LEE AYTON

Lee Ayton is an Australian interdisciplinary artist working across the mediums of painting, printmaking, and still and moving images. Her work for the past thirty years has focused on vestigial snippets of the human experience within a contextualised organic and urban landscape. Taking an intuitive approach to her art making, her creative process begins with an element of chance, such as a printed image or altered photograph. Lee uses an explorative approach to materials and mark-making as she investigates spatial relationships within the landscape to arrive at a juncture between the effacements of Post-Postmodernism subjectivity, the authenticity of the subject and the exploration of contextual relationships between humans and their environment.

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Her work questions the role of the subject by revealing traces of the artist’s presence in the creative process, and challenges the idea of control by destroying the definition of the landscape, forcing the view to be experienced for its compositional and aesthetic values.

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Lee Ayton lives in Melbourne and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction (RMIT University) and is currently undertaking a Masters in Teaching Visual Arts at La Trobe University. Lee first exhibited at the Mechanics Institute in 1995 in a group exhibition titled Women 95. The first of numerous group exhibitions, including the A4 exhibition at West Space Gallery A4 Exhibition 2002 and 2004, Linden Postcard Show 2000, 2014, 2019, 2020. In 2005 she had her first solo show at Collingwood Gallery titled Bookmarks, the Fabric of Memories.

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