Elyss McCleary is a visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice explores forms found in layers of spaces, shapes and colour that shift between representation and abstraction. Working predominantly in oil paint, her compositional placement rhythms are both a reflection and response to environments. She creates portals of imagined spaces mixed with cinematic backgrounds of the everyday that are fused with memory and observation, interrupted by ‘cameo’ appearances of significant urban structures. The works additionally comment on how images are repeatedly orchestrated in media.

Elyss is represented by Nicholas Thompson Gallery