Skye Gellmann

Skye Gellmann (they/them) b. 1985

Skye grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and started performing at the age of 10 with Cirkidz (The South Australian Circus Center). In 2003 they moved to Melbourne and studied at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), graduating in 2006.

Since 2007, Skye has created 9 full length performance works that have toured to stages and site specific context in Australia, Europe and Asia, including highlights: Noorderzon Performing Arts, Artshouse, Brisbane Powerhouse, La Boite, Junction Arts Festival, Metro Arts, Sidesault Festival, Hoopla Festival, The Judith Wright Center, PACT, Darwin Festival, Next Wave, North Melbourne Meat Market, and Awaji Art Circus.

Skye's work has gained recognition through various awards including:

• 2020 Inner West Urban Photography competition Finalist.
• 2019 Greenroom Award for End Grain (Contemporary Circus).
• 2018 Melbourne Fringe’s Best Original New Work for End Grain.
• 2015 Greenroom Award for Bodies Over Bitumen (Contemporary Circus).
• 2015 Greenroom Award Nomination for Bodies Over Bitumen (Site Specific work).
• 2015 Melbourne Fringe Best Experimental Performance for Bodies Over Bitumen.
• 2015 Greenroom Award Nomination for Snow (Contemporary Circus).
• 2011 Adelaide Fringe Best Circus for Mothlight.
• 2010 Sydney Fringe's Best Physical Theatre / Circus for Retinal Damage.
• 2008 Melbourne Fringe's Most Outstanding Production for Scattered Tacks.
• 2008 Melbourne Fringe's Best Circus for Scattered Tacks.

The past 7 years Skye has also exhibited photography in galleries and publications including Un-Magazine (cover + article), Rewind 2, & Runway Experimental Arts Mag, Goodspace Gallery, Sidesault Festival, and directed and mentored performance.

Currently Skye is performing High Performance Packing Tape with Branch Nebula, and also creating new performance and photography work.

Skye is based in Sydney on Gadigal Land.

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 "Skye hasn't merely stripped back the caked layers of circus, but turned it around and presented the result from the other side." ('Negative Circus' by Julian Orbach).

"His work is about as far from the gaudy extravaganzas of Cirque du Soleil as it's possible to get.. But few knew exactly how to describe the work." (John Bailey, M Magazine).

"..on the razors edge of a new kind of circus." (Richard Watts, Artshub).