Location, location, location - Art in Public Spaces with Lincoln Austin - Chinchilla

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Lincoln Austin is known for their sculptural and multi-media works employing geometry, optics and scale to playfully explore the blurred boundaries between Ideal and Physical realities.  Austin employs art to investigate ideas circulating around notions of perception and preconception.  Specifically, how perception and situation effect understanding, and how interaction might alter perception.  This analysis has prompted them to make art that encourages the movement of the viewer to activate optical potential within their work.

Lincoln Austin has held solo exhibitions in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, including at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2009), Caloundra Regional Gallery (2016) and Bundaberg Regional Gallery (2018). Their work has been featured in group exhibitions including ‘Open, Closed’ Queensland University of Technology Art Museum (2012) and ‘Light Play’ University of Queensland Art Museum (2015).  Their work has been included in group exhibitions in Italy, Switzerland, the UK and Japan.

Austin’s work is held in many public collections including QAGoMA, the UQ Art Museum, QUT Art Museum, and Artbank. Austin has completed 21 Public Art commissions around SE Queensland since 2005. In 2015, Austin undertook an Australia Council residency at the British School at Rome. In 2017 and 2020 Austin received project funding through Arts Queensland to develop new work.  In 2021 Austin presented a 20-year survey exhibition ‘The space between us’ at Ipswich Art Gallery. In 2023 they won the ‘Art for life” category of QFAA’s Queensland Regional Art Awards. In 2024 Austin returned to the British school at Rome for a 1 month residency, supported by the RADF, and received project funding through Arts Queensland to develop an exhibition for Rockhampton Museum of Art in 2025.

Lincoln Austin is represented commercially by Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane.