lily tsuruko tucker
@septeverest

Lily Tsuruko Tucker (b. 2004) is a queer, mixed Japanese artist living and working on Gadigal land. As an honours 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 durational 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. In recentring intimate connections built not on advantage but time, care, and community, Tucker’s practice is a space for tangibly contemplating a personal fixation on time in an era of hyper-productivity—tracking the natural cycles of life we all move through and bear witness to through slow-making processes.

Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Major in Anthropology 
2023–2026

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

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

In Conversation with Chris Dolman
Verge Gallery
2025

Unpacking  the Schaeffer Library Archives
The Power Institute
2025