CV + BIO
Education
2016 to 2017: National Art School, Darlinghurst, Master of Fine Arts. Major drawing
2013 to 2015: National Art School, Darlinghurst, Bachelor of Fine Arts. Major printmaking
2012: TAFE Illawarra Institute, Moss Vale, Diploma of Fine Arts
2008 to 2009: TAFE, Illawarra Institute, Moss Vale, Cert IV Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2023: There was a time before you, there will be a time after you, Curatorial + Co, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
2021: The night drawings, Southern Highlands Artist Collective, Robertson
2020: The weirds, Curatorial + Co, Redfern, Sydney
2019: Forgetting, Southern Highlands Artist Collective, Robertson
2019: Wish you were here, Scratch art space, Marrickville, Sydney
2018: Come/Home, Scratch art space, Marrickville, Sydney
Group exhibitions
2022: So hot right now now now, Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo, Co-curated by Amala Groom, Kris Townsend and Alex Wisser
2021: Monochrome, Whitewall Art Projects, Berrima
2021: SELF, Southern Highlands Artist Collective, Robertson
2018: Corporal Temperature, PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, Germany
2018: Space chorus, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
2018: Architecture of experience, Ping Pong, Leipzig, Germany
2017: National Art School Post Graduate exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2017: PROXIMITY, Articulate Project Space, Leichardt, Sydney
2016: Print and Paper, Factory 49, Marrickville, Sydney
2015: Graduate exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2015: Under the lace arches, Big fat smile gallery, Wollongong
2015: Ground cover, Library Stairwell gallery, National Art School, Sydney
Grants, awards, publications and interviews
2023: First prize, BOCCA Art Award (March)
2023: Highly Commended Harden Art Prize (May)
2022: Critics Choice by Monte, Megan. Art Collector (July-September 2022)
2021: Feature, Highlife magazine
2021: Highly commended, Waterbrook Drawing prize
2021: Highly commended, Wingecarribee Landscape prize
2020: Feature, Art Edit magazine
2018: First prize, Wingecarribee Drawing Prize
Works held in National Art school archives and private collections.
2016 to 2017: National Art School, Darlinghurst, Master of Fine Arts. Major drawing
2013 to 2015: National Art School, Darlinghurst, Bachelor of Fine Arts. Major printmaking
2012: TAFE Illawarra Institute, Moss Vale, Diploma of Fine Arts
2008 to 2009: TAFE, Illawarra Institute, Moss Vale, Cert IV Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2023: There was a time before you, there will be a time after you, Curatorial + Co, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
2021: The night drawings, Southern Highlands Artist Collective, Robertson
2020: The weirds, Curatorial + Co, Redfern, Sydney
2019: Forgetting, Southern Highlands Artist Collective, Robertson
2019: Wish you were here, Scratch art space, Marrickville, Sydney
2018: Come/Home, Scratch art space, Marrickville, Sydney
Group exhibitions
2022: So hot right now now now, Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo, Co-curated by Amala Groom, Kris Townsend and Alex Wisser
2021: Monochrome, Whitewall Art Projects, Berrima
2021: SELF, Southern Highlands Artist Collective, Robertson
2018: Corporal Temperature, PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, Germany
2018: Space chorus, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
2018: Architecture of experience, Ping Pong, Leipzig, Germany
2017: National Art School Post Graduate exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2017: PROXIMITY, Articulate Project Space, Leichardt, Sydney
2016: Print and Paper, Factory 49, Marrickville, Sydney
2015: Graduate exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2015: Under the lace arches, Big fat smile gallery, Wollongong
2015: Ground cover, Library Stairwell gallery, National Art School, Sydney
Grants, awards, publications and interviews
2023: First prize, BOCCA Art Award (March)
2023: Highly Commended Harden Art Prize (May)
2022: Critics Choice by Monte, Megan. Art Collector (July-September 2022)
2021: Feature, Highlife magazine
2021: Highly commended, Waterbrook Drawing prize
2021: Highly commended, Wingecarribee Landscape prize
2020: Feature, Art Edit magazine
2018: First prize, Wingecarribee Drawing Prize
Works held in National Art school archives and private collections.
Lily Cummins is a tactile artist who lives and works on Gundungurra land in Mittagong, NSW. She graduated from the National Art School in 2017 with a Masters in Drawing and her practice explores both her-self, her memories and the emotive bonds and attachments people develop to place.
Lily’s work is highly process driven; conversations are created between repeated forms and structures and investigative mark making explores the disintegration of memory and the inevitable passage of time, exclusively mining her own experience of remembrance, absence, and loss.
Cummins Won the BOCCA Art Award (March 2023), was recently profiled in Critics Choice by Monte, Megan. Art Collector (July-September 2022); received Highly Commended awards in the Harden Art Prize (May 2023); and the Waterbrook Drawing Prize (2021).
She graduated from the National Art School in 2017 with a Masters of Fine Arts, and has had several solo exhibitions and been included in many group shows, both in Australia and overseas. In 2018 she won the Wingecarribee Drawing prize and travelled to Leipzig, Germany, for three months to join the Pilotenkueche International Art Program.
Her work is held in The National Art School archives and various private collections.
Lily’s work is highly process driven; conversations are created between repeated forms and structures and investigative mark making explores the disintegration of memory and the inevitable passage of time, exclusively mining her own experience of remembrance, absence, and loss.
Cummins Won the BOCCA Art Award (March 2023), was recently profiled in Critics Choice by Monte, Megan. Art Collector (July-September 2022); received Highly Commended awards in the Harden Art Prize (May 2023); and the Waterbrook Drawing Prize (2021).
She graduated from the National Art School in 2017 with a Masters of Fine Arts, and has had several solo exhibitions and been included in many group shows, both in Australia and overseas. In 2018 she won the Wingecarribee Drawing prize and travelled to Leipzig, Germany, for three months to join the Pilotenkueche International Art Program.
Her work is held in The National Art School archives and various private collections.
Photo courtesy: Natalie Hunfalvay