Outline Imager - Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

November 20, 2022

I'm excited to share my upcoming solo exhibition Outline Imager, a suite of 4 paintings and support structures made in response to the changing light, and inside/outside shapes of the space.

There will also be an accompanying exhibition text available by the very talented artist and writer Madeline Simm.

Please join me for the opening event , or swing by for a visit whilst the show is on,
Opening event
Saturday 3 December2pm - 4pm

Exhibition runs 26 Nov 2022 - 4th March 2023 Open Wed - Sun 11am - 4pm

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre 7 Prospect Hill Drive, Bundoora, VIC, 3083

For more information about the show and new season of exhibitions opening soon, here is link

https://arts.darebin.vic.gov.au/Arts-venues/Bundoora-Homestead-Art-Centre/Exhibitions/Upcoming-exhibitions

Elyss McCleary, SCULPTOR (detail) oil on linen, re-purposed hardwood, 2022

The Corresponding of Noicing at Counihan Gallery Brunswick Town Hall

March 11, 2019

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 41cmThis is an ongoing series of works that are painting love portraits to the night trees. I take photos of… — 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.

The Pinkness at Tristian Koenig Gallery

January 16, 2019

Elyss McCleary | The Pinkness | 17.01.19 - 09.02.19

Tristian Koenig is delighted to announce the launch of the gallery’s 2019 exhibition program with The Pinkness - a solo exhibition of new works by Melbourne-based painter Elyss McCleary. McCleary has previously exhibited at the gallery in the group exhibition The Means Make the Ends, with The Pinkness being her first solo project with the gallery.

Elyss McCleary paints from within a vein of lyrical abstraction that is descriptive, as opposed to the proscriptive tenets implied by the quasi-movement within early post-war painting. Fusing memory with materiality, expressive haptics with Art History, along the way McCleary orchestrates a form of physical activity and moving meditation that is both fast and slow, soft and hard, viscous and unyielding.

The titles of her works veer between evocations of the quotidian and passing, to contemplative archetypal spaces - where seagulls spying hot chips are juxtaposed next to mystical snakes slithering across the sky. Linked by a uniformity of scale, the works share uncanny combinations of hue and thinly veiled and translucent brushwork, with the resultant effect creating a curious circularity - one can clearly demarcate where gestures start and end, overlap and merge, however the works defy an identification of start and end. This effect of eluding elucidation is the mystery of Painting.

To contact the gallery regarding pricing and availability of works click here

Elyss McCleary, Orchestra of Pink, oil on linen, 140cm x 125.5cm, 2018

Extended Gestures at Arcade Projects

May 29, 2018

Elyss McCleary, Drooping Style, oil on linen, 51cm x 41cm. 2017

EXTENDED GESTURES

Peter Aldrich Matthew Engert Elyss McCleary Khi-Lee Thorpe

The title for this show is borrowed from the writers Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Hercyznski who in their essay, The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock’s Abstractions, describe Pollock’s employment of gravity as a means “to extend the duration of his gestures”.1 In easel painting, finding new ways to form gesture, be it, by the brush or through other more unorthodox means (Brice Marden with his extended stick serves as a good example), has been an important pursuit by many artists.

The four artists in Extended Gestures build on this endeavour. Their marks are records of bodily activity, as they pursue methods that are provisional and intuitive. Bold strokes of colour are applied with careful attention to the stroke’s intensity and speed. They innovate ways to disperse paint, be it, through maximum thinning, or strokes that are at once, abbreviated and extended. In Extended Gestures the gesture is distilled, the painting process renovated and the very orthodoxies of easel painting challenged.

Aaron Martin
Curator

1. Cernuschi, Claude, and Andrzej Hercynski. "The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions." The Art Bulletin 90, no.4(2008):616-39.

Opening Friday, May 18th 6-9pm
Exhibition runs: May 16th -June 2nd 2018

Arcade (back space)
suite 2, level 1 / 119 Hopkins St, Footscray
open wed - sat 12-5pm

(Arcade Project Space is a Five Walls initiative)

Summer New at James Makin Gallery

January 25, 2018

My painting has been included in first exhibition of 2018 at James Makin Gallery, The Summer New Group Show.

Andrew Chan Carla Fletcher Betra Fraval Elyss McCleary Jack Rowland Paul Ryan

Summer New is on from the 17th January to 10th February 2018.

Link http://jamesmakingallery.com/

Elyss McCleary, Moon in the River, Oil on linen , 157cm x 123cm, 2018.

Opening on Wednesday at LON Gallery, The Man with Three Names

November 28, 2017

Elyss McCleary, Behind Eyelids (Talking with music) 2017. Oil on linen 140cm x 125.5cm

VCA Masters Exhibition

December 01, 2016

Ive very much enjoyed the last 2 years studying at the VCA, Im pleased to celebrate to have completed a Masters of Contemporary Art. The exhibition opens on Monday, come along and see what everyones been making!

