Taco Tuesday, 2021
Oil on canvas, 101 x 101 cm
SOLD
My dance monkey, 2021
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 152 x 61 cm
SOLD
I'm a Fruit Boy, 2021
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 152 x 61 cm
SOLD
Wireless Bra, 2021
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 152 x 61 cm
SOLD
Abundant Desire, 2019
Oil on Canvas, 152 x 123 cm
SOLD
Wait For Me, 2019
Oil on Canvas
152 x 123 cm
SOLD
We Are Lovers, 2018
Oil on canvas
91 x 76 cm
SOLD
Llewellyn Skye
Llewellyn Skye's bold floral abstractions convey young love in a primal language of colour and gesture. What emerges is a paradox of profound opposites. Foolish, youthful passion is freeing but all-consuming. It furnishes hope yet brings despair. Such love is perfectly flawed in its overwhelming intensity but also beautiful and magical in its imperfections and surprises. Skye’s effervescent, expressive bouquets are rendered with confident brush strokes in vibrant colours against dark and muted backgrounds. The work, which marries abstraction and expressionism, mirrors the sweetness and inevitable pain of the ardor of young romance, which, like the springtime, blooms with vigor but soon betrays its fragility. Skye's work recognises that with change and loss comes a darkness. But it also affirms the need to struggle to live in the moments, however fleeting, of beauty and light.
"Florals represent abstract beauty and impermanence, all the qualities I enjoy in life and love." - Skye
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Stay Gold, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
Hue To Hold, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2020
Daylight Breaks, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
Bleeding Daylight, M-Arts, Murwillumbah
2019
Latest Works, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2012
Sugar, Conzano, Italy
Picasso's Goat, Randwick Childrens Hospital, Sydney
2011
Di Zucchero, Montefiascone, Italy
2009
Girl's Best Friend, RCH, Sydney
2008
Party Animals, Nyst Gallery, Gold Coast
Animal Crackers, RCH, Sydney
2007
Like Humans Do, Xavier Art Space, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Modern Love, A K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
2019 Summer Show, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Share the Dignity, Amber Creswell Bell, Sydney
2019 Summer Show, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2019 TSS Art Show, GC
2019 Dean Gogle Portrait Prize, GC
2019 Winter Landscape, Hang About Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Ten, White Canvas, Brisbane
2018 Our Fiction, Studio 8, GV
2018 The Summer Exhibition, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GV
2018 Dusty People, Dust Temple, Gold Coast
2018 Neumman Dust Temple Portrait Prize, Dust Temple, GV
2018 Morris Art Prize, Carrara, GV
2018 When Then Becomes Now, SOFA, GV
2017 Arcadia, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GV
2016 Once a Summers Eve, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2016 Driven to Creat, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2015 Portrait Exhibition, Hinge Gallery, GC
2015 Summer, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2014 Cool Yule, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2014 Drawn to Detail, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2013 Beauty Truth and Grace, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2013 Ya Gotta Áve It, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2013 Summertime, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2012 Good Sports, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio Gallery, GC
2012 Home Sown, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio Gallery, GC
2012 Art in the Hills, Castle Hill, Sydney
2012 From the Vault, RCH, Sydney
2011 Plate Show, NAS, Sydney
2011 Friends, RCH, Sydney
2011 Hidden Words, Retrospect, GC
2010 Inanimate, Nyst Gallery, GC
2009 Fourth Estate, Nyst Gallery, GC
2009 Innocence, Nyst Gallery, GC
2008 If You Cant Stand the Heat, Nyst Gallery, GC
2008 Australie Mythe et Realite, Paris, France
2008 Trees for Children, Customs House, Sydney
2008 Artist at my Table, NAS, Sydney
2007 Simply the Best, Deka, GC
2007 Imagined Australia, Prato, Italy
2007 Reverentia, Deka, GC
2006 Joint Venture, Benowa, GC
2006 Showcase, Downing Centre, Sydney
2006 Surface Tension, May St Gallery, Sydney
2006 Image & Artefact, See St Gallery, Sydney
2006 MCAAA, See St Gallery, Sydney
2005 NAS Degree Show, Sydney
2005 John Olsen Drawing Prize, NAS, Sydney
2005 FONAS Exchange Reuter, NAS, Sydney
2004 Liquid Amber Productions, Sydney
2000 Stop Domestic Violence, Sydney
Education
2006 Advanced Painting Course, Sydney Gallery School, Meadowbank, Sydney
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2002 Creative Drawing, Newtown, Sydney
2002 Right Brain Drawing, Balmain, Sydney
Selected Features
2020 House Rules
2020 The Block Shop
2020 We Are Gold Coast
2020 Rising Woman Creative
2020 Tweed Valley TV, Tweed
2020 What’s On Tweed, Dec, Tweed
2019 The Echo, Dec, Byron
2019 The Weekend Edition Feb, Brisbane
2017 The Drift, July, Qld
2017 Robina Town Centre, Aug, Qld
2017 Fashion Journal, May
2017 Nikel + Sole, Nov, Melbourne
2016 Daily Imprint, Feb, Sydney
2011 Herbert River Express, June, Qld
2010 Sydney Morning Herald, May, Sydney
2008 Southern Courier, Nov, Sydney
2008 Coast Confidential, GC Bulletin, July, Qld
2008 Weekend Bulletin, June, Gold Coast
2008 Art Almanac, Profiles, June Edition
2008 Southern Courier, Feb, Sydney
2007 The Sun-Herald, March, Sydney
2006 Northern District Times, October, Sydney
2005 Daily Telegraph, November, Sydney
2001/02 NSW Stop Domestic Violence Week
2001 Front cover Speaking Out magazine, Sydney
Public Commissions
2019 Main Beach Flower Festival, Mural, QLD
2019 RSL Art Union, QLD
2018 Robina Town Centre, Totem Artwork, QLD
2018 Nikel and Sole, Summer Collection, VIC
2017 Nikel and Sole, Winter Collection, VIC
Awards
2020 Finalist, Art Lovers Art Prize, Qld
2019 People’s Choice Award, Dean Cogle Portrait Prize, Dust Temple, Qld
2018 Artist in Residence, Burleigh Brewing, Qld
2018 Winner, Brewing Local Artists, Burleigh Brewing, Qld 2011 Artegiro Artist Residency, Italy
2008 Trees for Children, Sydney
2007 Xavier Art Space Prize, Sydney
2006 Finalist Arts North Permanent Collection NSW
2006 Showcase Prize Tafe NSW
2006 Tafe Alumni Art Prize - Janice McCulloch - Art Almanac 2005 Highly Commended, John Olsen Drawing Prize
2000 Finalist Stop Domestic Violence
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