Lizzy Rich is an emerging contemporary artist who lives and works on Bunurong country, Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria.

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Predominantly working with acrylic on board and canvas, Rich also draws on her ceramic and sculptural training to inform her work. Utilising the tension between abstraction and figurative subject matter, Rich attempts to synthesise her unique perspectives on experience and convey something that the viewer can connect with. 

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Messy, energetic gestures and scratching’s are laden with darker undertones,

where materiality and expression converge to tell an abstract story of memory and imagination.

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‘I employ an intuitive approach to painting, adding layers, covering and revealing little stories within a larger narrative. Using mark making as a language; colour, texture and surface become a vocabulary of transient felt states. I allow the brush work and composition to direct where the painting develops and where it breathes’, explains Rich.

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EDUCATION

2015

Bachelor of Fine Arts  (Object Based Practice), RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria

2012

Advanced Diploma of Engineering Technology  (Jewellery), NMIT

2007

Diploma of Visual Arts (Photography), RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Tipping Points, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan, Gippsland

2022

ACB Selects, National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP), online exhibition

2021

ember + vessel, Neon Parlour Gallery, Thornbury, Melbourne

2016

The Emotional Life of Objects, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

2015

Wondernamel, First Site Gallery, RMIT Melbourne

To Render, Boom Gallery, Geelong

Back to Back, First Site Gallery, RMIT Graduate exhibition

2014

Around the Table, First Site Gallery, RMIT Melbourne

2012

Kaleidoscope, Graduation Show NMIT, Northcote Town Hall