Three Views of Emptiness: Buddhism and the art of Tim Johnson, Lindy Lee and Peter Tyndall

About the exhibition
In the context of steadily increasing Western interest in Buddhism, curator Linda Michael selected three prominent artists whose approaches to art—and art’s relation to being—had sympathies with Buddhist ideas. Artists Tim Johnson, Lindy Lee and Peter Tyndall engaged with appropriation, postmodernism and conceptual art practices. Through the liberating framework of ‘emptiness’ or sunyata, the exhibition asked viewers to ‘consider the relationship of art to a non-phenomenal, non-objective world in which everything is interconnected and impermanent’.

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