EDUCATION
2010 Master of Fine Arts by Research, College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales (UNSW)
1991 Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts – Sculpture, COFA UNSW
1984-86 National Art School, Sydney
1980-83 Bachelor of Education (Art) City Art Institute, UNSW
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Drifting Moon, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2021 Flowers of the Night, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2019 Somnambulism, Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum,Victoria
2019 Sleepwalking, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris
2017 The Other, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2014 Summon, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2013 Revisit, Firstdraft, Sydney
2010 Home Altered, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2010 Home Altar, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2008 Kangaroo, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2006 Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2005 Galerie Marianne Brand, Geneva
2003 Ceramic Art, Sydney
2002 Haecceity Arts, Melbourne
2001 Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney
1996 Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney
1993 Black Gallery, Sydney
1988 Breewood Gallery, Katoomba
1987 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 50 Artists: 50 years Art Exhibition , University of Wollongong .
2025 All Creatures, Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne
2025 Free Form: Contemporary Abstraction, Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne
2025 ART SG, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore
2024 Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney
2023 Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney
2023 In the Arms of Unconsciousness: Women, Feminism & the Surreal, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, NSW
2023 The National 4: Australian Art Now, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2023 Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, NSW
2022-23 Thinking Through Pink, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
2022 Captivate: 100 Years of the National Art School, NAS Gallery, Sydney
2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery, Sydney
2021 Clay Dynasty, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
2021 The Future is Humanity, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2020-21 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2020 2 Love in the Time of COVID, GAG Projects ,The Art Gallery of South Australia
2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2019 National Treasures: Contemporary Ceramics from Australia and New Zealand, The Vivian Gallery, Matakana
2018-19 Meditation on a Bone: Albert Tucker beyond the Modern, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
2018 Ceramics (Now): An Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2018 Bad Mannerism, Galerie pompom, Sydney
2017 Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2016 Weird Ceramics, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Victoria
2016 Borne, Stanley St Gallery, Sydney
2016 Collective Material, Craft Melbourne
2016 Gold Coast International Ceramics Award
2016 Overundersidewaysdown, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2016 To Have and to Hold, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2015 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks represented by Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2015 TURN TURN TURN: The Studio Ceramics Tradition, National Art School, Sydney
2015 Biggie Smalls, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2015 Friends with Benefits: Sharing is Caring, Gallery 2037, Sydney
2015 Gesture and the Hand: drawing from the Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramic Collection, Blue Urchin Gallery, Victoria
2014 Loose Canon, Artbank, Sydney
2014 Glazed & Confused: Ceramics in Contemporary Art Practice, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
2014 Slow Burn, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2014 Compassionate Voices, Koskela Gallery, Sydney
2014 Danger Will Robinson, Airspace Projects, Sydney
2014 Monuments to the Frontier Wars, Damien Minton, Sydney
2014 The Course of Objects, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2014 Terra firma: The Inquisitive Collector, Chapter House, Melbourne
2014 The Democracy of Drawing, Airspace Projects, Sydney
2014 Collectors Space, Art Month, the collection of Lisa Havilah & Glenn Barkley
2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2013 Home & Hosed, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
2013 The 62nd Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2013 Museum of Contemporary Art ARTBAR, Sydney
2013 The Fishers Ghost Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2013 Zoologica, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2012 Man and Beast, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2012 Crosspollination, Cofa Space, Sydney
2012 Anim(us), Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2012 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2011 SOFA, Chicago, USA, represented by John Natsoulas Gallery
2011 CAA, San Francisco, USA, represented by John Natsoulas Gallery
2011 The Narrative Knot, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2011 IN CLAY, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
2011 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2010 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2009 Ivy Troupes, Group exhibition Curated by Melissa Loughnan, acga Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne
