ABOUT SKYE GELLMANN
Skye Gellmann is a Sydney-based performance artist working across live performance and image-making. Their practice begins with physical constraints, unstable situations and problems that have to be worked through as they happen. These situations become a way of looking at how bodies are read, how meaning gets made, and what happens when reality doesn’t behave quite as expected.
Skye trained in circus at NICA, graduating in 2006. Across almost 20 years they have created a body of performance work including Scattered Tacks (2008), Asleep in a Secret (2009), Mothlight (2010), Blindscape (2012), Snow (2014), Bodies Over Bitumen (2015), End Grain (2017), Subjective Spectacle (2019), Without a Body (2022), Body Fiction (2023) and Glass / Heels (2024–ongoing).
Their work has been presented across Australia and internationally at festivals and venues including Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Stockholm Fringe, Next Wave, Darwin Festival, Arts House, PACT, Brisbane Powerhouse, Metro Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and North Melbourne Meat Market.
Alongside performance, Gellmann works with photography and moving image. Their image-based work has appeared in exhibitions and publications including Un Magazine, Runway Experimental Art, MCA ARTBAR, Goodspace Gallery, Machine Hall and Chrissie Cotter Gallery.
Skye has received two Green Room Awards and seven awards across the Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney Fringe Festivals. They have worked collaboratively with artists and companies including Branch Nebula, Erth Visual & Physical, Circa, Circus Oz, Gareth Hart and Daniel Santangeli.
In 2026 they are an Associate Artist with Branch Nebula, developing Glass / Heels alongside the collaborative work How Not to Climb a Mountain.
2x Greenroom Award recipient for their full-length works: Bodies Over Bitumen (2016) & End Grain (2019)
Photography, feature: Joseph Mayers
last updated: 21/08/2026