Lynden Stone
I am a multi-disciplinary artist and arts educator however, my practice is mainly based in painting. My current body of artwork questions the unique role human observation, or consciousness, might play in collapse of quantum superposition.
Nobel laureate and Princeton University physicist Eugene Wigner was of the view that human consciousness was the active agent of collapse of quantum superposition and the answer to the measurement problem.
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler’s view of a “participatory universe” emphasises the role of the observer in creating observed phenomena. Commenting on the measurement problem he said, “The dependence of what is observed upon the choice of experimental arrangement conflicts with the view that the universe exists ‘out there’ independent of all acts of observation”. His view was that no phenomenon is a phenomenon until observed, and in this sense, it is a “participatory universe”.
I use the Klein bottle in my work as a metaphor for the creative relationship between subject and object. The Klein bottle is a mathematical construct existing in four dimensions where it is both open and closed, continuously one-sided and without the need for self-penetration. I understand the four-dimensional Klein bottle to be self-referential; describing the continual creative dynamic and interplay of subject, object and space similar to our own possible creative roles as participants in the dynamic relationship between observation and creation of phenomena. I also use marbles as a reference to Newtonian "cause and effect" physics which is contrary to the way subatomic quantum "particles" behave at the pre-material level.
I currently live in the outer north east of Melbourne on Mount Dandenong after having lived in Brisbane and Northern NSW. I have taught painting and drawing at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane. I've also taught at QUT, South Bank TAFE Brisbane and TAFE NSW Murwillumbah. I currently teach art history online for TAFE Murwillumbah in their Degree course, and painting and drawing through the Victoria Government's Learn Local scheme.
Education
2014 awarded PhD in Fine Art from Griffith University (Queensland College of Art)
Biography:
Arts Related Education:
2014 – PhD Visual Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2009 – First Class Honours in Fine Art, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
2008 – Bachelor of Fine Art, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
Arts Related Appointments/Employment:
2021 – present online sessional teacher in Visual Art history and art business practice, TAFE Murwillumbah
2018 – 2021 sessional teacher in visual art (painting, drawing, art history, theories of creativity and creative thinking and art business practice)
2015 – 2016 – sessional teacher in Painting, Printmaking and Image-making, TAFE South Bank
2016 – sessional tutor, Foundation Units, Bachelor of Creative Industries, QUT Kelvin Grove.
2015 – sessional teacher in visual art – Bachelor of Visual Art, Canberra University @ TAFE Soutbank
2015 – sessional lecturer and instructor, Law for Artists and Designers, Griffith University
2014 – 2015 - Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research
2014 – sessional instructor in Painting and Drawing, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2012 – sessional instructor in Painting, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Selected Art Awards/Prizes:
2022 – Finalist Tacit Still Life Prize
2018 – Finalist Hurford Hardwood Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery
2015 – Finalist Clayton Utz Prize, Clayton Utz, Brisbane
2014 – Finalist Moreton Bay Regional Art Prize
2011 – Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize
2008 – Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
2007 – Sunsuper Fine Art Award for Outstanding Achievement in Painting, Griffith University
2007 – Finalist Churchie Emerging Art Show
2006 – Third prize, Redland Art Awards – Redlands Regional Art Gallery
2004 , 2005, 2006, 2007 Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence for studies in Bachelor of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions:
SLIGHTLY USED VERY CLEAN CHAKRAS, The Box Gallery, Sandbox Studios, Brunswick Melbourne, June 2022
MEGA DISCOUNT PRICE SLASH, The Walls Art Space, Miami Gold Coast, October 2020
Remedies for the New Age, ArtPost Uki, January 2019
Remedies for the New Age, The Trailer Project at the Byron School of Art October 2018, Mullumbimby
Sacred Gaia Healing™, September 2016, Bosz Gallery, New Farm, Brisbane
Objects that hold us in place – artefacts of consciousness, 2014, Bosz Gallery, New Farm, Brisbane
Two Mars bars and the love note from Robert Smeets, 2014, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Encounters with Quantum, 2012, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No Singular Reality, 2012, Queensland College of Art, Gallery Room, Webb Centre
Measuring 24 months, 2011, Queensland College of Art, 7 Floor, Webb Centre
Intimates spaces, February 2009, Edwina Corlette Gallery, New Farm, Brisbane
Works by Lynden Stone
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
We would like to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which our building stands, their leaders, past, present and emerging.