ABSTRACT
During 2014, Anne Ferran, Judith Wright and Lindy Lee, three senior Australian visual artists, were each accorded major solo exhibitions, with substantial accompanying publications. Anne Ferran, Judith Wright and Lindy Lee have something else in common: they all came to practise as artists after other careers, other live. Anne Ferran came to critical attention with her graduating exhibition in late 1984 at Sydney's Performance Space. The complex interweaving of an artist's project, across time, subtended Judith Wright's exhibition Desire. Judith Wright came to art practice only after a successful career as a classical dancer in the Australian Ballet, and after bearing some children. Lindy Lee, artist, is a community identity, both Australian and Chinese, and authentically both. The chapter discusses the crucial institutional contexts of the three major exhibitions featuring works by Anne Ferran, Judith Wright and Lindy Lee.
