artist CV
lily tsuruko tucker
@septeverest
@septeverest
Lily Tsuruko Tucker (b. 2004) is an artist living and working on Gadigal land. As a graduating third-year student at SCA, their practice draws upon the themes of spectatorship, personal superstitions, and commitment, translating the particular images from their mind into sculptural form. Their devotion to the labour of carving premises the affective relationships built between Tucker and their works, cradling each piece fondly with great hesitance to let them live alone.
Experimenting in wood, rosin, and metal, Tucker uses their suite of enigmas to mediate intimate dialogues between the microscopic and the universal. Their studies in anthropology have influenced their growing interest in relational ontologies and feedback loops, concerned with the ways human and nonhuman actors all rely upon each other to create shared meanings.
Experimenting in wood, rosin, and metal, Tucker uses their suite of enigmas to mediate intimate dialogues between the microscopic and the universal. Their studies in anthropology have influenced their growing interest in relational ontologies and feedback loops, concerned with the ways human and nonhuman actors all rely upon each other to create shared meanings.
education
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Major in Anthropology
2023–2026
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Major in Anthropology
2023–2026
group shows
SCA New Contemporaries, SCA Gallery, 2025
We Can Work It Out, Sydney Street Gallery, 2025
All of ; entire, Backspace Gallery, 2025
USU Creative Awards Finalists, Verge Gallery, 2025
Ephemera – Unpacking the Schaeffer Library Archives, Curator, The Power Institute, 2025
Love, Death, and What Remains, Backspace Gallery, 2025
Forging Futures, Backspace Gallery, 2025
Monument, Backspace Gallery, 2025
The Internal, Goodspace Gallery, 2024
USU Creative Awards Finalists, Verge Gallery, 2024
Yours Sincerely, Goodspace Gallery, 2024
News from Home, Goodspace Gallery, 2024
House of Unicorns, Redbase Gallery, 2024
Love Deluxe, Backspace Gallery, 2024
USU Creative Awards Finalists, Verge Gallery, 2023
An Anthology of Video and Time-Based Works, Backspace Gallery, 2023
Verge Projects, Manning Bar, 2023
We Can Work It Out, Sydney Street Gallery, 2025
All of ; entire, Backspace Gallery, 2025
USU Creative Awards Finalists, Verge Gallery, 2025
Ephemera – Unpacking the Schaeffer Library Archives, Curator, The Power Institute, 2025
Love, Death, and What Remains, Backspace Gallery, 2025
Forging Futures, Backspace Gallery, 2025
Monument, Backspace Gallery, 2025
The Internal, Goodspace Gallery, 2024
USU Creative Awards Finalists, Verge Gallery, 2024
Yours Sincerely, Goodspace Gallery, 2024
News from Home, Goodspace Gallery, 2024
House of Unicorns, Redbase Gallery, 2024
Love Deluxe, Backspace Gallery, 2024
USU Creative Awards Finalists, Verge Gallery, 2023
An Anthology of Video and Time-Based Works, Backspace Gallery, 2023
Verge Projects, Manning Bar, 2023
publications
by Lige Qiao
Mass Memo Review
2025
Ephemera – A Revaluation of Archivism
by Lily Tucker
GLAM at Sydney
2025
Students’ ways of seeing
by Victoria Gillespie
Honi Soit
2024
A declaration of love for SCASS’s love Deluxe
by Hannah Vlies Lawrence,
Honi Soit
2024
by Lily Tucker
GLAM at Sydney
2025
Students’ ways of seeing
by Victoria Gillespie
Honi Soit
2024
A declaration of love for SCASS’s love Deluxe
by Hannah Vlies Lawrence,
Honi Soit
2024
prizes
guest seminars
Unpacking the Schaeffer Library Archives
The Power Institute
2025
The Power Institute
2025