Hi, I’m NancyDee

I am a found object assemblage artist and jewellery designer in Melbourne, Australia. I create wall sculptures, 3D sculptures and brooches from metal, wood, tiles and plastic that I pick up off the streets of cities where I live or travel. 

My art is inspired by a strong interest in sustainability through repurposing and upcycling. My works have been described variously as ‘quirky’, ‘imaginative’, ‘environmentally aware’, ‘industrial’ and ‘geometric’ – and occasionally, even ‘beautiful’.

I was very excited to win first prize for sculpture at the 2025 Daffodil and Arts Festival, held at The Old Auction House in Kyneton, for my wall sculpture in a drawer called Meditation. The judge was Laurie Benson, Curator, International Art, at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Subsequently, the Beyond City Limits exhibition, organised by Melbourne and Victoria Artists (MAVA) and also held at The Old Auction House in Kyneton, received an excellent review. The reviewer’s comments about my work, Boundaries Visible and Invisible, is in the third to last paragraph.

In Australia my brooches and wall sculptures are available through Incube8r Gallery in Fitzroy and online, and at Artocracy in Brunswick. Joel Gallery in Altona also carries my smaller wall sculptures.

Current Exhibitions and Markets

Small (group show of artworks 20x20cm or smaller)
fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
27 November-18 December 2025
Opening Night Wednesday 26 November, 5-7pm

Summer Small Works Show and Prize (group show of artworks A5 or smaller)
CNG Gallery, 143 Martin Street, Brighton VIC 3186
21 November 2024 – 18 January 2026. Open Tues-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat-Sun 10am-5pm
Launch and awarding of prizes, 20 November, 6-8pm. All welcome.

All the Small Things (group show of artworks 10x10cm or smaller)
Studio Gallery, The Old Auction House, 52-56 Mollison Street, Kyneton, VIC
20 November 2025 – 8 January 2026. Open 10am-4pm daily

Selfie: More Than a Mirror (online group exhibition presented by Melbourne and Victorian Artists, Inc.)
‘Self-portraits that challenge, redefine, or completely abandon the conventions of the selfie as we know it.’ Online here
4 August-31 December 2025

Incognito (large group show of A5 artworks displayed anonymously, with sales supporting charities that enable disabled people to pursue their interest in art)
26 May-22 June 2025 at The Garden Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
Online through November 2025

A4 Art Australia (group show held by the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria as part of the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival)
Herring Island Gallery
1 March – 21 April 2025. Online here. My works are numbers 301-303.

Australian National Brooch Show (group show presented by the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria)
Fitzroy Library, 128 Moor Street, Fitzroy, Vic
26 October 2024 – 12 January 2025
Online here. My brooches are numbers 194-198.

Forthcoming Events 2025 – 2026

Sculpture Now (Contemporary Sculpture Association
members’ show)
Yarra Sculpture Gallery, 117 Vere Street, Abbotsford, VIC
Launch 2-4pm, 30 November 2025.
Open Thurs-Sun, 11am-4pm, to 14 December 2025

A3ffordable Art Fair (where sales of my works support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to become financially independent through creative enterprise, workplace training and business mentoring)
Space2b, 144 Chapel Street, St Kilda
2 December 2025 – 31 January 2026, Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-2pm

See previous solo and group exhibitions.

Recent Articles, Videos and Podcasts

‘Nancy Lane Turns Street Scraps into Streetscapes’, Market to Melrose podcast interview with Tom Rigby

‘Faces of West Melbourne: Nancy D Lane’, article on the West Melbourne Neighbourhood Portal on the City of Melbourne website

Instagram reel about my exhibition Zero Waste: Doing It Imperfectly at the Belconnen Regional Arts Centre

Youtube video interview about the creation and installation of the outdoor sculpture Termite Mound Revisited at Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park, NSW

Instagram

Follow me on Instagram at @nancydeesculptures  and  @nancydeebrooches.

I am also the facilitator for Creativity Cluster. You can view the Creativity Cluster website or follow us on Instagram at @creativitycluster.