Kerry Lennon
Melbourne based artist
Title: My Muse (2024)
Oil on canvas
I work in oil painting, collage, and drawing. I explore how everyday items and conversations, often overlooked, serve as markers of time and change. In 2025, my practice interrogates the unnoticed yet intimate relationship between the individual and domestic spaces. By elevating mundane items, and daily activities, I invite the viewer to reconsider their evolving significance and often repetitive role in our lives.
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—BREAKING NEWS-FEBRUARY 2025—
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Flanagan Art Prize in the Emerging Artist category! With entries from artists across Australia, it’s an honour to have my work included among the 98 shortlisted pieces.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 21–23 March 2025 at St Patrick’s College Ballarat, with winners announced at the gala opening on 21 March. This year’s guest judge, Dr Vincent Alessi, Director of Linden New Art, will select the winning works, including the $10,000 acquisitive prize.
I can’t tell you what this acknowledgement means to me—to kickstart my professional artist journey with this opportunity to network and receive public feedback on my work!
laundry study: The beginning
This the start of a planned body of work toward the year 2030 to see how bringing in the laundry and other domestic rituals might evolve by 2030.
Title: Laundry Again (2023)
Mixed media on Laundry box
Using her laundry room as her muse, Lennon has experimented with repetition to challenge the viewer’s perception of overlooked items. By focusing on the unnoticed—such as laundry doors and sinks and how we often disregard them —She invites viewers to look twice and recognize these ordinary objects as art. Through this site-specific installation, Lennon transforms the familiar into a subject of contemplation, encouraging a deeper interaction with the everyday. This body of work reflects her ongoing interest in elevating the routine; its repetition to highlight the quiet yet persistent role in our daily lives.
Alchemy of the found object
Title: Build it and they will come (2021)
Materials used. Medical disposable gloves,viewfinder, transformer, and other collected hard rubbish finds found throughout 2020.
Winner of the City of Melbourne Creative Spaces Grant 2021,Lennon facilitated, curated, and exhibited in Trash Magic, The Alchemy of the Found Object, a group show of 12 artists. The exhibition focused on transforming everyday discarded, found, or single-use items through diverse artistic practices. Each Artist repurposed and reimagined these objects, giving them new life and meaning. The result was a series of 12 abstract, stand-alone windowbox installations displayed in a public subway beneath Flinders Street Station, inviting the public to engage with art in an unexpected urban space.
About the artwork
Bower Birds are renowned for their unique courtship behaviour, building a structure and decorating it with sticks and brightly coloured blue objects that they find in an attempt to attract a mate. For this artist, 2020 saw her enter her blue period when dating courtships had moved online and the lockdown(s) of 2020 took away her natural dating habit. Lennon wondered if her artwork might attract her soulmate, so she could live happily ever after. He's out there somewhere... best seen if you look through the viewfinder.
The shit people Say
365 Day Drawing Project Installation 2012
Wetlands Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne
This project spanned 365 days, during which Lennon created a daily drawing inspired by overheard conversations in her surroundings. The culmination of this effort was an installation featuring all 365 drawings, inviting the audience to duck and dive through the pieces. This interactive experience mirrors the randomness of overhearing snippets of conversation out of context, encouraging viewers to discover drawings unexpectedly. Lennon is particularly interested in how we visually narrate our stories to others, exploring the interplay between spoken words and visual expression. This exploration included documenting colloquial phrases and examining the influence of popular culture on our storytelling at the time.