statues, faces on urns, ironwork, confectionary and ghosts from the past.
The exhibition combines aspects of my ongoing practice with new sources, restrictions and freedoms. I am interested in the relationship between the mind and material world and the related phenomenon of the metaphysical. Creating art is a way of attempting to bridge the gap between these worlds.
This exhibition was made possible by the generosity of Residency Program of Galerie Lefebvre, Versailles.
