Lynden Stone
I am a multi-disciplinary artist and arts educator however, my practice is mainly based in painting. I am currently exploring the theme "The Artist's Collection" - real and imagined objects collected by me. Within that theme, I am playing with materiality, pretence and illusion where I paint still lifes of collectable objects made of plastic, wood, metal ,etc that are give the illusion of something else -such as unicorns made of wood, plastic or fake fur; pigs made of plastic and metal, and ceramic, etc. I am also the artist behind the hilarious New Age parody Sacred Gaia Healing™ where my alter ego Angelica Leight and her marketing manager Runcely Chaser (played by my partner Robert Quinlan) peddle bogus New Age services and products. 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 and painting and drawing through the Victoria Government's Learn Local scheme.
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.