Lindsay Edward

Lindsay M. Edward (1919–2007) was an Australian abstract artist, mosaicist and teacher. He was born in Victoria on 26 August 1919.

Edward studied at the National Gallery Art School from 1938 to 1941 under Charles Wheeler and W.B. McInnes. and where he was teacher 1947–1954, head of painting, 1954–67 and head of school 1967–79. and described by Professor Bernard Smith as "a perceptive art with its own quiet distinction". Photographs of the winning mural were exhibited in Melbourne at Gallery A in September 1960, and were thought to "reveal a quality in design related in strength to figure compositions on Greek pottery". This mural contributed to the listing of the former State Library Building on the State Heritage Register in 1992. At 20.7 by 4.4 metres (68 ft x 14 1/2 ft), Edward's mosaic mural is the largest in Queensland, (the second largest being the Anzac Square mosaic mural), and is discussed in the book Monumental Queensland: sign posts on a cultural landscape. A close-up image of the mural taken by Graham de Gruchy can be seen at the UQ eSpace Library.

Edward had around 20 solo exhibitions of his work between 1944 and 1993. including RMIT.

Lindsay Edward died on 9 January 2007. His obituary was written by Jenny Zimmer who taught art history at RMIT during his time there, and was published in The Age.