About the Artist
ABOUT
Lindy Sale spent her early years in remote western Queensland until moving to Brisbane for secondary school and university. She subsequently studied visual art and is a graduate of the Queensland College of Art. She has been an exhibiting artist for over twenty-five years.
Lindy was the 2018 winner of the Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award. She has been highly commended in award exhibitions including the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape Prize (2021, 2022) and the Clayton Utz Art Prize (2017, 2020, 2021, 2023). She has been a finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing (2023) and the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (2020, 2022) and was selected as a finalist for the Milburn Art Prize (2021) and the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting (2023).
Her work carries a theme which reflects her interest in the natural world around her. Recently she has considered the psychological effects of the natural environment, for example observation of clouds in the sky above or the complexity of a forest, and how this might be expressed in paint. Drawing is an extremely important element of her practice.
In 2021 she moved from Brisbane, Queensland to live on the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Her studio is at the top of a ridge. The land drops away through forest to eventually reach a creek in the valley. Influenced by her new surroundings, the subject of her artwork has moved towards forest landscape.
Bachelor of Visual Arts in Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Forest Sounds, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Platypus Creek, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Wandering, Lethbridge Gallery (Bulimba), Brisbane
2018 Shifting Worlds, Graydon Gallery, New Farm, Brisbane
2012 We are as clouds, Anita Traverso AT_Salon, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria
2011 Recent Works, Three White Rooms, Paddington, Brisbane.
2008 Lush Harvest, Gallery Tokonoma, Mudgeeraba, Gold Coast, Queensland
2007 Ithaca Creek Two, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane
2004 Ithaca Creek, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane
1998 Subdivision, Smith + Stoneley on Stratton, Newstead, Brisbane
1995 Surface Paradise, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024-25 Flying Arts Queensland Regional Art Awards Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Touring Exhibition
2023 More Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa
2023 Local Artists Local Content, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra
2022 Local Artists Local Content, Caloundra Regional gallery, Caloundra
2018 Scape to Scape, Lethbridge Gallery (Bulimba), Brisbane
2013 Illuminate, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane
2011 Belle Arti, Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Melbourne
2010 The Stanthorpe Art Festival exhibition, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery
2009 Seeds Scattered Far and Wide, Niche Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Doggett Street Studio Winter Exhibition, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane
2006 Off the Wall, Art Sydney 06, Royal Hall of Industries and Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, N.S.W.
2005 Tango, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane (as featured painter)
2000 Close to the Heart, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane
2000 Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition 2000, Churchie, Brisbane
1999 finale, Smith + Stoneley on Stratton, Newstead, Brisbane
1999 Churchie Exhibition of Emerging Art, Churchie, Brisbane
1998 gold, frankincense and myrrh, Smith + Stoneley on Stratton, Newstead, Brisbane
1995 Artistcare Drawing Prize exhibition, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
1995 Combust , Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Artistcare Drawing Prize exhibition, Queensland College of Art Gallery and Magazine Space, Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane
1994 Women's History, Magazine Space, Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane
1994 The Greatest Show on Earth, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
AWARDS AND SELECTION
2025 Local Contemporary Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra
2024 Selection - Redland Art Award, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Queensland
2024 Selection - John Leslie Art Prize for Landscape Painting, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2023 Selection - Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Queensland College of Art and Design Galleries, South Brisbane
2023 Selection - Dobell Prize for Drawing #23, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2023 Highly Commended - The Clayton Utz Art Award, Clayton Utz, Brisbane
2023 Selection - Local Artists Local Content, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra
2022 Selection - Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, PLC, Croydon, Sydney
2022 Highly Commended - The Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Selection - Local Artists Local Content, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra
2021 Highly Commended - The Clayton Utz Art Award, Clayton Utz, Brisbane
2021 Highly Commended - The Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Selection - The Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art, Windsor, Brisbane
2020 Selection - Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, PLC, Croyden , Sydney
2020 Highly Commended - Clayton Utz Art Prize, Clayton Utz, Brisbane
2019 Selection - Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane
2018 Winner - Lethbridge 10,000, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane
2017 Selection - Lethbridge 10,000, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane
2017 Highly Commended - Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane
2016 Selection - The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adelaide, S.A.
2010 Selection - The Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
2009 Highly Commended - The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Exhibition, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia and at the National Archives, Canberra, A.C.T.
2009 Selection - The Prometheus Art Award Exhibition, Gold Coast, Queensland
2007 Winner (open award) - Roma Art Prize, Roma, Queensland
2006 Commended - The Warwick Art Prize 2006, Warwick, Queensland
2006 Selection - Off the Wall, Art Sydney 06, Royal Hall of Industries and Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, NSW
2003 Highly Commended - Aspects Art Exhibition, Goondiwindi, Queensland
2002 Winner (open award) - Roma Art Prize, Roma, Queensland
2002 Selection - The Warwick Art Prize Year 2002 Exhibition, Warwick, Queensland
2000 Selection - Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition 2000, Brisbane
1999 Winner (over 35 category) - Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition 1999, Brisbane
1995 Winner - Artistcare Drawing Prize, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane