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 created by the human body. 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 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 and now with Gallery HZ in Hong Kong.

Lyons has travelled extensively throughout her life and has been awarded numberous placements as Artist in Residence in Sweden, Bulgaria, Bull Bay (TAS), and Haefligers Cottage in Hill End (NSW) which resulted in her first solo regional museum exhibition at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2019. In 2020 Lyons was gifted a residency at BigCi Interanational Ground for Artists by Sculpture at Scenic World and also received another residency to join a prestigious lineage of creatives at Umbi Gumbi Art Residency. Lyons completed four large scale drawing commissions for Tiffany & Co. which are now on permanent display at their flagship store in Sydney, and recently completed a full body of drawings for the New refurbishment for The Hilton in Sydney. Most recently she was highly awarded in the Live in Art 2020 invitational Art Prize and was a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sweden, France, London, Thailand and New York.

 Camie Lyons is represented by the nation’s leading gallerist Stuart Purves at Australian Galleries, which opened in 1956 by Anne and Tam Purves and from the beginning their gallery developed a reputation for representing the most prominent and influential Australian artists including ; Arthur Boyd, Jeffrey Smart, Lloyd Rees, Brett Whiteley, John Kelly, William Robinson, Garry Shead, Tim Storrier, John Wolseley, Inge King, George Baldessin, Lenton Parr as well as the Estate of John Coburn. Camie’s comprehensive work sits nicely in among these masters of the genre.

CAMIE LYONS

EDUCATION

2005 Master of Fine Art (Sculpture), College of Fine Arts, Paddington (COFA)
1999 Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
2000 Concrete Course, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
2001 Studied Butoh and Laban Movement Techniques, Soros Foundation, Bulgaria
2003 Granite Course, Sten Academy & Chalmers University, Sweden

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 ‘A Physical Response’ Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Making Meaning’ Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2019 ‘A Physical Response’ Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
‘Humming Space’ Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 
2018 ‘Untethered’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017 ‘Out on a limb’, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2016 ‘Spirit Recovered’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
‘Tenderness and Tenacity’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 ‘Rural Romance’, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
‘Solid Drawing’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 ‘Finding Beauty’, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2012 ‘Just This Moment’, Australian Arts Projects, Singapore
2011 ‘Wallflower (entering space)’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2009    ‘In the Zone’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
    ‘Lyrical’, Richard Martin Art, Sydney
2008    ‘Falling’, Richard Martin Art, Sydney
2007   ‘Ionosphere’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2005    ‘Casting Into Space’, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
‘Ned & Bob’, Hungerford & Edmunds Architects, Sydney
2004 ‘e:Motion’, Spence & Lyda, Sydney
2000 ‘Earth Cycle’, Gothenburg City Gardens, Sweden (on permanent display)
  ‘Moebius Dance’, Sherman Galleries windowbox, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Sculpture at Scenic World 2020, Blue Mountains, NSW (postponed 2021)
‘Persona’ Gallery HZ, Hong Kong
2020 Sydney Contemporary with Australian Galleries
2019 Sydney Contemporary Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, NSW
2017 ‘At Bull Bay’, Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2015 ‘At Bull Bay’, Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2014  ‘Singapore Affordable Art Fair’ with Australasian Art Projects, Singapore
2013  ‘Loaded: The Ned Kelly Exhibition’, Australian High Commission, Singapore
‘Grounded’, Australian High Commission, Australian Arts Projects Singapore
2013 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair with Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2012 Melbourne Art Fair with Tim Olsen Gallery, Melbourne
2011  ‘Wattle: A Survey of Contemporary Australian Art’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010   Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Sculpture 2010’ Tim Olsen Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney
‘Signal 8’ Summer Show, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
    Melbourne Art Fair with Tim Olsen Gallery
2009 Hong Kong Art Fair with Cat Street Gallery
Hong Kong Art Walk, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2008    ‘Signal 8’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2006    ‘Friend Lyons Petrie’, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
    ‘Sculpture 2006’, Global Gallery, Sydney
2004 ‘Push Hard Cut Deep’, Avja Yards, Sweden
2003 ‘Granite Plays’, Hunnebostrand, Sweden

GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2021 Winner Sculpture at Scenic World
2021 Winner Cultural Art Prize from Katoomba Public Art Gallery and Cultural Center, Blue Mountains
2020 Highly Commended Award for the Live in Art 2020 Invitational Art Prize,
Zobon Group, Sydney/China
2020 Selected artist to attend the Artist Residency at BigCi Australia,
funded by Scenic World Blue Mountains
Finalist for SXS 2020, Bondi (postponed to 2021)
Received the Umbi Gumbi Creative Residency, June 2020, Cuttagee NSW
Suite of drawings commissioned by the Hilton Hotel fior full refurbishment of Sydney Building
2019 ‘Symbols of Endearment’ 4 large drawings commissioned by Tiffany & Co
For Sydney Flagship Store, permanent display
2018 Hill End Artist Residency, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2017 Public Sculpture and Wall Works commissioned by Bates Smart Architects, VIC
Bull Bay Artist in Residency, Bruny Island, Tasmania
2016 ‘Natures Waltz’ Kerry Hotel, 2 large entrance foyer sculptures, Hong Kong
2014 Bull Bay Artist in Residency, Bruny Island, Tasmania
2011 ‘True Project’ sculpture commission for Phuket, Thailand
2009 ‘Many Leaps Towards You’ entrance foyer wall installation, Pullman Hotel
2008 Public sculpture commission, Hoi Ha Wan National Marine Reserve, Hong Kong
2006 Public sculpture commission ‘Offering’ for Sydney City Council, Sydney
2005 Awarded Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
2004 Guest Artist, Stone Academy Hunnebostrand, Sweden
2003 Artist in Residence (Stone sculpting course), Chalmers University, Sweden
2001 Soros Foundation Scholarship to attend Butoh and Laban Technique, Bulgaria
2000 Winner of the Baron Edson Public Art Commission, Waverly Council, Sydney
  Artist in Residence (Concrete course), Chalmers University, Sweden

COLLECTIONS

Public and private collections in Australia, England, Sweden, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Hong Kong, France, Thailand, Hawaii and New York
Public collections – Gothenburg City Gardens, Slottskogen, concrete sculpture 
Hoi Ha Wan Marine Reserve, Hong Kong, bronze and sandstone sculpture
Sydney City Council – Offering, bronze and sandstone sculpture public sculpture
Waverley City Council – Local Branches, bronze public sculpture