Lyndy Delian

Lyndy Delian is a Wauthaurong woman from Western Victoria. As a successful mid -career textiles and printmaking artist, Lyndy was one of the first Indigenous artists to have a residency at Canberra Glassworks in 2008 with outstanding results. Her glass skills have developed through artist’s residencies in 2009 – 2014 in Australia and the USA, with her work shown in numerous exhibitions. Lyndy was ACT NAIDOC Artist of the Year in 2011. She is co-founder of the ACT Indigenous Textiles and Glass Artists Group (ITAG) with Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello in 2003, and co-founder of the Honouring Cultures Initiative in 2012 after she represented Australia as a First Nations visual artist at the Festival of Pacific Arts in the Solomon Islands. Her skills with multilayered separations in silk screen printing led her to develop her unique multilayered sand carving and engraving style in glass. Her work is held in various public and private collections, including National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Australia, Corning Museum of Glass USA, Canberra Museum and Gallery, the Canberra Institute of Technology, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, National Museum of Palau and National Art Gallery of the Solomon Islands.