ARTIST'S STATEMENT
With my base of the urban domestic experience and my weapons of humour including wit, whimsey, parody, satire and nonsense I enjoy making the ordinary extraordinary and the devalued valued. I regard household implements as icons of the past and to give them new breath I "play" with them in any way possible in any material and in any manner including the mechanical and the electrical. I survive on a sense of humour and intuitively enjoy the simple and the childlike.
BIOGRAPHY
Qualified as a Medical Technician in 1966, lived in Scotland for 2 years and worked as potter's assistant. Numerous art workshops with teachers such as Guy Warren, Nigel Harrison, George Gittoes and Elisabeth Cummings and a year at the School of Colour and Design in Sydney. Qualified as an Archaeologist specialising in post-settlement Australia.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PRIZES
2007
"Art + Humour", group exhibition, Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo
Sculptors Society, gorup exhibition, Mosman Village
2006
"Small", group exhibition, Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo
"Stuff Happens" Solo exhibition Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo
2005
"Art and Humour" Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Waterloo,
2004
Darling Park, Sculptor's Society Exhibition
"Hotbed" Group Sculpture Exhibition, Bondi Pavilion
2003
"Courtyard Sculpture" Inaugural exhibition in the Sculpture Courtyard, Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby
Casula Powerhouse Liverpool Art Prize
2002
Group Exhibition - Members, Workshop Arts Centre
Casula Powerhouse Liverpool Art Prize Recycled Art
2001
Group exhibition - "Christmas" 15 Dec. PCL Gallery
2001
Installation - group exhibition "re-creation" at Bicentennial Park, Homebush Bay, Sydney, 3 Dec 2001 - 31 Jan 2002
2001
Solo exhibition "Kitchen Gods", PCL Gallery Strawberry Hills, Sydney Nove 20 - Dec 1
2001
Sculpture submission accepted - Townsville, Queensland, "Strand Ephemera" September 2001 "Tribe" composed of 7 figures.
2000
February, Drawing marathon at PCL Gallery, "Hung Drawn and Painted".
Selected, Members Art Prize, Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby, Sydney
1998
Sculptures and painting in two women exhibition at PCL Gallery
1997
Three women exhition at the Rocks, Sydney.
Selected "Salon des Refuses" SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Group exhibit at Ewart Gallery, Sydney
1996
Exhibited Ewart Gallery, Sydney
Selected Warringah Art Prize, Willoughby Art Prize
Group exhibition with 4 painters, PCL Gallery
1995
Selected, Waverly Art Prize, painting
Group exhibition, painting, at Ewart Gallery, Sydney
1994
Selected Willoughby Municipal Art Pize and Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
1993
Lane Cove Municipal Art Award - commended
Mosman Art Prize - selected
1991
Southern Cross Art Exhibition, Caltex Open Award - Highly Commended
Lane Cove Municipal Art Award, Second Prize and Highly Commended
Castle Hill Art Society, Drawing - Highly Commended, Landscape - Very Highly Commended, Still Life- Very Highly Commended, Pastel - Very Highly Commended
INSTALLATION
2001
Selected for installation in Townsville, Queensland. "Strand Ephemera".
2001
"re-creation" exhibition, Bicentennial Park, Homebush Bay, Sydney
SELECTED ARTICLES
Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2006 p.15 Arts & Entertainment and photograph p. 20
North Shore Times, Friday, Dec 7 2001 "In Style" DARE2 Sculpture Group exhibition Bicentennial Park, Homebush Bay, Sydney.
Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition, Nov 24 - 25, 2001. "Exhibitions" "Kitchen Gods" by Lenny Ann Low
Daily Telegraph "Sydney Live" Nov 20, 2001 re "Kitchen Gods" exhibition
Daily Telegraph "Homes" section, Nov 17 2001 re "Kitchen Gods" exhibition
"Coast to Coast" ABC TV Programme 12 Nov 2001 - installation in Townsville
Craft Arts International "Painted in Spain", No 33, 1995
