Lindy Lee: The Making of Ouroboros

This publication marks the extraordinary achievement of Lindy Lee, one of Australia's most celebrated contemporary artists, in bringing her most ambitious public sculpture Ouroboros to life. 

On the occasion of the National Gallery of Australia's 40th anniversary, the gallery commissioned revered Chinese-Australian artist Lindy Lee to create a work of great ambition, one that would be the most significant of Lee's career and permanently installed in the gallery's forecourt: a beacon for many generations to come. Ouroboros is the result of such an invitation. 

The book traces the arc of its making, of the many threads that are woven together by many hands to make such a project possible. It seeks to offer context for how this monumental work came to be. 

The design of this book seeks to bring you closer to both the conceptual undercurrents and the material quality of Ouroboros itself. It is a guide to both mechanism and metaphor. 

National Gallery of Australia
232 × 320
Softcover, 132pp and dust jacket