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Lucy McEachernArtist and Sculpture

Personal Information

Nationality: Australian
Age: 30
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

  • 2011: Santos Acquisitive Award 2011, Roma on Bungil Gallery Queensland
  • 2011: First prize in ‘Other Mediums’ at Birregurra Art Festival –'Plumed Whistling Duck'
  • 2010: 'Birds in Art 2010' Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum Touring Exhibition until 2012, Winsconsin USA- 'Guinea Fowl'
  • 2010: Woolongoon Garden Art Prize, Woolangoon Mortlake, Victoria- 'Guinea Fowl'
  • 2010: First prize in ‘Other Mediums’ at Birregurra Art Festival –'Wood Duck'
  • 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- ‘Red Tail Black Cockatoo’
  • 2008: ‘Viewers Choice Award’, Golden Plains Art Exhibition, Bannockburn –‘Barn Owl’
  • 2007: First prize in ‘Other Mediums’ at Birregurra Art Festival – ‘Barn Owl’
  • 2005: Exhibited in the Melbourne University College Art Exhibition, placed 2nd
  • 2002: Won a Scholarship to study in Prato, Italy for a Semester (Monash University) and received 2 High Distinctions for the work completed in Italy

Group Exhibitions

  • 2011: Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yering Station Yarra Glen, Vic
  • 2011: Birregurra Art Show, Birregurra Town Hall, Victoria
  • 2011: ‘Agendo 2011’ Emerging Artist prize, The Abbotsford Convent Abbotsford, Melbourne
  • 2011: ‘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 Victoria, Roma on Bugil Roma, Queensland and Purple Noon Gallery Freemans Reach, New South Wales 
  • 2011: Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 2011: 'Cut and Formed on the Plains' with Vida Pearson, Yering Station Yarra Glen,Victoria
  • 2010: Birregurra Art Show, Birregurra Town Hall, Victoria
  • 2010: Woolangoon Open Garden and Art Show, Woolangoon, Mortlake Victoria
  • 2010: Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glenn, Victoria- Silver Sea Gull and Dusky Moorhen
  • 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 VIC
  • 2010: ‘Season of Birds’ Purple Noon Gallery, Blue Mountains, NSW
  • 2010: Finalist in the ‘Toorak Village Sculpture Prize’ Melbourne- Guinea Fowl
  • 2009: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glenn, Victoria – ‘Red Tailed Black Cockatoo’
  • 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 Melbourne, ‘Guinea Fowl’
  • 2009: Golden Pains Art Exhibition, Bannockburn Victoria
  • 2009: ‘All about Birds’ Exhibition at Bird Observation & Conservation Australia, Nunawading, Victoria
  • 2009: Finalist in the ‘Toorak Sculpture Exhibition’, Toorak Village, Melbourne- ‘Barn Owl’
  • 2009: Art Melbourne- Metropolis Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
  • 2009: Herring Island Summer Arts Festival, Wildlife Art Society, Melbourne
  • 2008: Birregurra Art Festival, Birregurra
  • 2007: Selected and Exhibited in the top 40 of 500 Finalist in the Agendo Emerging Artists Competition, Cremorne Melbourne –‘Barn Owl’
  • 2003: Exhibited in a Mid-year show in Flinders Lane and at the Graduate Exhibition
  • 2002: Exhibited Collages at the Monash University Campus in Prato, Italy

Solo Exhibitions
  • 2008: Duffs Café, Colac Victoria

Publications

  • 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: Yarra Valley and Ranges Country Life, Issue 6 Autumn 2011 'Cut and Formed on the Plains' p 106
  • 2010: ‘Buyers flock to bronzed birds’ The Weekly Times, 12th May 2010 p83
  • 2010: 'Carving out an International Reputation' Geelong Advertizer, GT Magazine 7th August p2
  • 2010: 'The Living Garden' The Gardens, Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Spring 2010 p8
  • 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

  • Roma on Bungil Gallery, Roma Queensland Australia

Private Collections In

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

© Copyright 2010 Lucy McEachern Sculpture
Photographer Kevin Sturges AAIPP

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