BIOGRAPHY
Lesley Duxbury is an artist whose interests are in the atmospherics of landscape and the sky through which she questions perceptions of place. The phenomenological experiences of extended walks in remote regions of the world, such as Baffin Island in Arctic Canada, Tierra del Fuego and Iceland, are the impetus for her investigations. Lesley has been exhibiting for over 25 years in solo and group shows in Australia, Korea, Austria and Hong Kong. She has undertaken artist residencies in Iceland (2012, 2015 and 2017), the Australia Council VACB studio Paris (1996) and the Fremantle Arts Centre, WA (2017). In 2011 she was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant (established artist). She is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Art, RMIT University.
Recent exhibitions include: 2023: Between Two Sites, Burrinja Cultural Centre, Victoria. 2022: Attending LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Vic; Shifting the Anthropocene: 4 Views from the Margins Manningham Gallery, Melbourne. 2021: Notes from the Field Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW; Burnie Print Prize, Tasmania; Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Victoria; Reflection/Submersion Holmes a Court Gallery (Perth International Arts Festival), WA. 2020: Artist Proof: the Collective Spirit of Freestone Press Gippsland Art Gallery Sale, Victoria; Swan Hill Prints & Drawings Award, Victoria. 2019: Echo: A Survey, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria. 2018: Imagine, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria; 2017: Phantasm, Herhusid, Siglufjordur, Iceland. 2016: Breathing Hemispheres Blindside, Melbourne. 2015: Sky Lab: lines of sight and forces of attraction Counihan Gallery, Melbourne; William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. 27° South to 19° North: Contemporary Australian Photography, The Museum of the City of Cuernavaca, Mexico. 2014: Kyoto Hanga Kyoto Municipal Museum & Fukuyama Art Museum, Japan. 2013: Bogong ELECTRIC site-specific artwork, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Victoria; Local Weather Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. 2012: Luminous World Art Gallery of Western Australia. 2011: Out of the West, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; 2112: Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. 2010: Sensational, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle; The Stony Rises Project, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. 2009: Melt, Sydney University Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 2008: Cold Front, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Her work is held in all major public collections in Australia.
Lesley Duxbury is an artist whose interests are in the atmospherics of landscape and the sky through which she questions perceptions of place. The phenomenological experiences of extended walks in remote regions of the world, such as Baffin Island in Arctic Canada, Tierra del Fuego and Iceland, are the impetus for her investigations. Lesley has been exhibiting for over 25 years in solo and group shows in Australia, Korea, Austria and Hong Kong. She has undertaken artist residencies in Iceland (2012, 2015 and 2017), the Australia Council VACB studio Paris (1996) and the Fremantle Arts Centre, WA (2017). In 2011 she was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant (established artist). She is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Art, RMIT University.
Recent exhibitions include: 2023: Between Two Sites, Burrinja Cultural Centre, Victoria. 2022: Attending LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Vic; Shifting the Anthropocene: 4 Views from the Margins Manningham Gallery, Melbourne. 2021: Notes from the Field Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW; Burnie Print Prize, Tasmania; Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Victoria; Reflection/Submersion Holmes a Court Gallery (Perth International Arts Festival), WA. 2020: Artist Proof: the Collective Spirit of Freestone Press Gippsland Art Gallery Sale, Victoria; Swan Hill Prints & Drawings Award, Victoria. 2019: Echo: A Survey, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria. 2018: Imagine, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria; 2017: Phantasm, Herhusid, Siglufjordur, Iceland. 2016: Breathing Hemispheres Blindside, Melbourne. 2015: Sky Lab: lines of sight and forces of attraction Counihan Gallery, Melbourne; William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. 27° South to 19° North: Contemporary Australian Photography, The Museum of the City of Cuernavaca, Mexico. 2014: Kyoto Hanga Kyoto Municipal Museum & Fukuyama Art Museum, Japan. 2013: Bogong ELECTRIC site-specific artwork, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Victoria; Local Weather Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. 2012: Luminous World Art Gallery of Western Australia. 2011: Out of the West, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; 2112: Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. 2010: Sensational, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle; The Stony Rises Project, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. 2009: Melt, Sydney University Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 2008: Cold Front, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Her work is held in all major public collections in Australia.
