Calliste Lelliott – portfolio
Contact the artist
digicalix@pm.me
Exhibition information
This exhibition is dedicated to women with main character energy: what they carry, emotional burdens, states of mind, the heaviness and lightness of being. These portraits tend to have main character energy – built in layers, acrylic worked over with pencil, pen, and crayon, paper scraps pressed into the surface until something both true and fantastical starts to emerge.
Colour is where my heart sings: bright, bold, with combinations that sit somewhere between jarring and complementary. I often build up layers and fragments because that is how experience accumulates, never quite finished and often rough around the edges.
I’m a big advocate for mental health issues and 50% of profits from the sale of artworks during Artweeks will be donated to the charity MIND.
Exhbiting in the garage as part of this group show are fellow artists Oliver Skertchly (lighting) and Andrew Coram (sculpture).
Opening days/times: Sat 16 – Sun 17 May; Sat 23 Sun 24 May (12-6pm); Mon 25 May (12-5pm)
Artist information
I returned to painting as my first passion after studying film production and working as a media producer, and I brought some of that world with me: how light constructs a face, how a single frame can carry emotional weight, and something about the drama of it all. This is my 5th time exhibiting at artweeks and a brand new show quite different from anything I’ve done before.
I work from a small desk squeezed into a corner of my home office, materials spread in every direction, no space left unfilled. I’m grateful to have this dedicated area but one day I dream of studio/whole room dedicated to art practice.
Calliste Lelliott
