THE COLOUR BETWEEN
Through the art and intuition of Llewellyn Skye
EGW LUXURY MAGAZINE | WINTER 2025
FEATURE | THE ART OF LIFE
By EGW Luxury Editorial Staff
There are artists who paint with brush and pigment — and then there are artists who move with the memory of something older, something cellular. Skye is the latter.
Known for her evocative abstractions that pulse with emotional resonance, Llewellyn Skye—or simply “Skye” as she signs her works—has long held a place among Australia’s most expressive contemporary voices. But her art cannot be contained to canvas alone. It is a lived experience, a ritual, a rewilding.
This past year has marked a thrilling evolution in her creative journey, one that has seen her step into the role of curator with The Colour Between, a group exhibition at Brisbane’s Revival Art & Design. Gathering artists from diverse paths, Skye created a space that honored not just artwork, but the emotional undercurrents that inform it—the tension and tenderness of what lives between joy and ache, between seen and felt. It was an offering, a gathering, a reclamation.
“I wanted to explore the emotional spaces we rarely articulate,” Skye shares. “That liminal place of transition, the in-between.” This curatorial endeavor marked not just a professional milestone, but a mirror of her own practice—fluid, intuitive, and rooted in connection.
At the same time, Skye is immersing herself in postgraduate study at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art and Design, expanding her exploration of medium, memory, and conceptual narrative. From sculpture to installation, she is unearthing new layers of artistic expression and redefining what it means to create in conversation with the body and the earth.
What makes Skye’s work so arresting is its physicality. Her materials — paint, soil, fabric, even heirloom jewellery and wild flora — are not mere tools, but co-conspirators. She listens to them, moves with them, allows them to tell their stories. Each layer is a breath, each texture a trace. The result is a visceral language of gesture and grace, where feminine identity becomes both subject and presence, soft and untamed.
Her studio, located on Australia’s Gold Coast, is more than a workspace — it’s an altar to process. Here, Skye prepares for two upcoming solo exhibitions: one in Sydney with Curatorial+Co (April), and another in Melbourne with Lennox St Gallery (November). Both shows will continue her exploration of the feminine, of memory, and the places where the mind forgets but the body still remembers.
With over 60 exhibitions to her name — including 12 solo shows and residencies in New York and Italy — Skye’s artistic voice is anything but quiet. She has garnered awards from Fenton & Fenton and the ALA Abstract Artist Award, been commended by the John Olsen Drawing Prize, and her works are held in collections across continents. Still, what sets her apart is not accolades but authenticity.
Skye paints as though every stroke is a memory unfolding, every canvas a threshold. Her art is not a product—it is presence.
In her words, “Each work becomes an offering or altar, a quiet conversation across generations.”
To experience her work is to be reminded of what is sacred in the everyday — the soil on our hands, the wind on our skin, the pulse beneath it all. She invites us to return to the wild feminine, to the shared heartbeat of creation itself.
“The Colour Between explores the threshold spaces where colour becomes more than surface, a language, a feeling, a bridge between the seen and unseen. As both artist and curator, I am drawn to these liminal zones, where memory collides with material, where silence can be made visible, and where creation is inseparable from curation.”
— Skye Llewellyn
Explore the world of Skye:
🌿 llewellynskye.com.au
📸 @llewellynskye.studio.