Lindy Sale was the 2018 winner of the Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award. She has been the featured painter at the Brisbane Grammar School Art Show and has been highly commended in award exhibitions including the Clayton Utz Art Prize, the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize and the Churchie Emerging Art Prize. Lindy Sale lives and works in Brisbane and has been a practising artist for over twenty years, exhibiting in numerous group and solo shows. She paints mainly in acrylic and oil on linen, canvas or paper, as well as making three-dimensional pieces in plaster. The key themes of her work are the beauty, mystery and strangeness of nature, and the effects and marks of human settlement on the natural environment.

Bachelor of Visual Arts in Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane

Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning, University of Queensland, Brisbane

2018         Shifting Worlds, Graydon Gallery, New Farm, Brisbane

2012         We are as clouds, Anita Traverso AT_Salon, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria

2011         Recent Works, Three White Rooms, Paddington, Brisbane.

2008        Lush Harvest, Gallery Tokonoma, Mudgeeraba, Gold Coast, Queensland

2007        Ithaca Creek Two, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane                          

2004        Ithaca Creek, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane

1998         Subdivision, Smith + Stoneley on Stratton, Newstead, Brisbane

1995         Surface Paradise, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane

2018        

Artists to Watch, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane

Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane

Scape to Scape, Lethbridge Gallery, Bulimba, Brisbane

2017        

Clayton layton Utz Art Award, BrisbaneUtz Art Award, Brisbane

2016        

Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adelaide, S.A.

2013        

Illuminate, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane

2011         

Belle Arti, Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Melbourne

2010        

The Stanthorpe Art Festival exhibition, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland

2009       

Seeds Scattered Far and Wide, Niche Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Doggett Street Studio Winter Exhibition, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane

The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide,South Australia and at the National Archives, Canberra, A.C.T.

The Prometheus Art Award, Gold Coast, Queensland

2006       

The Warwick Art Prize 2006, Warwick, Queensland

Off the Wall, Art Sydney 06, Royal Hall of Industries and Hordern Pavilion, Sydney

2005       

Tango, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane (as featured painter)

2002       

The Warwick Art Prize 2002, Warwick, Queensland

2000       

Close to the Heart, Doggett Street Studio, Newstead, Brisbane

Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition 2000, Churchie, Brisbane

1999        

Finale, Smith + Stoneley on Stratton, Newstead, Brisbane

Churchie Exhibition of Emerging Art, Churchie, Brisbane

1998        

Gold, frankincense and myrrh, Smith + Stoneley on Stratton, Newstead, Brisbane

1995        

Artistcare Drawing Prize exhibition, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane

Combust, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane

1994        

Artistcare Drawing Prize exhibition, Queensland College of Art Gallery and Magazine Space, Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane

Women's History, Magazine Space, Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane

The Greatest Show on Earth, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1993        

Griffith University Warana Exhibition, Warana Festival Gallery, Brisbane

2018        

Lethbridge 10 000 Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane - winner

2017        

Lethbridge 10 000 Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane - finalist

Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane - highly commended

2016        

Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane - finalist

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adelaide, S.A. - finalist

2010        

The Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland - finalist

2009       

The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Exhibition, Adelaide, S.A. - highly commended

The Prometheus Art Award Exhibition, Gold Coast, Queensland - finalist

2007       

Roma Art Prize, Roma, Queensland – winner open award

2006       

The Warwick Art Prize 2006, Warwick, Queensland - commendation

Off the Wall, Art Sydney 06, Royal Hall of Industries and Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, NSW - finalist

2003       

Aspects Art Exhibition, Goondiwindi, Queensland - highly commended            

2002       

Roma Art Prize, Roma, Queensland - winner open award

The Warwick Art Prize Year 2002 Exhibition, Warwick, Queensland - finalist

2000       

Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition 2000, Brisbane - finalist                            

1999        

Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition 1999, Brisbane - winner of over 35 category                         

1995        

Artistcare Drawing Prize, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane - winner