Lucy O'Doherty
Lucy O'Doherty works with oil paint and soft pastels to create dreamlike interpretations of landscapes, isolated dwellings and vacant interiors.
Lucy O'Doherty is a contemporary artist and painter. Born in 1986, she lives in Sydney, Australia.
Lucy produces images so insistently lovely that they begin to feel unsettling. Whether she is depicting a heavily manicured urban backyard or an ‘untouched’ landscape, her treatment is equally painstaking. The composition is carefully worked out, gradations of colour smooth, paint strokes deliberately few. Her palette is one of ice-cream pastel pinks, blues and creams. Edges tend to be blurred, as if the images are being viewed through a 1980s soap opera lens or eyes hazy with tears. Without exception, the scenes are empty of people and animals. Beaches gape. Diners are clientless. Swimming pools lie abandoned, often drained.
Lucy's works are whimsical and often difficult to interpret. What initially appears to be the trunk of a palm tree might in fact be the stand for an oversized umbrella. A form looming beyond a flamboyantly shaped pool might be an outdoor lamp, or a neighbour’s heater, or something else altogether.
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Forest on fire, 2022View more details
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Hazy Loch, 2022View more details
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Iceberg lying on the sea, 2022View more details
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Melting ice mass, 2022View more details
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New lakes and craters formed by thawing permafrost, 2022View more details
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Sleeping Giants, 2022View more details
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Sun and Ice, 2022View more details
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Wind Whipped Landscape, 2022View more details
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Empty pool shadows and discarded lifebuoy, 2021View more details
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Illuminated tables and red booths in vacant restaurant, 2021View more details
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Pink haze, 2021View more details
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The moon searching for water, 2021View more details
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Chlorine Blues, 2020View more details
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Piopiotahi/Milford Sound reflection, 2019View more details
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A farewell on the slow ferry , 2018View more details
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Blue Room, 2018View more details
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Booth reflection, 2018View more details
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Calanques shack in light, 2018View more details
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Future Dwelling, 2018View more details
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Gateway to a veiled sun, 2018View more details
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Last Drinks, 2018View more details
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Whatever happened to the old TV shows, 2018View more details
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Summer Selection
25 Jan - 11 Feb 2023Jhana Millers reopens for 2023 with a selection of works by gallery artists.Read more -
Lucy O'Doherty, Melting Landscapes
24 Mar - 23 Apr 2022Lucy O'Doherty, Melting Landscapes. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Auckland Art Fair, The Right Place?
24 - 28 Feb 2021Auckland Art Fair, The Right Place?. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Lucy O’Doherty and Harry Culy, Blue Room
13 - 27 Oct 2018Lucy O'Doherty and Harry Culy, Blue Room. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more -
The Gates, Inaugural Exhibition
7 Jul - 4 Aug 2018Group Exhibition, The Gates. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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What Mambo artist Reg Mombassa was doing in Bombo
Desiree Savage, Illawarra Mercury , November 3, 2022 -
Artist Spotlight: Lucy O’Doherty
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With a focus on “extreme softness”, artist Lucy O’Doherty builds a hazy and eerie dreamland
Olivia Hingley, It's nice that, August 8, 2022 -
For Lucy O'Doherty, The Climate Emergency Is Close To Home
COURTNEY THOMPSON, In style - Australia, January 1, 2022 -
DESTINATION ART: THE SURRY HILLS WAY
Jo Higgins, Art Edit , January 1, 2021 -
HAZELHURST ARTS CENTRE COMMISSONS SIX CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
DAVID KARY, Sydney Arts Guide , September 5, 2020 -
INTERVIEW WITH AN ARTIST – LUCY O’DOHERTY
Wilamina Russo, 2ser, April 9, 2020 -
Art arises from the bushfire ashes
David Mills, The daily telegraph , February 29, 2020 -
Lucy O’Doherty: Are we safe here?
Cultural Flanerie, June 9, 2019 -
Mystery and the mundane: chatting with alluring Sydney painter, Lucy O’Doherty
Nick Stillman, Happy Magazine, July 13, 2018 -
The up-and-coming Sydney art collective exhibition you need to attend
ANNA DELPRAT, Vogue Living, January 22, 2018 -
Lucy O’Doherty in Paris
Lucy O'Doherty, Artist Profile , December 1, 2017 -
Lee Mathews, Woman #14
Lee Mathews, Lee Mathews Website, November 1, 2017 -
Shelter By Lucy O'Doherty
Elle Murrell, The Design Files, June 20, 2017 -
Paris bound – Lucy O’Doherty awarded 2016 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
Art Almanac, September 22, 2016 -
Domesticity
K, Think Positive , October 11, 2015