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