Lea Lictenberger
She completed a Master of Fine Art (2016) and a Master of Contemporary Art (2014) degrees at Sydney College of the Arts – University of Sydney Australia.
Lea works tirelessly to disseminate the research and resulting artworks in exhibitions and at conferences internationally and in Australia. In 2021 Lea was invited to speak at the ‘Royal Society of NSW’ in a talk titled: ‘Antarctica: This Ain’t No Mirage – the value of art in disseminating scientific information’ and in 2025 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW.
Lea’s research has been published in peer reviewed journals and a book, she has been invited to deliver formal lectures and over 23 papers at conferences both in Australia and around the globe.
Lea has exhibited her environmentally based artworks as an ‘artist at large’ exhibitions nationally in various group exhibitions in Australian including, the Heysen Landscape Prize, SWELL Sculpture, Wyndham Prize, The Alice Prize, North Queensland Ceramic Biennale and North Sydney Art Prize; selected for group exhibitions internationally; Ancestral Echoes: A Decade of Bio Art SVA New York and the Nautilus Oceans Exhibition at the Explorers Club New York.
From 2017 until 2023 Lea’s solo exhibitions that examines Antarctica (from her 2017 research trip), tourism and our human legacy concluded with two exhibitions at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, NSW and The Bowery Gallery Victoria respectively.
Her new project is to explore both poles begining with her return trip to Antarctica in 2023, and her residency with The Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency in 2024. Following this she used two residencies with BigCi (Jan & Nov 2024) to develop artworks that give voice to the changes she has seen.
