Skye.
Skye responds visually to her observations, experiences, and the world around her. Processing her thoughts, feelings, and emotions through nature, particularly florals, allows Skye to explore the nuances of human experience whilst challenging traditional conventions. Working primarily with oil paint from floral constructions and imagery, Skye's work is paradoxical, unapologetic, rebellious, and wild.
Artist Bio
Paradoxical and unapologetic, Skye juxtaposes nature with a potent blend of tranquility and turbulence. Actively seeking a collision of worlds where structure meets chaos, softness battles power, and tradition rebels against rebellion, Skye's paintings push the boundaries of artistic orthodoxy with explosive energy and emotional charge. Aggressively beautiful, perplexing, and intriguing, Skye's paintings explore the nuances of human experience whilst challenging traditional conventions and the canon of floral still-life painting.
Participating in over 60 exhibitions, including 12 solo shows, Skye is gaining recognition both locally and internationally. Her artistic achievements include being selected for the UA Artist Residency in New York in 2024, an invitation to exhibit at the prestigious King's School Art Prize in 2024, and her recent solo exhibition at Australasia's leading international art fair, Sydney Contemporary in 2023. Home Beautiful recognised Skye in their 20 Best and Brightest list in 2023, and in 2021, she won both the Fenton & Fenton Rising Talent Award and the ALA Abstract Artist Award, also winning the BLA Award in 2018. Skye was highly commended in the John Olsen drawing prize and selected for the Artegiro Artist Residency in Italy, in addition to various notable private and public commissions.
Artistic Ethos.
Challenge tradition.
Entangling power with fragility and grace with decay, Skye challenges traditional conventions of beauty and the canon of aesthetics.
Embrace wild.
Guided by intuition and a refusal to conform, Skye gives way to uncertainty, paving the way for the wild and unpredictable moments in between.
Inspire courage.
Skye inspires individuality, courage, and exchange by continually pushing the boundaries of artistic orthodoxy and expectations.
Exhibitions & Awards
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Idle Hours, Lennox St. Gallery, Melbourne
2024 So Baroqué, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Chasing Romance, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair | Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2022 Calm Down Baby, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2022 They Once Felt Like Water, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2021 This Is A Love Story, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2021 Hue To Hold, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Daylight Breaks, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2020 Bleeding Daylight, M-Arts, Murwillumbah
2019 Latest Works, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2012 Sugar, Conzano, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Here And Now, HOTA, Gold Coast
2024 Action In Abstraction, Wagner Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
2024 Kings Art Prize, Sydney
2024 Lennox St. Summer, Melbourne
2023 Spring Jardin & Falling Flowers, Grainger Gallery, ACT
2023 Summer Exhibition, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2023 Abstraction, Collectors' Focus Series V, Metro Gallery
2022 December Group Show, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Landscape: Collectors' Focus Series II & IV, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2022 40/40 Project, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2022 Large Scale Works, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2022 Metro Summer, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Summer Salon, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery
2021 Christmas Group Show, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2021 Gallery Group Show, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2021 Spring ’21, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 The Romantics, ALA, Southport
2021 Rising Talent, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 Kaleidoscope, Revival Art & Design, Brisbane
2021 All Eyes On The Arts, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery
2020 Art Knows No Borders, Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery & M-Arts
2020 Albion Gallery Opening, Brisbane
2020 Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery
2020 Modern Love, A K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
2019 Summer Show, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Share The Dignity, Amber Creswell Bell, Sydney
2019 Summer Show, Lorraine Pilgrim, Gold Coast
2018 The Summer Exhibition, Lorraine Pilgrim, Gold Coast`
Permanent Collections
Randwick Children’s Hospital, Sydney
St Vincents Hospital, Sydney
Works held in private collections
Private commissions throughout Australia and Internationally
Public Commissions
2021 Southern Wild Co, Sunshine State Collection, NSW
2019 Main Beach Flower Festival, Mural, QLD
2019 RSL Art Union, Qld
2018 Robina Town Centre, QLD
2018 Nikel and Sole, Summer Collection, VIC
2017 Nikel and Sole, Winter Collection, VIC
Art Prizes
2024 Finalist, Here And Now, HOTA, Gold Coast
2024 Artist in Residence, UA International Residency, Brooklyn, New York
2024 Finalist, King's Art Prize, Sydney
2023 Finalist, 20 Best and Brightest, Home Beautiful, January
2021 Winner, Rising Talent, Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 Winner, Abstract Art Prize, 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
2018 Winner, Brewing Local Artists, Burleigh Brewing, Qld
2011 Artist in Residence, Italy
2008 Trees for Children, Sydney
2007 Xavier Art Space Prize, Sydney
2006 Finalist Arts North Permanent Collection NSW
2006 Showcase Prize Tafe NSW
2006 Highly Commended, Tafe Alumni Art Prize - Janice McCulloch - Art Almanac
2005 Highly Commended, John Olsen Drawing Prize, NAS, Sydney
Publications and Interviews
2024 Elle Global Woman, California
2023 Art Collector Magazine, Sydney Contemporary | Special Edition
2023 Art Collector Magazine, Sydney
2023 The Paddo Papers Edition, September
2023 Art Collector Magazine, January
2023 Home Beautiful Magazine, January
2022 AGNSW Magazine, May
2022 Art Collector Magazine, April
2022 Elle Global Woman, Fall Edition, California
2022 New Visionary Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Elle Foundation, California
2021 Visionary Art Collective
2021 The Block
2021 The Block Shop
2021 ALA Feature
2021 Fenton & Fenton, Melbourne
2021 Southern Wild Co, New South Wales
2020 Vanity Fair, UK, December
2020 House Rules, Australia
2020 The Block Shop, Melbourne
2020 We Are Gold Coast, Gold Coast
2020 Rising Woman Creative, France
2020 Tweed Valley TV, Tweed
2020 What’s On Tweed, Dec, Tweed
2019 The Echo, Dec, Byron
2019 The Weekend Edition Feb, Brisbane
2017 The Drift, July, Qld
2017 Robina Town Centre, Aug, Qld
2017 Fashion Journal, May
2017 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
2008 Coast Confidential, GC Bulletin, July, Qld
2008 Weekend Bulletin, June, Gold Coast
2008 Art Almanac, Profiles, June Edition
2008 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
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
