PRESENTING WORKS by KATHRYN SKELSEY
2009 - 4th to 30th April - My first solo exhibition - "BODY LANGUAGE: Human Form, Messages and Meaning"
Invitation I Artist's Statement I Media Release I Flyer I Image Gallery I Pricelist & Image Thumbnails Selected life drawings and prints are still available for purchase.
"What does it mean to be human? How does our physical form enable our health and our interactions with our environment and others? How do various philosophies and cultures interpret the human experience? How does imposing external boundaries and artificial systems mould and restrict our well-being? What is it that creates meaning in our lives? How do we communicate within and beyond our bodies?
The exhibition BODY LANGUAGE enabled us to discuss and explore these and more questions, as it showcased the artworks of artist, physiotherapist and medical illustrator Kathryn Skelsey.
Kathryn Skelsey combined her interest in medical science with her skill in life drawing and watercolour painting to create this collection of beautiful figurative artworks.
This exhibition traced an illuminating and inspiring path from her early life drawings, through her academic conceptual explorations to her current medical illustration career.
BODY LANGUAGE examined the essence of being human, and the messages that we give out and receive; to care, learn, influence and communicate."
Exhibition Opening:
Date: Saturday 4 April 2009 Time: 1pm - 3pm
Exhibition Dates:
4 - 30 April 2009
Venue:
Dragon's Lair Gallery
Hurstville City Museum and Gallery
14 MacMahon Street
Hurstville NSW 2220
Museum Hours:
Tuesday - Thursday: 10am - 4pm, or by appointment.
1st Saturday of the month: 10am - 3pm, i.e. 4th April only. NB.The Gallery was not open on the 4th Saturday, as is usually scheduled for other exhibitions, as it was 25th April - Anzac Day.
Curator: Serena Manwaring
Tel: 02 9330 6444
Fax: 02 9330 6440
Email: museumgallery@hurstville.nsw.gov.au
Website: www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/museum
Images and Pricelist
2008 - 27th June to 24th August
"WINTER COLLABORATIVE" Exhibition, FAIRVIEW ARTSPACE, 6 Henry Lawson Drive (cnr Cassilis Rd), Mudgee. Ph: 0438 242 872 Email: fairview_artspace@bigpond.com.au www.fairviewartspace.com
Explorations of THE HUMAN FORM AND LIFE DRAWING by Kathryn Skelsey. In association with artists Don Elliott (Still Life & Landscape), and Bruce Holmes (Landscape).
"External Rotation" "Intransection"
Artist's Statement "Human anatomy & biology, the body's interactions with the mind and emotions, and the care of them all, have long been a source of fascination to me...These sketches represent the impact that life-drawing has had on my subsequent conceptual and illustrative creativity ......" More: PDF I Word
Exhibition Poster
Fairview ArtSpace - Website www.fairviewartspace.com
"Visit Mudgee Region" Website - Fairview ArtSpace Listing
2006 - CoFA06 Annual Exhibition - 29 Nov - 13 Dec The annual showcase of graduates from the College of Fine Arts (UNSW). Online Catalogue I Invitation I CoFA Paddington Campus Map
2005 - The Art of Scientific Visualisation - An online General Education subject offered through the College of Fine Arts (UNSW). The subject required that participants employ their research, digital imaging and collaborative skills to produce team projects. These projects progressively explored the impact of medical imaging technologies on artistic practice throughout history. The website that showcased the results of these projects is no longer publicly available online. However the system that supported the technology for this subject can be found at Omnium (based at CoFA). Past online subjects have been archived by their service. http://omnium.net.au/studio
1998 - Origins - The debut exhibition of various second year Bachelor of Fine Arts students from the College of Fine Arts. Initiated and curated by Kathryn Skelsey. Exhibition Card: (1.3MB)http://www.kathrynskelsey.com/events/past/1998_Origins_Card_KSkelsey.pdf
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EVENTS of GENERAL INTEREST
2008, 30th May to 1st June - PMA Australia 2008 Imaging Technology Show, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Southbank , Brisbane http://www.pmaaustralia.com.au/
2007 - Australia's Creative Diaspora: Photographed by Nathalie Latham National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (4 May - 1 July) - A collection of photographic portraits of artists who have chosen to live and pursue their artistic careers in various cities outside Australia. "Driven by an autobiographical impulse, Nathalie Latham's photographing of others can be seen as an effort to acknowledge the scope of the current Australian artistic diaspora. Her portraits therefore have a double edge, being both celebratory pictures of courageous Australians going out there into the unknown, and melancholic pictures of loss, of the loss of another generation of young Australian artistic talent drawn to the lure of elsewhere." http://www.portrait.gov.au/static/Nathalie%20Latham.php
2007 - Struck - An exhibition held at the Art Gallery of NSW, 8 February - 22 March, by Michele Barker and Anna Munster (CoFA Lecturers). A multi-channel video and sound installation that critically addressed the complexities of being diagnosed with a neurological disease. http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/2007/struck
2006 - New Constellations: Art, Science and Society - An international conference held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 17-19 March 2006, which explored the intersections between art and science in contemporary culture. http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=14&content_id=1842