Camie Lyons
b. 1968
Over the centuries, artists have been fortune tellers, warning the state of play both socially and with the environment. There is a great deal of sensibility in today’s art world which has its eye well and truly on the preservation and wellbeing of our shared world with nature.
This attitude is revealed most beautifully in the work of Camie Lyons. We are looking at bronze sculptures, sometimes mounted on concrete, but the genesis of Camie’s work is nature itself.
Camie Lyons is a Sydney-based artist that works across a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting and drawing. Lyons’ artistic practice is largely inspired by and incorporates her intuition and experience as a contemporary dancer, as she explores the free-flowing possibility of lines, form and movement in space. Lyons studied Fine Arts at RMIT in Melbourne and later completed her Masters at the College of Fine Art (COFA), UNSW in Sydney. She has held several solo exhibitions with Olsen Irwin Gallery in Sydney and Scott Livesey in Melbourne, and has showed internationally at Australasian Art Projects and the Australian High Commission in Singapore, as well as The Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong. Camie is currently represented by Australian Galleries in Sydney.
Lyons has travelled extensively throughout her life and has been an Artist in Residence in Haefligers Cottage at Hill End, 2 residencies at Bull Bay on Bruny Island, BigCi creative ground and Gang Gang residencies and most recently at AIRspace in Oatlands Tasmania. She has completed numerous studies at Chalmers University in Sweden as guest artist and received a scholarship from the Sorros Foundation to study movement techniques in Bulgaria.
Lyons was awarded first prize at Sculpture at Scenic World and the Mount Eyre Art Prize and received the Highly Commended awards for the Wollongong Sculpture Prize, The Hawksbury Art Prize and the Live in Art Prize by the Zorbos Group. She has been a finalist in many well know awards including the Dobell drawing prize, Sculptures by the Sea Bondi, Ravenswood Womens prize and the Woollahra Small Sculpture award.
Recent large corporate commissions include the Langham in Qld, the AMP Capitol Building, Deloitte Bank circular Quay and the Hilton and Tiffany’s in Sydney CBD. Lyons has created public sculpture for Waverley Council, City of Sydney Council, Stonnington Council Vic, for Hoi Ha Wan Marine reserve in Hong Kong and in Slottskogen Gardens, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work can be found in public and private collections in Australia and around the globe. She continues to explore and develop her art practice, connecting a past in the physical world of dance to the very physical act of making sculpture with a deep respect and concern for our precious environment.
