Best Bird in Show

2023 oil on canvas 81.5x81.5cm

Lucy Culliton at The Sydney Royal Easter Show

Photo Courtesy Riste Andrievski, 2022

Windmill Hole, Late afternoon, Looking East, Front paddock

2020 oil on canvas 137x137cm

Lucy painting, Cambalong Creek, NSW

Photo courtesy Charlie Maslin, 2022

Pigeon II

2022 gouache on paper 19x17.5cm

Lucy Culliton in studio, Bibbenluke

Photo courtesy Robert Linnegar, 2017

Installation shot 2022 'Cambalong Creek'

Image Courtesy Michael Bradfield

Hunter Class

2022 graphite on paper 19x17.5cm

Henry II

2022 oil on board 92x107cm

Lucy painting en plein air for the 'Painted River Project: Blue Mountains Rare Upland Swamps'

Photo courtesy Painted River Project, 2023

Self Portrait with Cock III

2003 oil on canvas 75x60cm

Bottles

2020 oil on canvas 110x95cm

Lucy Culliton Studio Shot

Photo Courtesy Robert Linnegar, 2021

Lucy Culliton

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Lucy Culliton (born 1966) is one of Australia’s most well-recognised contemporary landscape and still life artists. Lucy attended the National Art School and has been successfully exhibiting for over 25 years.

Lucy’s solo exhibition in March 2024, The Easter Show, is a reflection of her time spent as the official artist in residence at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, since 2022. Lucy criss-crosses the grounds of The Show, observing and revelling in the beauty of the festival. The Easter Show is a celebration of drawings, gouaches and oils capturing the essence of The Show as only Lucy’s observational acuity can gather.

Her inaugural solo exhibition with King Street Gallery in 2017, Residents of Bibbenluke Lodge, featured a series of portraits of her ‘beloved animals and their unique personalities’. (John McDonald, 2017 Catalogue Essay). The subject matter of her 2019 solo exhibition Bibbenluke Botanicals, like Residents of Bibbenluke, is a ‘reflection of her tendency to paint things in which she has a deep personal affection’ (Why paint a vase of flowers, Anne Ryan, 2019, Catalogue Essay).

Lucy’s 2022 solo exhibition Cambalong Creek, was the result of three years of painting the creek on Gunningrah, setting up her easel in all weathers. ‘She worked in roaring, dusty winds while the drought wore on. When it broke, she worked knee-high in fresh grass. In this exhibition Lucy pays homage to Cambalong Creek in all its seasons and rugged beauty’ (Elizabeth Fortescue, 2022, Catalogue Essay).

Lucy’s inclusion in group exhibitions both across Australia and internationally reveals the extent of the public acclaim surrounding her work. She has been selected multiple times for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as the Mosman Art Prize, Salon des Refusés, Portia Geach Memorial Award, and the Dobell and Kedumba Drawing Awards.

In 2000, Culliton won the Mosman Art Prize and in 2004, the Kedumba Drawing Award. In 20216 Culliton is the only female Australian artist to be a finalist in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. 2024 Lucy won the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award.

Lucy’s work can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Parliament House, the National Gallery of Australia, Macquarie Bank, New England Regional Art Gallery and Tamworth Regional Gallery.

King Street has represented Lucy since 2017. She lives and works at her studio in Bibbenluke, Monaro NSW.