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’.

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

Current Exhibitions and Markets

Space2b Affordable Art Show (group show, where commissions from sales support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to become financially independent through creative enterprise, workplace training and business mentoring)
144 Chapel Street, St Kilda
3 December 2024 – 1 February 2025
Opening night: 7pm, Friday 6 December

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.

Review, Assessment, and ACTION! (group online exhibition based on the Think Resilience course produced by the Post-Carbon Institute)
What’s Next for Earth, Millenium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Stanford University, California.
Online here and here from 6 August 2024

Resilience in Major Sectors (group online exhibition based on the Think Resilience course produced by the Post-Carbon Institute) What’s Next for Earth, Millenium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Stanford University, California
Online here or here from 10 April 2024.

Eden Unearthed (outdoor sculpture exhibition)
Eden Gardens, 307 Lane Cover Road, Macquarie Park, NSW
31 October 2023 – 30 April 2024. View video (see ‘Recent Articles, Videos and Podcasts’ below). 

Forthcoming Events 2025

Re-purpose: Make Art! (group show with Creativity Cluster as part of the National Sustainability Festival)
North Melbourne Library, 66 Errol Street, ground floor display cases
1-28 February 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 (take punt from Como Landing)
Launch event Saturday 1 March 1-3pm. Open weekends and holidays during March-April 2025

Show and Tell (MAVA group exhibition)
Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne
26-30 March 2025

In All Dimensions (group show)
The Old Auction House, 52-56 Mollison Street, Kyneton, VIC
June 2025

All the Small Things (group show)
The Old Auction House, 52-56 Mollison Street, Kyneton, VIC
November/December 2025

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.