Lucy Culliton is a contemporary realist painter who creates works across landscape, still life and portraiture.

To give you an idea of Lucy Culliton's popularity, in 2014 Sydney's Mosman Art Gallery held a major survey of her work which contained over 100 works. That exhibition attracted more than 20,000 visitors.

This year she was named as a finalist in all three Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW and she has been a finalist in those competitions many times before. She has received many art awards including the Portia Geach Memorial award, the Mosman Art prize and the Kedumba drawing prize.  She has exhibited in over ten solo exhibitions and her work is held in many public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of NSW.

I met Lucy Culliton at her home in Bibbenluke, a small town in south eastern NSW.  She showed me around her property and introduced me to her many animals. She also opened up her studio to my iphone!  You can see short video clips taken on the afternoon on YouTube here.

In our conversation Lucy talks about her childhood years when she would draw horses over and over again.  She talks about how her dyslexia affected her first job in graphic design and what caused her to leave that career to pursue a career as a full time painter. We also discuss how she met dealer Ray Hughes who would represent her for many years until his gallery closed its doors last year and how her animals have played a large role in her life and continue to inspire her work.

 

Upcoming shows

'The Popular Pet Show', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, 4 November 2016 to Monday 13 March 2017

Solo exhibition with Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT,  10 November 2016 to 27 November 2017

Lucy has another two solo shows scheduled for next year with King Street Gallery in Sydney (May) and with Jan Murphy Gallery in Brisbane (November).

Links

Lucy Culliton at King Street Gallery

Lucy Culliton at Beaver Galleries

Lucy Culliton at Jan Murphy Gallery

Work with the Hughes Gallery (now closed)

Aida Tomescu

Frank Auerbach

Leon Kossof

Susan Rothenberg

Lucian Freud

Chaim Soutine

Richard Diebenkorn

Margaret Preston

Fred Williams

Euan McLeod

McLean Edwards

Talking with Painters YouTube clip of Lucy Culliton