Lindy Lee’s work comes in the form of Chinese scroll-like banners, accordion books and multiple-panel paintings that explore the formation of identity and the effects of diaspora.
Lindy Lee / Artistic overview
A first generation Chinese Australian, Lindy Lee’s work investigates issues of selfhood and identity. Her work embodies a dramatic visual language of bold colours and gestures often combined with photographic images from various sources. These photographs include portraits of Lee’s wider family, her travels to China, and Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy. Informed by her study and practice of Zen buddhism, Lee’s work links east and west, joining body and spirit and connecting past with present.
Information / http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au
Lee has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally. Exhibitions include the 1986 Sydney Biennale, Prospect ‘93 (Germany), Lindy Lee: Birth & Death at Artspace, Sydney in 2003 and Birth and Death at Campbelltown Art Centre in 2007. Lee held her first solo show, Cycles through a Chinese Landscape, in Malaysia in 2006. Lee is a founding member of Gallery 4A in Sydney’s Chinatown. Her work is held in major public collections, including the National Gallery of Australian and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
