2024
Grand Opening
Year: 2024
Location: MERZ MOMA Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland.
Duration: Permanent installation.
2023
Amy Lees-Doherty holds sketchbooks of artworks with students working on their exhibition pieces in the background.
Big Draw: 5 Senses - postcards
Year: 2023
Location: Wangi Creative Hub, Wangi Wangi, New South Wales.
Duration: December 2023 – January 2024.
This exhibition was part of the 2023 Lake House Artist Residency and included artworks from my students, members of the community, and a number of my own artworks.
2020
9 by 5 Exhibition
Work Title: Happy Blue Bird (2020)
Year: 2020
Location: Walker Street Gallery and Art Centre, Dandenong, Australia.
Duration: 3 December 2020 – 23 January 2021
Each artist was given an identical 9 x 5 inch board as the base of their artwork.
Looking at my board, I saw a blue bird. I cut away the negatives, after a coat of primer, painted the Happy Blue Bird and their surroundings with a pallet knife.
The Meaning of Things
Work Title: Where Did You Go? (2017) (https://www.craft.org.au/meaning-of-things/wheredidyougo )
Year: 2020
Location: Online via Craft Victoria ( https://www.craft.org.au/themeaningofthings )
Duration: 31 March 2020 – 18 July 2020
“Craft Victoria’s website has become a vibrant cabinet of curiosities showcasing eclectic objects and artworks from the collections of both makers and craft enthusiasts alike. An online exhibition, Craft invite you to digitally immerse yourself in their pages and explore the wonder and tales of these objects. Find treasured masterpieces, much loved tools, found objects by unknown makers, family heirlooms, happy accidents, gifts from fellow makers, accompanied by their personal stories of emotion and meaning.
Photography Lauren Bamford. Styling Stephanie Stamatis. ”
2019
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Sightings & Listenings Graduate Exhibition
Work Title: Story in Progress (2019), Chapters Within (2019), Pooka’s Potential (2019), Recycled Armour (2019), Selkies Neckpiece (2019)
Year: 2019
Location: RMIT University, Buildings 2 and 4 (Bowen Street off La Trobe Street, Melbourne)
Duration: 6 December 2019 – 10 December 2019
Digital Catalogue: https://rmitart.com/projects/amy-lees-doherty
Radiant Pavilion 2019: 'Jewellery Alert'
Work Title: Story in Progress #1 (2019)
Year: 2019
Location: Rey Area Cabinets, RMIT University, Buildings 2 and 4 (Bowen Street off La Trobe Street, Melbourne)
Duration: 6 December 2019 – 10 December 2019
Craft Cubed 2019: Jewellery, Object, Place and Space
Work Title: Story in Progress #1 (2019)
Year: 2019
Location: Creative Spaces: Assembly Point, Port Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 6 December 2019 – 10 December 2019
This exhibition was a part of Craft Cubed 2019 with Craft Victoria.
*Please note photos of this exhibition are from during set up.
“Jewellery occupies the body
Objects carry meaning,
Jewellery tells stories,
Objects connect to places,
Jewellery communicates,
Objects define space.
This exhibition brings together emerging artists that use jewellery and silversmithing making processes to explore contemporary ideas and experiences.”
2017
Disco Pearl
Work Title: Where Did You Go? (2017), Character Study: Dwarves (2017), Stone Giant (2017)
Year: 2017
Location: Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 22 November 2017 - 01 December 2017
Shadows (2017) [Exhibition] Rey Area Cabinets, Melbourne, Australia
Work Title: Untitled [Paint in Motion] (2017)
Year: 2017
Location: Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 6 December 2019 – 10 December 2019