ABOUT SKYE GELLMANN
Skye Gellmann (AU, 1985) works with the body under pressure – across performance, photography and the moving image. Movement emerges through constraint, risk, and recalibration, as the body negotiates physical, material and environmental conditions. Actions unfold over time, producing a physical language that resists resolution, virtuosity, and fixed form.
After graduating from NICA (2006), they went on to create performance works – Scattered Tacks (2008), Asleep in a Secret (2009), Mothlight (2010), Blindscape (2012), Snow (2014), Bodies Over Bitumen (2015), End Grain (JP, 2017), Subjective Spectacle (2019), Without a Body (2022), Body Fiction (2023), Heels/Glass (2025) –
Winning some of Australia’s most celebrated awards, including 2 Greenroom Awards and 7 awards at Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney Fringe Festivals.
Skye’s work has played at festivals and venues including – Noorderzon Performing Arts (NL, 2009), Brisbane Powerhouse (2009), Artshouse (2010), PACT (2010, 2012), Stockholm Fringe (SW, 2011, 2014), The Judith Wright Arts Centre (2008, 2009, 2011), La Boite (2012), Junction Arts Festival (2012), Metro Arts (2010, 2011, 2020), Darwin Festival (2017), Sidesault Festival (2019), Next Wave Festival (2012), MCA (2017), & North Melbourne Meat Market (2010, 2012, 2018) – to name a few.
Skye’s photography and film work has been exhibited in galleries and publications including Un-Magazine (Mag cover + article, 2016), MCA Artbar (Group, 2016), Runway Experimental Arts (Mag, 2018), Sidesault Festival (Group, 2019), Botanical Mechanics (Group, 2019), Rewind II (Mag, 2020), Goodspace Gallery (Solo, 2020), Machine Hall (Group, 2025), Chrissie Cotter Gallery (Group, 2025), and was a finalist in the Inner West Urban Photography Competition, receiving commendation (2020).
Collaboratively, Skye has worked alongside companies and individuals such as Branch Nebula, Erth Visual & Physical, Daniel Santangeli, Gareth Hart, Circa, Circus Oz and Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre.
Currently, Skye is Associate Artist at Branch Nebula (2026).
2x Greenroom Award recipient for their full-length works: Bodies Over Bitumen (2016) & End Grain (2019)
Photography, feature: Colin Page
Second photo: Kim Brewster
last updated: 13/02/2026