Staff Profiles

Chelsea Lehmann currently lives and works in Sydney. After completing her Bachelor of Visual Art in 1998 (Hons) at Adelaide Central School of Art she travelled to European art centres and studied at Glasgow School of Art courtesy of the Ruth Tuck Scholarship Award. In 2005 Lehmann spent time in India as a recipient of the Sanskriti Kendra Residency (SA) and in 2008 was listed as one of Australia’s 50 most collectable artists (Australian Art Collector magazine). In 2010, she was the recipient of both an Arts SA and Helpmann Academy Project Grant to develop new work in Paris through research at The Musée de la Chasse et Nature and the Musée Carnavalet. Chelsea Lehmann has taught Painting and Drawing at a number of institutions including The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Central School of Art and currently at the National Art School and the College of Fine Art UNSW in Sydney; where she also completed her Masters if Fine Art (2007).