ELYSS MCCLEARY IN ‘HARMONIOUS ECCENTRICITY’ AT CORRESPONDENCE, BRUNSWICK

Elyss McCleary is exhibited in ‘Harmonious Eccentricity’ with Emma Ovenden from 25 January to 7 March at Correspondences, Brunswick. The collaborative residency project features painting by Elyss McCleary alongside live music, improvisation, video, quilting and beading practice by musician/composer/visual artist Emma Ovenden. The project is presented over six weeks and features five different displays. Alongside the exhibitions,…

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ELYSS MCCLEARY FEATURED IN ‘ARTIST PROFILE’ ISSUE 62

My art practice explores the spaces that shift between representation and abstraction, with a focus on painting and drawing. Working predominantly in oil paint, I use colour, gesture, materiality, compositional rhythms, and intuition to create spaces that are both a reflection of the everyday and something that expands from it. My upcoming show, at Nicholas…

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ELYSS MCCLEARY EXHIBITION PREVIEWED IN ‘ART COLLECTOR’ ISSUE 103

For her forthcoming exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Elyss McCleary will present a sequential suite of medium to large paintings depicting rainbow spectrum scenes of colour luminosity. The works amalgamate notions of grounding and lightness, as well as interconnected human relationships, abstracted through vivid and hovering compositional colour plays. “McCleary’s initial fresh fast drawing is…

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