Waratah Lahy (born 1974) is an artist and art teacher based in Canberra, Australia.
Waratah Lahy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Known for | Painting |
| Website | waratahlahy |
In 2007, she completed a Doctorate of Philosophy (Visual Arts) at the Australian National University's School of Art. Her thesis explored the depiction of Australian culture.[1]
Exhibitions edit
Solo exhibitions edit
Lahy's first solo exhibition was Eleven ships at Canberra Contemporary Art Space (October 1999), with works painted on blankets, addressing notions of Australian identity and comfort. Sonia Barron reviewed the exhibition as "...questioning, rather than conclusive."[2]
Her exhibition Crowd: Australian culture at the Canberra School of Art (2003) included silhouettes cut from beer cans, and was reviewed positively for its quirkiness and humour.[3]
Group exhibitions edit
Lahy showed oils on linen in Stitched up and going off at Canberra Contemporary Art Space (August–September 2000).[4]
Her bottle-top miniatures in Found out at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (2006) were reviewed as "delightful", and changing the idea of the landscape genre.[5]
Lahy's work in Natural Digression at Level 17 Artspace (October 2010) was reviewed as not necessarily occupying the space of photographic documentation or drawings.[6]
She contributed nostalgic miniature oil on glass works to It's A Small World at the Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie (August–September 2013).[7] Later that same year, her miniature paintings were in The Christmas show at Beaver Galleries, Canberra, and were reviewed as dreamlike and disturbing.[8]
She was part of Pareidolia: cloud gazing at Megalo Print Gallery, Canberra (March–April 2017). Her monotypes of aliens in suburbia were reviewed in the Canberra Times as being "...slightly menacing and disturbing...".[9]
Exhibition catalogues edit
- Stitched up, 2000.[10]
- Look: the Australian National University, School of Art, Graduate Program in Visual Arts, Visual Arts Graduate Season 2007, February and March 2007.[11]
- Push your buttons: badges by Al Munro, Barbara McConchie, Bernie Slater, Charlie Sofo, David Wills, Ivo Lovric, Lucy Quinn, Sivia Vélez, Stephanie Jones, Waratah Lahy: exhibition 24 April - 5 May 2007, foyer gallery, ANU School of Art, Canberra.[12]
- 30 years | 30 artists | 30 works : 24 November to 19 December 2015.[13]
Awards edit
Lahy received the Helen Maxwell Award in December 2005, for her Found 2004 work.[14]
She won the EASS Patrons' Graduate Anniversary Scholarship in March 2006.[15]
She had a residency at Megalo Print Studio and Gallery in 2012.[16]
References edit
- ^ Lahy, Waratah (2007). Painted objects: investigating the imagery of Australian iconic culture. Canberra: Australian National University.
- ^ Barron, Sonia (24 October 1999). "Connecting with the past". The Canberra Times. p. 20.
- ^ Anderson, Fleur (27 July 2003). "Circuit Canberra". The Sunday Telegraph. p. 124.
- ^ Barron, Sonia (9 August 2000). "Postmodern context in group showing". The Canberra Times. p. 14.
- ^ Slade, Lisa (11 November 2006). "Rescue me". The Newcastle Herald. p. 30.
- ^ Rann, Kirsten (March 2011). "Natural Digression: to see what we don't yet know we are seeing". Art Monthly Australia. 237: 12–14 – via Informit.
- ^ Fairhurst, Tracey (2 August 2013). "All things small make up a fascinating new exhibition". Port Macquarie News. p. 15.
- ^ "Mastering the fine art of the miniature". The Canberra Times. 14 December 2013. p. 23.
- ^ "Pareidolia: cloud gazing various artists". The Canberra Times. 24 March 2017. p. 33.
- ^ Byrne, Lisa (2000). Stitched up. Braddon, Canberra, Australia: CCAS. ISBN 1875526625.
- ^ Look : the Australian National University, School of Art, Graduate Program in Visual Arts, Visual Arts Graduate Season 2007, February and March 2007. Canberra: Australian National University. 2007. ISBN 0731530454.
- ^ Push your buttons : badges by Al Munro, Barbara McConchie, Bernie Slater, Charlie Sofo, David Wills, Ivo Lovric, Lucy Quinn, Sivia Vélez, Stephanie Jones, Waratah Lahy : exhibition 24 April - 5 May 2007, foyer gallery, ANU School of Art, Canberra. Canberra: ANU School of Art Gallery. 2007. ISBN 9780646474182.
- ^ 30 years | 30 artists | 30 works : 24 November to 19 December 2015. Waterloo, N.S.W., Australia: Brenda May Gallery. 2015.
- ^ "Just about every year at this time, I remind readers of how I once saw a whale...". The Canberra Times. 3 December 2005. p. 21.
- ^ Musa, Helen (24 March 2006). "ANU art school announces postgraduate scholarships". The Canberra Times. p. 4.
- ^ "City reflected in print; Printmaker Trevor Dickinson spoke to Joni Scanlon about his mission to draw and print the many varied elements that make Canberra a city with soul". The Canberra Times. 15 May 2012. p. 10.