12.30pm – 1.30pm Wednesday 13 July 2022
The title of Lindy Lee’s exhibition, Moon in a Dew Drop, acknowledges a text of that title by Zen Master Dogen. In that text, Dogen says “Long ago a monk asked an old master, “When hundreds, thousands, or myriads of objects come all at once, what should be done?” The master replied, “Don’t try to control them.” In Dr McNamara’s talk, Zen and the dance of artistic letting go, in the context of Lindy Lee’s art and her long-term commitment to Daoism and Zen, will be explored.
Speaker
Dr Phil McNamara is a West Australian Art Historian, practising artist, educator, and long-term student of Zen with the Zen Group of Western Australia. ZGWA is affiliated with the Diamond Sangha and thereby the Sydney Zen Group that Lindy Lee has been a long-term member of.
Image: Lindy Lee, Love (An Unbounded Heart), 2017. From The Immeasurables, mirror polished stainless steel, LED, image courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney and Singapore, © the artist
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John Curtin Gallery, Building 200A, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley WA 6102
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EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Open until 28 August 2022
Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sun 12pm-4pm
LINDY LEE: MOON IN A DEW DROP
3 JUNE – 28 AUGUST 2022
Lindy Lee is one of the most respected contemporary artists working in Australia today. Influential Australian Chinese artist, Lindy Lee, explores identity, history, spirituality and our relationship to the cosmos. She creates meditative works using light, shadow and scale across many artforms.
Moon in a Dew Drop takes an in-depth look at four decades of extraordinary practice.
Working across a range of disciplines including painting, sculpture, installation and public art, Lee draws on her Australian and Chinese heritage to develop works that engage with the history of art, cultural authenticity, personal identity and the cosmos. Key influences are the philosophies of Daoism and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, which explore the connections between humanity and nature.
Take in shimmering, meditative and thought-provoking works in her major survey exhibition which draws on her experience of living between two cultures.
