Llewellyn Skye

Llewellyn Skye's bold floral abstractions convey young love in a primal language of colour and gesture. What emerges is a paradox of profound opposites. Foolish, youthful passion is freeing but all-consuming. It furnishes hope yet brings despair. Such love is perfectly flawed in its overwhelming intensity but also beautiful and magical in its imperfections and surprises. Skye’s effervescent, expressive bouquets are rendered with confident brush strokes in vibrant colours against dark and muted backgrounds. The work, which marries abstraction and expressionism, mirrors the sweetness and inevitable pain of the ardor of young romance, which, like the springtime, blooms with vigour but soon betrays its fragility. Skye's work recognises that with change and loss comes a darkness. But it also affirms the need to struggle to live in the moments, however fleeting, of beauty and light.

​​"Florals represent abstract beauty and impermanence, all the qualities I enjoy in life and love." - Skye

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Education

2011

Artegiro Residency, Montefiascone, Italy


​2006

Advanced Painting Course, Sydney Gallery School, Meadowbank, Sydney

2005

Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022

Calm Down Baby, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne

They Once Felt Like Water, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney

2021

This Is A Love Story, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane

Hue To Hold, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

2020

Daylight Breaks, Revival Art & Design, QLD, Australia

Bleeding Daylight, M-Arts, QLD, Australia

2019

LatestWorks, Revival Art & Design, QLD, Australia

2012

Sugar, Conzano, Italy

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Abstraction, Collectors' Focus Series V, Metro Gallery

Summer Exhibition, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney

2022

December Group Show, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

Landscape: Collectors' Focus Series IV & V, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

40/40 Project, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney

Large Scale New Works, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney

Metro Summer, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

Summer Salon, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery

2021

Christmas Group Show, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney

Gallery Group Show, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney

Spring ’21, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne

The Romantics, ALA, Southport

Rising Talent, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne

Kaleidoscope, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane

All Eyes On The Arts, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery

2020

Art Knows No Borders, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery & M-Arts

Albion Gallery Opening, Brisbane

Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery

Modern Love, A K Bellinger Gallery, NSW, Australia

Summer Show, Metro Gallery, VIC, Australia

2019

Share the Dignity, Amber Creswell Bell, NSW, Australia

Summer Show, Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, QLD, Australia

 

Selected Bibliography

2023

Art Collector Magazine, January

Home Beautiful Magazine, January

2022

AGNSW Magazine, May

Art Collector, April

New Visionary Magazine, Brooklyn,NY

Elle Foundation, California

2021

Visionary Art Collective

The Block

The Block Shop

ALA Feature

Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne

Southern Wild Co, New South Wales

2020

Vanity Fair, UK, Dcember

House Rules, Australia

The Block Shop, Melbourne

We Are Gold Coast, Gold Coast

Rising Woman Creative, France

Tweed Valley TV, Tweed

What’s On Tweed, Dec, Tweed

2019

The Echo, Dec, Byron

The Weekend Edition Feb, Brisbane

2017

The Drift, July, QLD

Robina Town Centre, Aug, QLD

Fashion Journal, May

Nikel + Sole, Nov, Melbourne

2016

Daily Imprint, Feb, Sydney

2011

Herbert River Express, June, QLD

2010

Sydney Morning Herald, May, Sydney

2008

Southern Courier, Nov, Sydney
Coast Confidential, GC Bulletin, July, QLD
Weekend Bulletin, June, Gold Coast
Art Almanac, Profiles, June Edition
Southern Courier, Feb, Sydney


2007

The Sun-Herald, March, Sydney


2006

Northern District Times, October, Sydney


2005

Daily Telegraph, November, Sydney

2001/02

NSW Stop Domestic Violence Week

2001

Front cover Speaking Out magazine, Sydney 

 

Art Prizes

2023

Finalist, 20 Best and BrightestArtists, Home Beautiful

2021

Winner, Rising Talent, Fenton& Fenton, Melbourne

Winner, Abstract Art, Art Lovers, Australia

2020

Finalist, Art Lovers Art Prize, QLD

2019

People’s Choice Award, Dean Cogle Portrait Prize, Dust Temple, QLD

2018

Artist in Residence, Burleigh Brewing, QLD

Winner, Brewing Local Artists, Burleigh Brewing, QLD

2011

Selected for Artegiro Artist Residency, Italy

2008

Trees for Children, Sydney

2007

Xavier Art Space Prize, Sydney

2006

Finalist Arts North Permanent Collection, NSW

Showcase Prize Tafe, NSW

Highly Commended, Tafe Alumni Art Prize - Janice McCulloch - Art Almanac

2005

Highly Commended, John OlsenDrawing Prize

Collections

Randwick Children’s Hospital, Sydney
St Vincents Hospital, Sydney
Work is held in private collections throughout Australia and internationally

 

Commissions

2021

Southern Wild Co, Sunshine State Collection, NSW

2019

Main Beach Flower Festival,Mural, QLD

RSL Art Union, QLD

2018

Robina Town Centre, TotemArtwork, QLD

Nikel and Sole, SummerCollection, VIC

2017

Nikel and Sole, Winter Collection, VIC

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What to do, what to do
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Tick Tick Boom
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Pretty little flower paintings III
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Pretty little flower paintings II
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No mud, no lotus
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Llewellyn Skye, No mud, no lotus, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 153cm x 61cm
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Month of Sundays
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Llewellyn Skye, Month of Sundays, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 185cm x 200cm
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Killing time
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Llewellyn Skye, Killing time, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 153cm x 122cm
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In the dark
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Llewellyn Skye, In the dark, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 153cm x 61cm
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Forever and a day
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Llewellyn Skye, Forever and a day, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 153cm x 61cm
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Changing of the Guard
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Llewellyn Skye, Changing of the Guard, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 123cm x 102cm
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