The Landscape Show at Kyneton Ridge Artspace

-The Landscape Show- curated by Jordan Wood
opening 11.06.22 3-5pm
Kyneton Ridge Cellar Door
featuring:

Anna Steele Betra Fraval Clare Scanlan Ellequa Martin Elyss McCleary Kate Hodgetts Kylie Blackley Rebecca Delange Stephanie Hicks

“The exhibition ties to landscape in an expansive sense. It is impossible and infinite, political, immersive, charged yet supportive. Each artist takes in the landscape, exploring and probing with their motley collection of tools” -Jordan Wood curator.

Kyneton Ridge acknowledges the Taungurung and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples as the traditional custodians of the land present, and future, and extend that respect to all First Nations people.

i have some paintings in lovely group show that just opened on Saturday. The exhibition continues until 11.07.2022 at Kyneton Ridge Artspace.

https://www.kynetonridge.com.au/

Elyss McCleary LITTLE RAINBOW ON THE LEAVES oil on linen, 51cm x41cm, 2022

Webbed Feet group exhibition at Conners Conners

Webbed feet came about through a curatorial approach of connecting works and ways of making through playful and optimistic means. Curated by Narelle Desmond and Ry Haskings featuring works by Sarah Brassier, Tristan Davies, Elyss McCleary and Madeline Simm currently showing at Conners Conners until the 17th April 2021 at the the Fitzroy Town Hall.

Elyss McCleary, NOTES ON A ROOM oil on linen, 83cm x 21cm ,2020.

THESE DAYS @COMA Gallery, Sydney

THESE DAYS

Curated by Sebastian Goldspink

6 March - 28 March, 2020

Opening reception: Friday 6 March, 6-8 PM

COMA is pleased to present These Days, curated by Sebastian Goldspink, a group exhibition focused on painting juxtaposed with archival Video 8 elements taken from the curator's own childhood. 

Painting is about lots of things but perhaps fundamentally it is about problems. It takes a very specific mindset to grapple with all the physical and conceptual rigours required to render an idea visually. This exhibition brings together a seemingly disparate group of young Australian painters who are united in their passion for embracing the challenges of painting, of working through the problems. Painting is a great game that is ultimately between the artist and the surface. This exhibition is idiosyncratic. It is a selection that is based on threads and connections between artists. These Days looks at what is happening now but also what has passed. 

Catherine Clayton-Smith Emily Galicek Zara June Williams Jasper Knight Jack Lanagan Dunbar Tanya Linney Elyss McCleary Marilyn Schneider Laura Skerlj Elena Ortega Tolosana Julia Trybala Bradley Vincent. 

For any enquiries or the request a catalogue please contact : info@comagallery.com

https://comagallery.com/exhibitions/

First Floor, 71-73 Stanley Street
Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010
Australia

Artist talk, 7th March 2020 at COMA gallery with Elena Ortega, Tanya Linney, Jasper Knight, (myself) and Sebastian Goldspink.

Common Thread, at St. Helliers Gallery, Abbortsfor

I have a new painting in a group exhibition by the staff artists working at Arts Project Australia - a visual art studio supporting neuro diverse individuals with their contemporary art practices. I made the work in response to being in the studio with amazing artists, and the collective passion and influence Arts Project has had on my own practice as well. Below is a beautifully insightful essay written by Michael Schwarz, board member, art enthusiast and friend of Arts Project Australia, which is available also in hard copy at the exhibition.

Opening Night: 14th February 6-8pm All Welcome

Exhibition continues until 4th March 2020, St Heliers Gallery enter via Cam’s Cafe, 1 Heliers Street Abbortsford, Vic, 3067

Alysia Rees Anna-Maria O’Keeffe Carolyn Hawkins Elyss McCleary James McDonald Jodie Kipps Lyn Young Marcel Cooper, Penelope Hunt Peter Douglas Rob McHaffie Suzanne Brown Tom Pendergast, Yoshe Gillespie.

Exhibition invitation design by Carolyn Hawkins, 2020.

Elyss McCleary, A Lyric sound of exchange attach to the paint mixing desk, the beige blinds pulled halfway by the window, soft rain outside. Oil on linen, 148cm x 82cm, 2020

The Corresponding of Noicing at Counihan Gallery Brunswick Town Hall

Elyss McCleary Margaret McIntosh Hannah Smith Anna Steele Mignon Steele

The Correspondence Of Noticing is a project aimed at drawing attention to our surroundings. As simmering changes occur in our various lived environments a group of artists propose that noticing and making is a type of sustenance, a means of survival. Though addressing the landscape in their own unique way, dialogues emerge between artists as they reflect on still moments that can be seen as an antidote to combat sensations of expansion and erosion: trees that hold space amongst concrete, quietness of a void in the land before development, the quivering anxiety of forms in a shifting seascape.

Through a series of works including painting, installations and assemblages come narratives of lived thoughts and experiences: stories of awareness, acknowledgement and connectivity

Elyss McCleary Night trees frame the moon at Merri Creek skate park, dusk, a beautiful refreshing silver shower 2019 , Oil on linen, 51cm x 41cm

This is an ongoing series of works that are painting love portraits to the night trees. I take photos of the trees in the evening, dawn or at night, the paintings are quiet portraits of some of these.The sky and camera flash stage a surreal flat image of it in space.

I often think about the trees there holding space, people and things around, sounds, ciggies, maybe rubbish or piss on it, a road through, a bright light. The neon glow of amber city or suburban occupational and health light for made for us is blaring on the tree, i wish i could give it some sunglasses for this at night at least. so very beautiful and strong, talking and making sounds with each other.

TWELVE The Koskela Annual Group Exhibition

 This years annual group show at Koskela in Sydney opening Saturday 19th November, 4-6pm.

Gunjan Alyawadi Elizabeth Barnett Emily Besser Fiona Chandler Margaret Kamaree Ross Emma Lipscombe Wendy McDonald Sylvia McEwan Elyss McCleary Michele Morcos Mignon Steele Melanie Waugh.

Exhibition runs from November 12th -December 24th, 2016.

Koskela 1/85 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery, NSW, 2018.

http://koskela.com.au/exhibitions-page/

Elyss McCleary, Afternoon, oil on linen, 2016. 51cm x 41cm