Elyss McCleary
b. 1977 Mildura, Australia.
Currently lives in Naarm / Melbourne
Elyss is represented by Nicholas Thompson Gallery
EDUCATION
2016 Master of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne
2008 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing Major), RMIT University, Melbourne 2004 Diploma Welfare and Community Services, Swinburne University 2000 Certificate IV Community Services (Disability) UTS Sydney 1999 Diploma Fine Art Photography, National Art School, Sydney
1996 Diploma Drawing Fundamentals Western Institute Technology, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Tender Anchor, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne 2023 Outline Imager , Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Melbourne 2022 Fandangle Chroma/s, Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland 2022 Fandangle Chroma/s, Brunswick Temporary, Melbourne 2019 Saturday feels like Vermilion then Cherry Red, Stacks Projects, Sydney 2019 Under the city a graffiti wall is left in the rain, Tristian Koenig and Black Arts Projects, Melbourne 2019 The Pinkness, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne 2017 Settings, Nth Space Ari, Melbourne 2016 Bedrooms, Rubicon Ari, Melbourne 2013 Estimating a Fort, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne
2010 Shutter Speed Luminosity, Brunswick Arts Space
2007 Shoulder to Shoulder, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Harmonious Eccentricity, Correspondences, Melbourne 2024 A Summer Selection: Work by Represented Artists, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne 2023 Spring Art Fair, with Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne 2023 Interval Diagonal, Divisions Gallery, Melbourne 2023 Fever Dreams, curated by Mitchel Brennan, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne 2022 The Landscape Show, curated by Jordan Wood, Kyneton Ridge Arts Space 2022 March Collection online, curated by Lily Mora, Sunday Salon 2021 July Collection online,curated by Lily Mora, Sunday Salon 2021 Webbed Feet, curated by Narelle Desmond and Ry Haskings, Conners Conners, Melbourne 2021 A Journey Around My Room, Island Island online, Bus Projects, Melbourne 2020 These Days, curated by Sebastian Goldspink, COMA Gallery, Sydney 2020 Common Thread, St. Heliers Gallery, Melbourne 2019 Otherworldly, curated by Aaron Fell- Fracasso, Egg & Dart, Thirroul 2019 The Correspondence of Noticing, Counihan Gallery,, Melbourne 2018 Open Eye Signal, Fort Delta, Melbourne 2018 Variations,curated by Sophie Moshakis, Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne 2018 Extended Gestures, curated by Aaron Martin , Arcade Projects, Melbourne 2018 Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2017 The man with Three Names, curated by Meredith Stone, LON Gallery, Melbourne 2017 The Means Make the Ends, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne 2017 B-SIDE Blindside Ari, Melbourne 2017 Open House, curated by Beau Emmett and Elvis Richardson, True Estate, Melbourne 2017 The Deafening Sounds of These Drawings, Flash Night KINGS Ari, Melbourne
2017 April Group Show, curated by Camille Klose James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2017 What’s happening Here? curated by Mardi Nowak and Kent Wilson,Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne 2016 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne 2016 Twelve, curated by Harriet Fesq, Koskela, Sydney
2015 Joy to the Other World , VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2015 A Second Shadow, Prelude and Trial, curated by Doug Heslop and Elyss McCleary The Lock Up, Newcastle
2014 The Invisible Link, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2012 Everything Touches Everything, curated by Natalie McCarthy, Radovan Mica Trnavac, Veljevo,
CURATORIAL
2019 The Natural Way, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne 2015 A Second Shadow, Prelude and Trail, co- curated with Doug Heslop, The Lock Up, Newcastle
2015 Drawn Together, co curated with Suzanne Brown, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2014 Into the Vault and Out of the Box ,co curated with James McDonald, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2011 Google me This, co curated with Carmen Reid, Library Art Space, Melbourne 2011 Drawspace, co curated with Lindy Macauley, Glen Eira Town Hall, Melbourne
RESIDENCIES
2024 Harmonious Eccentricity (in collaboration with Emma Ovenden) , correspondences,Melbourne (upcoming) 2012 Everything Touches Everything - Six female artists, International Art Studio Radovan Trnavac Mica, Valjevo 2009 Variable Actions Projects Space Collingwood, Melbourne
AWARDS/PRIZES/GRANTS
2022 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Gallery Brighton Town Hall, Melbourne (Finalist) 2019 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Gallery Brighton Town Hall, Melbourne (Finalist) 2017 Nillumbik Prize, Barn Gallery Monselvat, Melbourne (Finalist) 2016 Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne (Finalist) 2016 M Collection Art Award, Gallery Smith, Melbourne (Finalist)
2011 Janet Holmes a Court Artist Grant NAVA for Google me this
2009 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Adelaide Perry gallery, Sydney (Finalist) 2009 Flanigan Art Prize, St. Patrick’s College, Ballarat (Finalist) 2007 Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship Prize, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney (Highly Commended)
COLLECTIONS
Artbank Collection, purchased 2020, Deakin University Art Collection, 2019, Darabin Art Collection, 2019, Macquarie Group Collection, 2019, 2017, M Collection Melbourne, 2016, International Art Collection, Belgrade, 2012.