2009 White Heat: Social, Political, Cultural issues, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2008 Salute, Fusions Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Museum Stella Downer Fine Art, ceramics exhibition in conjunction with Ceramics Triennale 09
2008 Wollongong City Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition
2007-09 Bloodlines: Art and the Horse, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2007 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2007 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Gallery
2006 Clay Statements, Verge – 11th National Ceramics Conference, QLD
2006 Sass & Bide Art Prize, College of Fine Art, Sydney
2005 International Ceramic Award, Carouge Museum, Geneva
2005 54th Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica D’art, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
2005 Europ’art, Galerie Marianne Brand, Geneva
2004 The Hollow and the Whole – Contemporary Ceramics, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2004 Vessel: Diverse, Quadrivium, Sydney
2003 Surface, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2003 White Out, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Ceramics – The Australian & New Zealand Context, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2003 Hypercrafting, Monash University, Melbourne
2002 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award, Melbourne
2002 19th International Gold Coast Award, Queensland
2001 Serenely Vital, Haecceity Arts, Melbourne
2000 Ceramics – The Australian Context, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
1999 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1998 4th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics, National Art Centre of Fine Arts, Egypt
1997 54th Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica D ‘art, Faenza Museum, Italy
1997 Australian Ceramics at SOFA, Chicago, USA
1997 Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Award, Auckland Museum, NZ
1997 16th International Gold Coast Ceramic Award, Gold Coast City Gallery
1997 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
1995 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, Auckland Museum
1990 3rd Commonwealth Bank National Ceramic Award, Canberra
1986 National Ceramic Symposium Exhibition, Canberra
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 On Display: The story of Artbank , 2025
2025 Collecting: Living with Art , Kym Elphinstone , pg 142, Thames& Hudson, 2025
2023 The National 4: Australian Art Now,
https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/lynda-draper/talismans-for-unsettled-times/
2023 Jaime Tsai. "Lynda Draper: Drifting Moon." Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine, July/August
https://issuu.com/sullivanstrumpf/docs/julaug2023
2023 Chloe Borich. "Roadside Monuments." Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine, April/May/Jun
https://issuu.com/sullivanstrumpf/docs/julaug2023
2022 Lee Tulloch. “The Female Ceramists Turning Craft into Art.” T Magazine Australia, 17 November, 2022.
2021 Lynda Draper. “At Home: Lynda Draper.” Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine, May/June, 2021.
https://issuu.com/sullivanstrumpf/docs/mayjun_2021/s/12209403
2020 Sonia Legge. “Home and also somewhere else very far away: Lynda Draper.” Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine,December/January, 2020.
https://issuu.com/sullivanstrumpf/docs/summer_2020/s/11305982
2020 Rebecca Edwards. “Lynda Draper.” In Know My Name. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2020.
2020 “LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19.” Suite GAGPROJECTS/Greenway Gallery Collection Australian Museum in Canberra, Art Gallery of South Australia.
http://solidarity.gagprojects. com/index.php/littoc19-e2020/
2019 Andrew Stephens. “Of Time, Loss and Change.” Art Monthly Australasia, September, Issue 318, p 18, 2019.
2019 Andrew Frost. “Lynda Draper: Sydney Myer Fund Ceramic award.” Art Collector, Issue 91, Jan/March, 2020.
2019 “On the couch with Lynda Draper.” Arts Review, August 12, 2019.
2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, SAM Shepparton Art Museum Catalogue.
2019 TS Flock. “The Best Booths At Seattle Art Fair.” Vanguard Seattle, 3 August, 2019. http://vanguardseattle.com/2019/08/03/the-best-of-the-booths-at-seattle-art-fair-2019/
2018 Elli Walsh. “Lynda Draper.” Artist Profile, Issue 44, 2018. www.artistprofile.com.au/lynda-draper/.
2017 “Vitamin C: New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Clay and Ceramics.” Phaidon Press.
2016 Amber Creswell Bell. “Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artisans.” Thames & Hudson.
2016 Hohe Luft Magazine, November, 2016.
2016 Toni Warburton. “In Every Direction”. Art Monthly, August Issue 291, 2016.
2016 Peter Hill. “New Directions”. Art Collector, Issue 75, p 142, Jan/March, 2016.
2015 Madeleine Preston. “Thinking Through Colour”. Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 54, No. 3 (November 2015)
http://australianceramics.realviewdigital.com/?startpage=1&iid=132606
2015 Tom Polo. “Important Objects: a conversation with Lynda Draper.” Stam, August, 2015.
2015 Greg Swinger. Interview: Final Friday, podcast, USA.
2014 Miriam Kelly. “Changed Material.” Sturgeon, Issue 3, 2014.
2014 Glenn Barkley. “If I could have...”. Art Collector, Issue 71, January/March, 2014.
2014 “Glazed & Confused: Ceramics in contemporary Art practice.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAX-BgQu8o
2014 Lynda Draper. “Glazed and Confused.” The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 53, No. 3 (November 2014).
2014 “News.” Manuscript, Issue X, 2014.
2014 Inga Walton. “Ceramic Review: A Maker Greatly Missed. Janet Mansfield’s legacy.” Issue 269, September/October, 2014.
2014 Vogue Australia, Issue 09, September, 2014.
2014 “The Course of Objects: The Fine Lines of Inquiry.” The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 53, No1.
