Lucas Ihlein and Ian Milliss, The Yeomans Project, Field Trip to The Oaks, Camden, May 2014, photograph by Caren FloranceLucas Ihlein is an artist. His work connects socially engaged art, agriculture and environmental stewardship. He lives in Wollongong, on Wadi Wadi and Dharawal Country.
Contact: lucas[at]lucazoid[dot]com
Click here for selected projects by Lucas Ihlein.
Lucas is a founding member of artists’ collectives SquatSpace, Big Fag Press, Teaching and Learning Cinema (TLC), and Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation (KSCA).
Lucas’ recent projects include Plastic-free Biennale with Kim Williams, as part of NIRIN 2020 Biennale of Sydney; Baking Earth: Soil and the Carbon Economy (with Allan Yeomans); and Sugar vs the Reef? + Watershed Land Art Project (both with Kim Williams and many community collaborators).
Significant Exhibitions include NIRIN 2020 Biennale of Sydney (with Kim Williams); EXTRA! EXTRA! with the Rizzeria and collaborators at Art Gallery of NSW (2019); Shapes of Knowledge (curated by Hannah Mathews, MUMA (2019); Sugar vs the Reef? (with Kim Williams), Artspace Mackay; Diagrammatic (curated by Jasmin Stephens), Deakin University Gallery (2018); Walking Upstream: Waterways of the Illawarra (with Brogan Bunt and Kim Williams), Wollongong Art Gallery (2017-18); Sea Pearl White Cloud (alongside Trevor Yeung), Observation Society, Guangzhou and 4A Centre for Australian Asian Art, Sydney (2016); The Yeomans Project (with Ian Milliss), Art Gallery of New South Wales (2013-14); Green Bans Art Walk, The Cross Arts Projects & Big Fag Press, Sydney (2011); In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2010); There Goes the Neighbourhood, Performance Space, Sydney (2009); The Bon Scott Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth (2008); and Bilateral, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide (2002).
From 2015-17 Ihlein was an Australia Council for the Arts Fellow in Emerging and Experimental Arts.
From 2016-19 he was an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (ARC DECRA) Fellow, based at University of Wollongong, Australia.
In 2010 Lucas completed a practice-based research PhD at Deakin University entitled “Framing Everyday Experience: Blogging as Art”, which won the Alfred Deakin Medal for best Doctoral Thesis in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Lucas works at University of Wollongong as Associate Professor of Creative Arts, in the School of the Arts, English and Media.
More info on Lucas Ihlein:
Contact: lucas[at]lucazoid[dot]com
Lucas Ihlein's Bilateral Blog has been online since 2003.
Links to writing by Lucas.
Lucas’ scholarly publications at academia.edu.
Selected interviews with Lucas Ihlein:
Fiona Vuibeqa in conversation with Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, Artspace Mackay, November 2019.
Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland, interview with Latitudes, in Artlink, 2016.
Interview with Lucas Ihlein, from Sandra Bridie: The artist as composite, Examples of a hybrid practice, 2008.
Interview with Lucas Ihlein by Marg Roberts as part of her PhD Research, 2006.
Interview with Lucas Ihlein, by Kirsten Lowe, on ChaosGeneration blog, 2004.