BIO
Lily Platts (she/her) is a visual artist living and working in Melbourne. Lily explores themes of the everyday and is drawn to the unconventional subject matter of the world around her. In 2024 Platts has exhibited two solo shows. In 2023 she was a finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize and the Grace Cossington Art Prize. In 2019 she graduated with Honors from RMIT, and from ANU in 2017.
CV
2024: Exhibition at No Vacancy Gallery
2024: Exhibition at Sol Gallery
2024: Finalist Grace Cossington Smith Art Prize
2023: Finalist National Emerging Art Prize Ceramics
2023: “From a Distance” Red Gallery
2023:Residency, Padula Italy
2023:From a Distance, Red Gallery
2023: Stuff and Things, Michael Reid Murrurundi
2023: Untitled Group Show, Corner Store Gallery
2022: Solo show, Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2022: 'Free and For sale' Gaffa Gallery
2022: Re Loved, Village Gallery Sutton
2022: Coast to Coast, Saint Cloche
2022: Still Life, Grainger Gallery
2021: 'Lockdown Studies' Village Gallery Suttom
2021: ‘The Everyday’, Village Gallery Sutton
2021: 'Greyscale', Brunswick Street Gallery
2020: Residency at the Shark Island Institute
2020: Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
2019: 2019 RMIT Honours Grad Show
2019: Graduated Bachelor of Visual Art Honours, RMIT, Melbourne
2018: Solo exhibition 'Everyday Nature' TPR Gallery
2018: 'Points of View, artists in the landscape', TPR Gallery
2017: 2017 ANU SOAD Grad Show
2017: Work purchased by the ANU collection.
2017: Graduated from the Australian National University
2017: Attended the Alberta College of Art and Design, in Calgary, Canada
2017: Attended Pilchuck Glass School in Washington, USA
2016: ‘Refraction’, The Front Gallery, Canberra
2015: Red Frogs Charity Auction, Canberra
2013: Clancy Prize, Sydney
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Publications
Interview with Sean Davey, 2018
Inside Out Magazine, 2022
2014: https://issuu.com/monaropost/docs/mp020414b/8
2018: http://www.thephotographyroom.com.au/lily-platts
2018: Interview with Sean Davey for TPR Gallery (click on PDF below)
2020:https://citynews.com.au/2020/lilys-garden-chair-wins-her-a-shared-art-scholarship/
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