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Lucy McEachernArtist and Sculpture

Personal Information

Nationality: Australian
Age: 31
Place of Birth: Victoria, Australia

Education

2005- Diploma of Education, Melbourne University Parkville

Art Practice, Art Responding, Learning and Teaching, Language and Education, Computers in the Classroom, Curriculum and Assessment, Education Policy, Schools and Society

2001-2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts Ceramics and Sculpture, Monash University, Caulfield

Ceramics, Sculpture, Materials and Technology, Glass, Drawing, Aesthetics, and Art History

1991-1999 Geelong Grammar School

Major Subjects: Ceramics, Graphics, Information Technology, Geography, English

ARTISTIC PROFILE

Awards

2012: ‘Peoples Choice Award’ Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glen Vic

2012: First Prize in the ‘Other Mediums’ section at Birregurra Art Festival

2011:Yering Station Sculpture Prize Wine Makers Choice Award, Yarra Glen Victoria

2011: Santos Acquisitive Sculpture Award 2011, Roma on Bungil, Queensland

2011: First Prize in the ‘Other Mediums’ section at Birregurra Art Festival

2010: First Prize in the ‘Other Mediums’ section at Birregurra Art Festival

2010: Woolangoon Art Prize, Mortlake Victoria

2009: Presidents Award at the ‘All about Birds Exhibition’ Nunawading

2009: Peoples Choice Award at the ‘All about Birds Exhibition’ Nunawading

2008: Celia Dymond Design Prize, at the Contemporary Sculpture Association Exhibition, Yarra Street Gallery Abbotsford, Melbourne

2002: Travelling Scholarship to study in Prato, Italy for a Semester (Monash University) and received 2 High Distinctions for the work completed in Italy

Group Exhibitions

2013: Toorak Sculpture Prize, Toorak Village, Victoria

2012: A Question of Scale, Geelong Regional Gallery, Geelong Victoria

2012: Birregurra Art Festival, Birregurra Victoria

2012: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum ‘Birds in Art 2011’ Wausau Wisconsin, United States of America

2012: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yering Station Yarra Glen, Vic

2012: Mistletoe Sculpture Prize, Mistletoe Vineyard Hunter Valley NSW

2012: ‘Wild Things’ Castlemaine Market Building, Castlemaine, Vic

2012: ‘Cut and Formed on the Plains’, Local Images Gallery, Penola, SA

2012: ‘Backyard Bliss’ Framed The Darwin Gallery, Darwin, NT Australia

2012: Finalist in the Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Victoria

2011: “Jewels of the Wild”, Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park Victoria

2011: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yering Station Yarra Glen, Vic

2011: Finalist in the ‘Agendo 2011’ Emerging Artist prize, The Abbotsford Convent Abbotsford, Melbourne.

2011: Finalist in ‘The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize’, South Australian Museum, Adelaide.

2011: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum ‘Birds in Art 2011’ Wausau Wisconsin, United States of America

2011: Finalist in the Lorne Sculpture Prize, Lorne Victoria

2011: ‘ Cut and Formed on the Plains’ with Vida Pearson, Yering Station, Yarra Glen Vic, Roma on Bugil Roma, QLD and Purple Noon Gallery Freemans Reach, NSW

2011: Finalist in the Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Victoria

2010: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glenn, Victoria

2010: Arnold Bloch Leibler Sculpture Exhibition, 333 Collins St Melbourne, Victoria

2010: ‘Artisans in the Gardens’ Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney NSW

2010: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum ‘Birds in Art 2010’ Wausau Wisconsin, United States of America

2010: ‘Wildlife- Our Artistic Inspiration’ Gippsland Art Gallery Sale Victoria

2010: ‘Season of Birds’ Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach, NSW

2010: Finalist in the ‘Toorak Village Sculpture Prize’ Melbourne- Guinea Fowl

2009: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glen, Victoria

2009: ‘All about Wildlife’ exhibition at Monsalvat, Eltham Victoria

2009: Birregurra Art Festival, Birregurra Victoria

2009: Finalist in the Arnold Bloch Leibler Sculpture Exhibition, Collins St Melb

2009: Golden Plains Art Exhibition, Bannockburn Victoria

2009: ‘All about Birds’ Exhibition at Bird Observation & Conservation Australia, Nunawading, Victoria

2009: Finalist in the ‘Toorak Sculpture Prize’, Toorak Village, Melbourne- ‘Barn Owl’

2009: Art Melbourne- Metropolis Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2009: Herring Island Summer Arts Festival, Wildlife Art Society, Melbourne

2007: Selected and Exhibited in the top 40 of 500 Finalist in the Agendo Emerging Artists Competition, Cremorne Melbourne –‘Barn Owl’

2002: Exhibited Collages at the Monash University Campus in Prato, Italy

Publications

2012: ‘Artist Profile- Lucy McEachern’ Wildlife Art Society of Australasia, Vol 36 No1 Feb 2012 p8

2011: ‘Birds in Art 2010’ Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 90

2011: ‘Lucy McEachern at Birds in Art 2011 USA’ Not Just Plain Arts, Golden Plains Shire, Oct 2011 p3

2011: ‘Purple Noon puts on a show’ Hawkesbury Courier, Thurs 9th of June 2011 p4

2011: ‘Profiles’ Art Almanac, The Australian Gallery Guide, June 2011 p182

2011: ‘Artists hit finest form’ Roma Lifestyle, The Western Star, May 3 2011 p19

2011: ‘Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition- a decade of Sculpture’ Antiques and Art in Victoria, April- August 2011 p24

2011: ‘Sculptor Profile’ Lorne Sculpture 2011, Newsletter 2, May 2011 p1

2011: ‘Out of the Black’ Yarra Valley and Ranges Magazine, Issue 6 Autumn ‘11 p106

2010: ‘Truly Wild Awards’ Australian Artist N0. 314, Aug 2010 P no. 6

2010: ‘Birds in Art 2010’ Wildlife Art Society of Australasian Inc, Vol 34 No.4 November 2010, page 6

2010: ‘Birds in Art 2010’ Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 82

2010: 'Carving out an International Reputation' Geelong Advertiser, GT Magazine 7th August p20

2010: ‘Buyers flock to bronzed birds’ The Weekly Times, 12th May 2010 p83

2010: Not Just Plain Arts 2010, Golden Plains Shire Newsletter, January 2010 p4

2010: Art and Antiques in Victoria, December 09- April 2010, page 70

2009: Light Blue, Issue No. 77 April 2009, page 27

2009: Art and Antiques in Victoria, December 08- April 09, page 60

Collections

Lady Mara Praznovszky

Isabell Hurburgh

Mt Trevor Steele

Portland and District Hospital, Portland Victoria

Roma on Bungil Regional Gallery, Roma Queensland

Yering Station Vineyard, Yarra Glen Victoria

Geelong Gallery, Victoria

Private Collections In

Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland, ACT, Tasmania, South Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore and Egypt.