LUCY MCEACHERN
A renowned, bronze sculptor drawing inspiration from rural Australia, McEachern developed a deep affinity with the enchanting birds which dwell in the local landscape after growing up in rural Victoria.
McEachern’s sculptures can be found throughout Australia and collections worldwide and not only capture the subject’s individual characteristics but also invite the viewer to feel the contours in a celebration of form and presence.
McEachern’s sculptures have been to Birds in Art, America (Wisconsin) and her work is held in the permanent collection of the Leigh Yawky Woodson Art Museum.
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
2020 Heirloom, Qdos Gallery Lorne Victoria
2019 Cut and Formed on the Plains’ Blenhiem Gallery Longford, Tasmaina
2019 ‘Form’ Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove Victoria
2019 ‘Art Meets Nature’ Wildlife Art Museum of Australia, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
2019 ‘Outside In’ Owen Dixon Chambers East, Level 11, 205 Williams St Melbourne
2019 ‘Wings’ Faulkner Gallery Castlemain, Victoria
2019 Toorak Sculpture Awards, Toorak Village Melbourne
2019 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Parkville, Melbourne
2018 ‘Cut and Formed on The Plains 3’ Purplenoon Gallery NSW
2018 Creatures Great and Small’ Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliffe Vic
2018 ‘Art Meets Nature’ Wildlife Art Museum of Australia Exhib, Wingeel, Victoria
2018 ‘Formed on the Plains’ Studio 11, 205 Williams Street Melbourne
2018 Tesselaar Sculpture Exhibition, Monbulk Victoria
2018 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum ‘Birds in Art 2018’ Wisconsin, USA
2018 Toorak Sculpture Awards, Toorak Village Melbourne
2018 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Parkville, Melbourne
2018 Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne
2018 Heirloom, Odos gallery Lorne, Victoria
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, United States of America
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, United States of America
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, United States of America
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, United States of America
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, United States of America
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
Awards
Margaret Gunnersen William Hoggan Thomson Award 2017 at the Association of Victoria Sculptors Annual Awards, Bourke St, Victoria
Meridian Fine Art Foundry Prize, at the Association of Victoria Sculptors Annual Awards, Bourke St, Victoria 2017
2ND Prize at the Birregurra Annual Art Show, Birregurra, Victoria 2017
2nd 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 2017
First Prize in the ‘Other Mediums’ section at Birregurra Art Festival 2013
‘Peoples Choice Award’ Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yarra Glen Vic 2012
First Prize in the ‘Other Mediums’ section at Birregurra Art Festival 2012
Yering Station Sculpture Prize Wine Makers Choice Award, Yarra Glen Victoria 2011
Santos Acquisitive Sculpture Award 2011, Roma on Bungil, Queensland
First Prize in the ‘Other Mediums’ section at Birregurra Art Festival 2011
First Prize in the ‘Other Mediums’ section at Birregurra Art Festival 2010
Woolangoon Art Prize, Mortlake Victoria 2010
Presidents Award at the ‘All about Birds Exhibition’ Nunawading 2009
Peoples Choice Award at the ‘All about Birds Exhibition’ Nunawading 2009
Celia Dymond Design Prize, at the Contemporary Sculpture Association Exhibition, Yarra Street Gallery Abbotsford, Melbourne 2003
Travelling Scholarship to study in Prato, Italy for a Semester (Monash University) and received 2 High Distinctions for the work completed in Italy 2002
Publications
2019 Country Style Magazine, March Edition 25 2019 P 120
2018 Birds in Art 2018’ Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Page 38
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 12th 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 9th 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, 12th 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