About
the Artist
Born
in England,
1949, a baby boomer, I did as my parents bid, by getting a safe career
and forgo
my desire to be an artist. I didn’t give up my painting and drawing
though and
continued on and off throughout my years.
I
followed my mother to Australia
in 1976 where I eventually got my chance to fulfill my dreams and with
my
husband’s support studied painting at the University of Ballarat,
in 1993, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and great joy in 1996 with
a whole new perspective on art
and the art world.
"I always
loved my recreational activities but now I have studied art in the form
of
painting, I have a personal way to express myself that I only dreamed
of
before."
"I
discovered a unique style to develop my
expression, taken from the surrealist automatic drawing technique of
making
marks on the support and communicating with what is found. The marks
just about
talk back to me and let me know what I should do next and the ideas
just
grow."
I
had a bit of a rough ride in my youth and young adult
years falling prey to the sixties and becoming schizophrenic by my
early
twenties, losing about ten years to sheer hell but through it all I
have found
my Zen, thanks to Jesus Christ for the journey and the atonement.
I
now have a happy home life with my husband Chai and my mum
who lives nearby and my two dogs that I refer to as the grandchildren
we will
never have and who accompany me in my studio sitting on their own couch
as you
can see.
I’m
not much with words and prefer visuals so I hope you
can enjoy my artworks as much as I have enjoyed creating them."
Awards
2008
Commonwealth scholarship
Exhibitions
2008
Fresh Abstractions
Mad Gallery, Lancefield, Victoria, Australia
2007
Retrospective
Mad Gallery, Lancefield, Victoria, Australia
2006
Online Gallery
www.dawnlim.com
2005
"Soul Journeys",
Grainery Lane Theatre, Ballarat
2003
"Linear Works"
Grainery Lane Theatre, Ballarat
2001
The Front,
Doveton St, Ballarat.
2000
The Uniting
Church
Dawson St, Ballarat.
1999
The Front,
Doveton St, Ballarat.
1998
Anachronism,
Sturt St, Ballarat.
1997
"Roar"
Gallery, Melbourne.
Members Exhibition.
Icons, Angels and free spirits
Butter Factory, Clunes.
1996
International
Women's Day
Visual and Performing Arts Exhibition.
1995
Final year
student exhibition
University of Ballarat.
"Unique Advent" Painting and
drawing
Student exhibition.
"Art in Public Places"
Sponsored by the Ararat Fine Art
Gallery.
"Flinders Ranges and Beyond"
Student exhibition Founders Hall,
University of Ballarat.
George Patton Gallery
University of
Melbourne.
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