2014 Dan Rule. “Your Weekend: in the Galleries.” The Age, March 22, 2014.
2014 Lynda Draper. “SUMMON.” Gallerysmith, Melbourne.
2013 “Home and Hosed.” Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney.
2012 Dr Julie Bartholomew. “Beautiful Intent: Lynda Draper and Jacqui Hudson.”
2012 Gerry Wedd. “The Narrative Knot: Stories in Ceramics.” Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
2011 “Ceramic Sculptures.” 1st ed. Lark Studio Series, USA
2011 “Contemporary Ceramics at Hazelhurst.” The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 50/2 (July 2011): 53–54.
2011 Karen Weiss. “IN CLAY.” Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Catalogue.
2010 Kirsten Paisley. “Home Altared.” Shepparton Regional Gallery, Catalogue, August/September, 2010.
2010 Incubate, Issue 5, COFA UNSW.
2009 “Conference Paper Past in the Present: Australian Ceramics Triennale 09.” Craft Australia, Issue 44, August, 2009.
2009 “Seven 21st Century Ceramists.” Object 59, October, 2009.
2009 Julie Batholomew. “White heat: Social, Political, Cultural Issues.” Catalogue essay.
2009 “Fluidity, Shift and Bloom: Understandings of an Oceanic Sublime in an Age of Ecological Collapse.” The International Journal of the Arts in Society, (2009): 95–108.
2009 Suzanne Tourtillott. “500 Ceramic Sculptures: contemporary practice.” Lark Books, New York/London.
2008 Roderick Bamford. “Wonderland & the Irony of Memory.” Ceramics Art & Perception, Issue 73, 2008.
2007 Prue Venerables. “Celebration.” Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Catalogue essay.
2006 54th Premio Faenza, Lynda Draper, Ceramics Art & Perception, No.62, 2006.
2006 Patsy Hely Crust. “Clay Statements.” Exhibition Catalogue, 2006.
2005 The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 44, No.2, 2005.
2005 Art Monthly Australia, June, No.180, 2005.
2004 Sarah Bond. “Whiteout.” The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Issue 43, No.2, 2004.
2004 Sue Buckle. “The Hollow and the Whole.” Journal of Australian Ceramics, Issue 43, No.1, 2004.
2003 Dr R Nelson. “Hyperlaughing.” Ceramic Art & Perception, No.53, 2003.
2003 Dr R Nelson/Dr C Headley. “Hypercrafting.” Exhibition catalogue.
2001 The Age, July 14, Visual Art, Serenely Vital, Haecceity Art, review by Peter Timms
2001 Courtney Kidd. “Exhibitions – Critics Pick.” Sydney Morning Herald, March 30, 2001.
2001 Courtney Kidd. “Irregular Desires.”Sydney Morning Herald, March 28, 2001
AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2025 Award for Distinguished Service, National Art School, Sydney
2024 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2024 Artist in Residence, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra
2022 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2019 Winner, Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2017 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2016 Finalist, International Gold Coast Ceramic Award
2016 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2015 Nominated, Museums & Galleries of NSW Imagine Award
2015 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Award
2014 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
2013 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant for established artists
2013 Finalist, Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2013 Finalist, Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2013 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2012 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2013 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2010 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2008 Planex Scholarship College of Fine Arts, UNSW
2007 Merit Award, Cowra Art Prize, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW
2007 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2006 Winner, Sass & Bide—COFA Art Award
2006 Special Acquisition, Sidney Myer International Ceramic Award
2005 Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Development Grant
2005 Acquisition Award, 54th Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica D’art, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
2005 18th International Gold Coast Ceramic Acquisitive Award
2001 Finalist, Port Hacking National Pottery Award, Sydney
2000 Winner, Port Hacking National Pottery Award, Sydney
1999 Finalist, Port Hacking National Pottery Award, Sydney
1998 Finalist, Port Hacking National Pottery Award, Sydney
1998 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant
1997 Winner, 16th International Gold Coast Award
1997 Winner, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Ceramics), Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
1997 Finalist, Port Hacking National Pottery Award
1987 Finalist, Port Hacking National Pottery Award
1986 Residency Canberra School of Art with the National Symposium of Young Ceramic Artists
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014 Glazed & Confused: Ceramics in Contemporary Art Practice, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
2011 In Clay, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery NSW
Artbank, Sydney
Bluestone Collection, University of Wollongong Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Collection of the Dutch Royal Family
FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum, Shaanxi Province, China F’A’Grue Collection Castelli, Teramo, Italy
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy Margaret Lawrence Collection
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Myer Foundation
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Renwick Alliance Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
The City of Darebin Art Collection, Victoria The Gregg Collection
Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales