Acclaimed Australian artist, Lindy Lee, explores her Chinese roots through the philosophies of Taoism, characterized by the awareness of man close relationship with nature and the universe.  Employing the ideas of chance and spontaneity she creates a galaxy of imagery that emanates philosophical meditations on nature.  Her inspiration comes from Tao Buddhism but her practice is highly contemporary.  With the traditional ideas of splashing ink on paper she throws molten bronze to create a kaleidoscope of objects somehow both figurative and abstract.  The metal spats form a balance mirrored by their imperfections seemingly pushing and pulling each other within their composition.  In this exhibition, Flowers Fall,  Lee contemplates the Chinese dragon and fire with both paper and metal works in the embodiment of cosmic and elemental forces.

The fire of the dragon is the Treasure of Infinite Potentiality it is also the fire of being.  In my latest works, I use fire to invoke something direct and elemental about our existence.  We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as outside the laws of nature because to a certain degree we can control her laws to our advantage but in reality we can never step outside.  The laws are fabric to what we are.

-Lindy Lee

Lindy Lee has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally in important museum exhibitions such as the 1985 Australian Perspecta, the 1986 Sydney Biennale, Prospect �93 (Germany), Edge to Edge: Contemporary Australian Painting to Japan (1988), Transcultural Painting (1994) and, Photography is Dead, Long Live Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1996).  In 2003, a major solo exhibition, Lindy Lee: Birth & Death, was presented at Artspace, Sydney.  Lee is a founding member of Gallery 4A in Sydney Chinatown.  She is a former board member of Artspace and the Australian Centre of Photography, former president of the Asian Australian Artists Association and former deputy chair of the Visual Arts and Craft Fund, Australia Council.  Lindy Lee is currently a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.  Her work is held in many important collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia.  This is her first exhibition in Hong Kong.