I acknowledge that I live, work and create in Naarm on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay my respect to thier elders past, present and emerging.This was, and always will be Aboriginal land.

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 painting and drawing, 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. In 2016 she received a Masters of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne University and works as an artist exhibiting in a range of gallery spaces, as a support worker across various disability lead community organisations and as a sessional tutor at RMIT University.

Elyss is represented by Nicholas Thompson Gallery