Llewellyn Skye
Working predominantly with oil paint, but also using acrylics and sprays, Skye is intrigued by paint as a medium: its tactile nature and expressive form, the shapes, colours and textures that manifest beneath her brush; the wonders that slowly, reveal themselves, as if by magic, and the myriad of stories that unfold. Drawn to abstraction because it enables her to tap fully into her imagination and into the unknown, with neither constraint nor conformity. Painting intuitively, moving her body freely and exploring her subconscious, Skye imbibes her works with a unique energy, depth and strong sense of place, space and time.
As well as nature, Skye also draws inspiration from music, poetry and lyrics, along with her own, very personal experiences of love, loss and grief. She is a truly versatile artist, frequently experimenting with mediums and styles and never afraid to push the boundaries of her imagination and creativity.
Skye is an accomplished artist whose work has been represented in over 50 exhibitions and 10 solo shows. She received the Fenton & Fenton 2021 Rising Talent Award, ALA 2021 Abstract Artist Award, 2018 BLA Award, was highly commended in the John Olsen drawing prize and was awarded a painting residency in Italy. She has undertaken a significant number of notable commissions, and her works can be found in a number of public and private collections in Australia and abroad.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Gosford on the NSW Central Coast and raised in Sydney, Skye’s love of painting and drawing became indelibly printed on her soul at a young age. After establishing herself in another career, Skye ran off to the National Art School in Sydney to undertake a BFA in Fine Arts, followed by a painting diploma at The Sydney Gallery School, where she was discovered by Lorraine Pilgrim and her stable. Moving to the Queensland Gold Coast and completing her young family of three children, Skye now paints full time in her studio in Palm Beach as well as raising her young family.
Artist CV
LLEWELLYN SKYE |CV 2021
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 This Is A Love Story, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2021 Hue To Hold, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Daylight Breaks, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2020 Bleeding Daylight, M-Arts, Murwillumbah
2019 Latest Works, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2012 Sugar, Conzano, Italy
2012 Picasso’s Goat, Randwick Childrens Hospital, Sydney
2011 Di Zucchero, Montefiascone, Italy
2009 Girls Best Friend, RCH, Sydney
2008 Party Animals, Nyst Gallery, Gold Coast
2008 Animal Crackers, RCH, Sydney
2007 Like Humans Do, Xavier Art Space, Sydney
RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Villa Rusticans, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery
2021 Gallery Group Show, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2021 Spring ’21, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 The Romantics, ALA, Southport
2021 Rising Talent, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 Kaleidoscope, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2021 All Eyes On the Arts, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery
2020 Art Knows No Borders, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery & M-Arts
2020 Albion Gallery Opening, Brisbane
2020 Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery
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 Cogle Portrait Prize, GC
2019 Winter Landscape, Revival Art & Design Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Ten, White Canvas, Brisbane
2018 Our Fiction, Studio 8, GC
2018 The Summer Exhibition, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
2018 Dusty People, Dust Temple, Gold Coast
2018 Neumman Dust Temple Portrait Prize, Dust Temple, GC
2018 Morris Art Prize, Carrara, GC
2018 When Then Becomes Now, SOFA, GC
2017 Arcadia, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, GC
EDUCATION
2011 Artegiro Residency, Montefiascone, Italy
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
RECENT PUBLICATIONS INTERVIEWS BLOGS
2021 The Block
2021 Art Lovers Australia
2021 The Block Shop
2021 Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 Southern Wild Co, New South Wales
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
AWARDS
2021 Winner, Rising Talent, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 Winner, Abstract Art, Art Lovers Australia
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 Selected for Artegiro Artist Residency, Italy
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2021 Southern Wild Co, Sunshine State Collection, NSW
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
