"94"
by Heather Lee
2008 - Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), La Trobe University, Mildura, Victoria
2007 - Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), La Trobe University, Mildura, Victoria
2004 - Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts), Sunraysia Tafe, Mildura, Victoria
2002 - Certificate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training, Mildura, Victoria
My art is strongly
influenced by my research into sports' sociology and the way Australia's
historical foundations have permeated through to the present time.
Recently, my particular area of interest has been the experiences of
Indigenous cricketers and how their legacies have become metaphors for
discourses on personal identity.
The imagery resulting from such investigations tends to carry a duality of
meaning and sits within a minimal symbolist aesthetic.
I work across various media including printmaking, sculpture, digital
printmaking, silk painting and drawing.
“94”
Based on the image of a worn cricket ball, 94
is a consideration of the life of Johnny Mullagh who toured England in the
1860’s as a integral member of the Australian Indigenous cricket team.
Ninety-four was Mullagh’s highest batting score, but this work
(full title, 94..but who’ll carry
the drinks) seeks to establish an awareness of his life after cricket.
In 1891 Mullagh died alone on his traditional land, the last of his
tribe.
2008 - Ovah!, Mildura, Victoria
2008
- 2009
Emblems: La Trobe University Visual Arts and Design 2008 Honours
Exhibition, La Trobe University Art Museum, Bundoora, Victoria
2008
School of Visual Arts and Design Honours Exhibition, La Trobe University
View Street Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design Honours Year Exhibition, Chaffey 7,
Mildura, Victoria
Wangumma Artists, Wentworth, NSW
Wetlands Wet and Dry - a study of water without water, Gallery 25,
Mildura, Victoria
2006
Mildura Rotary Art Show, Victoria
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Victoria
2005
Check-it, Visual Arts and Graphic Design Student Exhibition, Mildura
Victoria
2004
Wentworth Art Prize, Wentworth, NSW
City of Whyalla Art Prize, South Australia
2003
Drawing from Life, The Nichols Point Life Drawing Group, Mildura Arts
Centre, Victoria
2001
Rotary Club of Merbein Easter Art Prize, Victoria
2000
Opening Doors, CRS Australia, Mildura, Victoria
Riposte, Visual Arts Student Exhibition, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
1999
Whyalla Show, South Australia
1997
Sunset in Spring, Mildura Victoria
1996
Sunset
in Spring, Mildura Victoria
Wangumma
Artists
Australian Society for Sports History
2008 - La Trobe University Dean's Honours List
2007 - Mildura Students' Association Colin Barrie Memorial Acquisition Award for Visual Arts, La Trobe University
2001 - Second Prize - Any Medium, Rotary Club of Merbein Easter Art Prize, Victoria
1999
- First Prize - Animal Study, Whyalla Show, South Australialendar
1999 - First Prize - Painting of Flowers, Whyalla Show, South Australia
1997 - Artistic Merit - Local Artist, Sunset in Spring, Mildura, Victoria
La Trobe University,
Mildura, Victoria
Private Collections