LUCINDA KATE MCEACHERN TARAWIL -984 WINGEEL RD WINGEEL INVERLEIGH 3321 VIC AUSTRALIA TELEPONE 0419 893 954 E-MAIL lucymceachern@hotmail.com www.lucymceachern.com PERSONAL INFORMATION Nationality: Australian Date of Birth: 1981 Place of Birth: Camperdown, Victoria, Australia EDUCATION 2005- Diploma of Education, Melbourne University Parkville Victoria 2001-2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts Ceramics/ Sculpture, Monash University, Caulfield 1991-1999 Geelong Grammar School, Geelong Victoria ARTISTIC PROFILE Awards 2017:Margaret Gunnersen William Hoggan Thomson Award 2017 at the Association of Victoria Sculptors Annual Awards, Bourke St, Victoria 2017: Meridian Fine Art Foundry Prize, at the Association of Victoria Sculptors Annual Awards, Bourke St, Victoria 2017: 2 ND Prize at the Birregurra Annual Art Show, Birregurra, Victoria 2017: 2 nd Prize at Toorak Sculpture Prize, Toorak Village, Victoria 2017: First Place in the Association of Sculptor s Vic Melbourne International Garden Show, Cast Section, and second in the Peoples Choice Award 2013: First Prize in the Other Mediums section at Birregurra Art Festival 2012: Peoples Choice Award Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glen Vic 2012: First Prize in the Other Mediums section at Birregurra Art Festival 2011:Yering Station Sculpture Prize Wine Makers Choice Award, Yarra Glen Victoria 2011: Santos Acquisitive Sculpture Award 2011, Roma on Bungil, Queensland 2011: First Prize in the Other Mediums section at Birregurra Art Festival 2010: First Prize in the Other Mediums section at Birregurra Art Festival 2010: Woolangoon Art Prize, Mortlake Victoria 2009: Presidents Award at the All about Birds Exhibition Nunawading 2009: Peoples Choice Award at the All about Birds Exhibition Nunawading 2008: Celia Dymond Design Prize, at the Contemporary Sculpture Association Exhibition, Yarra Street Gallery Abbotsford, Melbourne 2002: Travelling Scholarship to study in Prato, Italy for a Semester (Monash University) and received 2 High Distinctions for the work completed in Italy
Solo Exhibitions 2016: Take off 2 Qdos Gallery, Lorne Victoria 2014: Birds in Bronze Tree House Gallery Birregurra Victoria 2014: Take Off Qdos Gallery, Lorne Victoria Group Exhibitions 2017: Mossgreen Gallery, High Street Armadale, Victoria 2017: Tesselaar Sculpture Exhibition, Monbulk Victoria 2017: On The Wing Blenheim Gallery, Longford Tasmania 2017: Association of Victoria Sculptors Annual Awards Exhibition, Bourke St 2017: Cut and Formed on the Plains with Vida Person, Yering Station, Yarra Glen 2017 Melbourne International Garden Show, Sculpture Section, Parkville Vic 2017 Lost Trades Fair, Kyneton, Victoria 2017 Mossgreen Gallery, High Street Armadale, Victoria 2017 Toorak Sculpture Prize, Toorak, Victoria Australia 2016: Toorak Sculpture Prize Toorak, Victoria Australia 2016: For the Birds Framed Gallery, Darwin NT 2016: Lorne Sculpture Biennale Lorne, Victoria Australia 2016: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Birds in Art 2016 Wisconsin, USA 2015: Pop up exhibition with Libbet Loughnan, Barwon Heads, Victoria 2015: Bridge 38 Bridge Rd, Melbourne Victoria 2015: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Birds in Art 2015 Wausau Wisconsin, 2015: Toorak Sculpture Prize, Toorak Melbourne Victoria 2014: Artisans in the Gardens Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney NSW 2014: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Birds in Art 2014 Wausau Wisconsin, 2014: Cut and Formed in the Plains Purple Noon Gallery Freemans Reach NSW 2014: Creativity at Corio- 100 years at Corio Geelong Grammar School, Victoria 2014: Toorak Sculpture Prize, Toorak Melbourne, Victoria 2014: Lorne Sculpture Prize Lorne Victoria 2013: New Acquisitions Geelong Gallery, Geelong Victoria 2013: Birregurra Art Festival, Birregurra Victoria 2013: Finalist in the Agendo 2013 Emerging Artist prize, The Abbotsford Convent Abbotsford, Melbourne. 2013: Jewels of the Wild Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park, Victoria 2013: Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria 2012: A Question of Scale, Geelong Regional Gallery, Geelong Victoria 2012: Birregurra Art Festival, Birregurra Victoria 2012: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Birds in Art 2011 Wausau Wisconsin,
