Lynda Draper is recognised as a leading figure in contemporary Australian ceramics. Over more than four decades, she has continually expanded the possibilities of her practice, exploring new ways to shape and transform materials. 

Draper has developed a visual language where material, memory, and imagination converge. Her sculptures emerge through an intuitive process, creating forms that feel both grounded and ethereal. Though made from enduring materials, her works often evoke the delicate, fleeting qualities of paper maché, bubble gum, pearl, or wax, while retaining the weight and presence of fired clay, bronze, and glass. Draper’s sculptures invite contemplation, offering spaces where forms shift and the boundaries between past and present, object and spirit, seem to dissolve.

For more than 40 years, Lynda Draper has worked as an artist, teacher and mentor, including serving as Head of Ceramics at Sydney’s National Art School from 2016 to 2023. In 2025, Campbelltown Arts Centre presented Lynda Draper: Glimmer, a major survey exhibition bringing together key works from across her career.  Her career includes residencies and solo exhibitions with Lefebvre & Fils Galerie in Paris, and major presentations in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now at the National Gallery of Australia and The National 4: Australian Art Now at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Draper was also recognised in Phaidon’s influential 2017 publication Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art.

Draper received the prestigious Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award in 2019 and has won numerous national and international awards, including the 54th Acquisition Award at the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy. Her work is held in significant collections worldwide, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Smithsonian’s Renwick Alliance, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Dutch Royal Family Collection and FLICAM Museum in China.

Lynda is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney/Melbourne/Singapore https://www.sullivanstrumpf.com and Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France http://lefebvreetfils.fr/artistes