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LUCY RAY IS AN ARTIST LIVING & WORKING BETWEEN AUSTRALIA & ABU DHABI.

Lucy Ray is a Melbourne artist raised in Yeppoon, on the traditional land of the Darumbal People of Central Queensland, living between Australia and Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is represented in Australia by Flinders Lane Gallery. 

 

My work centers around reconstructed compositions of real and digital memories from the places I've lived in and traveled to, creating images that prompt a strange nostalgia. Together, the works build a world that conveys a sense of familiarity, unease, and tension, hinting at the events that may or may not have happened.

 

Whether evoking a sense of sentimentality, foreboding, or transformation, they invite viewers to reflect on their experiences and connect with the inner landscapes we all navigate. 

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Moving part-time to Abu Dhabi in 2019, she has actively pursued the art community in Australia and internationally, exhibiting and hosting a workshop with Black and White Diary's traveling gallery in Dubai and Melbourne through invitational group shows and collectives.

 

In 2022 she had her second solo show in Melbourne, Australia. Attended the SIM art residency, Korpúlfsstaðir, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Is a finalist in several art prizes and was awarded the works on paper prize for Brunswick Street Gallery's Fifty Squared Art Prize in Melbourne, VIC.

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2023 included a group show at Flinders Lane Gallery and Outré Gallery, a finalist in the Lethbridge Landscape Prize and Dobell Drawing Prize, published work with Booooooom! in Tomorrow’s Talent Book III, and a December residency at Vermont Studio Center.

EDUCATION

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2006             Degree, Bachelor of Built Environment, Interior Design, QUT, Brisbane, Queensland

2002             Diploma, Fine Art Painting / Silver-smithing, TAFE, Rockhampton, Queensland

 

RESIDENCIES

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2024             Saruya AIR, Fujiyoshida, Japan (Forthcoming)

2023             Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA

2022             SIM, Korpúlfsstadir, Iceland

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2022             The Ghost Who Walks, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

2019             Sense, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2023             Delphian Open Call 23, Delphian Gallery, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London

                     Exploration 23, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne City, Melbourne

                     Locals 23, Outré Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Still Life Redux, Tacit Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

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2022             Feast, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     Revelations | Visionary Art Collective, Online

                     OURS, Ours Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     Path, The Nich, Dovetail Magazine, Online

                     Spring days, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Joy Seekers, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Lemonade, Honey Bones Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

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2021             Oysters & Art, Fort Heart, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     Bones, Honey Bones Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Spring days, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Overexposed, Visionary Projects NYC, Online

                     For the earth, Mafa Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     This Uncertain Freedom, Canvas Collective, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     The Darkest Night, The Old Bar Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     Winter days, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

 

2020             Resurrection, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Still Life, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne City, Melbourne

                     Hope in Isolation, Fort Heart, Online

                     Metamorph, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne City, Melbourne

                     Black&White Diary, Dubai, UAE

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2019             Family & friends, Daine Singer Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Christmas gallery show, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Small 45, FortyFive Downstairs, Melbourne City, Melbourne

                     Botanical Spring, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     Winter days, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Animalia, Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne

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ART PRIZES

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2023             Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cambelltown, NSW

                     Delphian open call 23, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London

                     Lethbridge 20000 Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, QLD

                     Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, QLD

                     Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW

 

2022             Winner - Art Room Prize, Still Life Art Prize, Tacit Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

                     Winner - Works on paper, Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

                     Emerging Artist Award, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne City, Melbourne

                     JADA Art Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton NSW

                     Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, NSW

 

2020             Shortlisted, Delphian summer show, Delphian Gallery, London

 

2019             ANL Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne

 

PUBLICATIONS

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2024             Create! Magazine: Issue 43, Create! Magazine 2023    

                     Tomorrow’s Talent Book III, Booooooom!

                     I like your work Winter Catalogue 23, ILYW

                     New Visionary Magazine 8, Visionary Art Collective

 

2022             Artist profile, Booooooom!

                     Path, The Nich, Dovetail Magazine

                     Canvas book II, Canvas Collective

 

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