2012: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yering Station Yarra Glen, Vic 2012: Mistletoe Sculpture Prize, Mistletoe Vineyard Hunter Valley NSW 2012: Wild Things Castlemaine Market Building, Castlemaine, Vic 2012: Cut and Formed on the Plains, Local Images Gallery, Penola, SA 2012: Backyard Bliss Framed The Darwin Gallery, Darwin, NT Australia 2012: Finalist in the Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Victoria 2011: Jewels of the Wild, Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park Victoria 2011: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yering Station Yarra Glen, Vic 2011: Finalist in the Agendo 2011 Emerging Artist prize, The Abbotsford Convent Abbotsford, Melbourne. 2011: Finalist in The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 2011: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Birds in Art 2011 Wausau Wisconsin, 2011: Finalist in the Lorne Sculpture Prize, Lorne Victoria 2011: Cut and Formed on the Plains with Vida Pearson, Yering Station, Yarra Glen Vic, Roma on Bugil Roma, QLD and Purple Noon Gallery Freemans Reach, NSW 2011: Finalist in the Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Victoria 2010: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glenn, Victoria 2010: Arnold Bloch Leibler Sculpture Exhibition, 333 Collins St Melbourne, Victoria 2010: Artisans in the Gardens Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney NSW 2010: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Birds in Art 2010 Wausau Wisconsin, 2010: Wildlife- Our Artistic Inspiration Gippsland Art Gallery Sale Victoria 2010: Season of Birds Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach, NSW 2010: Finalist in the Toorak Village Sculpture Prize Melbourne- Guinea Fowl 2009: Finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glen, Victoria 2009: All about Wildlife exhibition at Monsalvat, Eltham Victoria 2009: Birregurra Art Festival, Birregurra Victoria 2009: Finalist in the Arnold Bloch Leibler Sculpture Exhibition, Collins St Melb 2009: Golden Plains Art Exhibition, Bannockburn Victoria 2009: All about Birds Exhibition at Bird Observation & Conservation Australia, Nunawading, Victoria 2009: Finalist in the Toorak Sculpture Prize, Toorak Village, Melbourne- Barn Owl 2009: Art Melbourne- Metropolis Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2009: Herring Island Summer Arts Festival, Wildlife Art Society, Melbourne 2007: Selected and Exhibited in the top 40 of 500 Finalist in the Agendo Emerging Artists Competition, Cremorne Melbourne Barn Owl 2002: Exhibited Collages at the Monash University Campus in Prato, Italy
Publications 2016: Birds in Art 2016 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 2015: Australian Geographic 2016 Calender, page 2 2015 Birds in Art 2015 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 2014: Inspiration Wild, an Artistic Celebration of Nature and the Environment Wildlife Art Museum of Australia, First publication, publish by WAMA foundation 2014 p68/69/127 2014: Birds in Art 2014 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 2014: Artists in Residance- The Sculptor Geelong and Surf Coast Living Magazine, Winter 2014 p22-25 2013: Qdos Arts Presents Lucy McEachern Sculptures Art and Antiques in Victoria December 2013 April 2014 p53 2013: Toorak Villages 12 th Annual Sculpture Exhibition Art and Antiques in Victoria, April- August 2013 p16 2012: Birds in Art 2012 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 2012: Artist Profile- Lucy McEachern Wildlife Art Society of Australasia, Vol 36 No1 Feb 2012 p8 2011: Birds in Art 2011 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 90 2011: Lucy McEachern at Birds in Art 2011 USA Not Just Plain Arts, Golden Plains Shire, Oct 2011 p3 2011: Purple Noon puts on a show Hawkesbury Courier, Thurs 9 th of June 2011 p4 2011: Profiles Art Almanac, The Australian Gallery Guide, June 2011 p182 2011: Artists hit finest form Roma Lifestyle, The Western Star, May 3 2011 p19 2011: Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition- a decade of Sculpture Antiques and Art in Victoria, April- August 2011 p24 2011: Sculptor Profile Lorne Sculpture 2011, Newsletter 2, May 2011 p1 2011: Out of the Black Yarra Valley and Ranges Magazine, Issue 6 Autumn 11 p106 2010: Truly Wild Awards Australian Artist N0. 314, Aug 2010 P no. 6 2010: Birds in Art 2010 Wildlife Art Society of Australasian Inc, Vol 34 No.4 November 2010, page 6 2010: Birds in Art 2010 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 82 2010: 'Carving out an International Reputation' Geelong Advertiser, GT Magazine 7th August p20 2010: Buyers flock to bronzed birds The Weekly Times, 12 th May 2010 p83 2010: Not Just Plain Arts 2010, Golden Plains Shire Newsletter, January 2010 p4 2010: Art and Antiques in Victoria, December 09- April 2010, page 70 2009: Light Blue, Issue No. 77 April 2009, page 27 2009: Art and Antiques in Victoria, December 08- April 09, page 60 Collections Leigh Yawky Woodson Art Museum, Wisconsin USA Alexandra Club, Collins Street Melbourne Churchie Grammar School, Brisbane Queensland Geelong Grammar School Garnet House, Corio Victoria Lambleys Nursery, Ascot Victoria Portland and District Hospital, Portland Victoria Roma on Bungil Regional Gallery, Roma Queensland Yering Station Vineyard, Yarra Glen Victoria Geelong Gallery, Victoria Yarra Valley Polo Club Commissions Lindsay Family- Gifted to the Alexandra Club, Collins Street, Melbourne F and R Vaccari Alcoa Portland- Gifted to the Portland and District Hospital McBain Family- Gifting to Geelong Grammar School, Corio N Denniston gifted to The Beggs
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