Installation view, Jazz Cigarette, oil on canvas, cedarwood and oil on linen, 343cm x 87cm x 41cm, 2016Masters Exhibition - Opening Night Celebrations! 5 December, 6.00pm - 8.00pmThe VCA Masters Exhibition features the work of graduating students co… — Installation view, Elyss McCleary,Jazz Cigarette, oil on canvas, cedarwood and oil on linen, 343cm x 87cm x 41cm, 2016
Masters Exhibition - Opening Night Celebrations! 5 December, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
The VCA Masters Exhibition features the work of graduating students completing the Master of Contemporary Art and Master of Fine Art. Commencing in the Margaret Lawrence Gallery and spreading throughout the campus, this exhibition celebrates the students’ outstanding accomplishments in 2016.
The 2016 graduate catalogue, ‘one hundred and sixty-five degrees’ is available for purchase on the night at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
**Opening Celebrations:**
Monday 5 December, 6.00pm – 8.00pm
**Exhibition Dates:**
6 December to 11 December
Daily from 11.00am – 5.00pm
**Venue of official proceedings at 6pm:**
The Workshop, Building 874
**Enter via Margaret Lawrence Gallery**
**40 Dodds Street, Southbank**
Image credit: Brent Edwards

Image Credit: BASTIAN, Boe-Lin & REID, Mark, Yangmingshan 2014, stills from 2 channel HD video, stereo sound, looped.

A Second Shadow, prelude and trail at The Lock Up Artspace

March 16, 2015

A Second Shadow, prelude and trail opens at the Lock Up Gallery in Newcastle on Friday 27th March 2015. The exhbition runs from 27th March- 3rd May.

A Second Shadow, Prelude and Trail is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring 10 artists from Melbourne, Bellambi,Mullumbimby and Newcastle responding within their various practices to the idea of “juxtaposition.”

The exhibition brings together works that have a beginning and end point suggested. Through the meeting of each artist’s opposing works, the visual narrative and subplot endeavours to hold a heightened sense of play.Stereographic projection, spilt screen video, photography, painting, installation and sculpture will be presented throughout The Lock-Up and will construct a mysterious, intriguing take on image, process and object presence.

Featuring Davina Adamson, Boe-lin Bastian, Fiona Estelle Blandford, Jade Burstall, Beau Emmett, Doug Heslop, Elyss McCleary, Mark Reid, Brad Rusbridge and Mignon Steele.

Co-curated by Doug Helsop and Elyss McCleary.

http://www.thelockup.org.au/whats-on/a-second-shadow-prelude-and-trail

Adrian Lazzaro, paint pen, fineliner and acrylic on paper, 29.7cm x 21cm, 2014.

Drawn Together at Arts Project Australia

February 06, 2015

Adrian Lazzaro Not titled 2014, acrylic paint, paint pen, and felt pen on paper.

Image credit: Penelope Hunt.

Upon entering the studio space upstairs at Arts Project Australia, there is an immediate sense of creative energy, vivacity, inventiveness and immense production generated by the activity of the artists making their work. Drawing is an integral and significant part of that process and the diverse contemporary practice of many of the artists.

Amani Tia’s beautiful, sensitive pen and ink drawing of artists in the studio space reflect his passion for observational drawing. He also fills sketchbooks with delicate line portraits of people on the train as he commutes between Arts Project and home. A number of other artists explore perceptual drawing in the still life and life drawing programs in the studio. Alvaro Alvarez makes complex, enigmatic pencil drawings that are repeatedly erased and redrawn as he seeks to resolve the conceptual and formal aspects of the work. This leaves behind both a trace of the process of making and the artist's thoughts. Often the drawing is obscured further by its preparatory role for the application of paint and colour. Gestural, expressive, markmaking produces an energetic layering of abstract line, space and colour in Wendy Dawson and Rebecca Scibilia's work. Bronwyn Hack, Samraing Chea, Emily Dober and Adrian Lazzaro's intriguing figurative drawings investigate personal subject matter and narratives derived from photographic and digital references, memory or imagination.

There are many kinds of drawing at Arts Project. It has versatility, immediacy and directness and encompasses a diversity of approaches, styles and mediums. From more traditional pencil, charcoal, pen and ink on paper to digital media, video and animation, Drawn Together brings together artists with a connection to drawing. The exhibition presents a broad scope of drawing being made by artists at Arts Project Australia. For many artists it is their primary medium or an important component of their practice. It is a way of seeing and investigating the world - and that may be with a pencil or a computer.

Artist(s): Alvaro Alvarez, Nicholas Capaldo, Riccardo Cardinale, Leo Cussen, Wendy Dawson, Jamie Dawes, Emily Dober, Martin Forster, Bronwyn Hack, Brigid Hanrahan, Miles Howard-Wilks, John Huggins, Thomas Iacono, Kate Knight, Bobby Kyriakopoulos, Adrian Lazzaro, Andrew Ledwidge, Fiona Longhurst, Orion Manzart, Julian Martin, Cameron Noble, Nhan Nguyen, Chris O’Brien, Warren O’Brien, Lisa Reid, Brendan Slee, Rebecca Scibilia, Amani Tia and Timothy Williams.

Curator(s): Suzanne Brown & Elyss McCleary

Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

Arts Project Australia

24 High Street, Northcote
Victoria 3070

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