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Lois Basham

Following a career as a radiologist, Lois Basham, is now a multimedia sculptor and filmmaker. She explores significant places and the bodily memories embedded in the materials and everyday objects found there. 

In 2026 she is a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize with her sculpture "Leftovers". For May 2026 an extended sculptural and audiovisual iteration of "Leftovers" was exhibited as a solo show at Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne.

Her sculpture "Liquidity" was in the international exhibition, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney, in 2024 and Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe in 2026.

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In 2025 her short film, "Siren Call", was screened at the London International Short Film Festival, previously receiving an award in the USA Short Film Festival in 2024.

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She has been a finalist in the Yering Station Sculpture Awards in 2019, 2021 & 2023.

Lois has exhibited in many group shows in Australia in McClelland Art Gallery, Counihan Art Gallery, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, YAVA Gallery, The Hive Gallery, Toorak Village Sculpture Awards, the Goldcoast Gallery and Sculpture Inside Gallery, Sydney.

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Lois is currently completing the Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) after completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (sculpture) at RMIT Melbourne in 2024.

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