Skye Gellmann is an artist living on Gadigal and Wangal land in Sydney, making experimental performance and image-based work. They build physical situations where bodies, materials and space can interfere with each other. Their work explores how strange reality already is.
They have been experimenting with circus as a limitless space since 2007.
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: Bodies Over Bitumen (2016), End Grain (2019)
Photography, feature: Joseph Mayers