Elisabeth established her professional visual arts practice in the year 2000 and has since showcased her works through solo exhibitions and collaborated shows in Australia, USA, and Austria. In 2009, she became an active member of One+2 Artist Gallery and Studios in Sydney. Elisabeth’s art, which abstractly captures body movement and music, is a blend of various media such as oil, watercolor, pastel, ink, and mixed media. She regularly displays her works in Viennese galleries and festivals, and her current artworks are available on various online galleries. Elisabeth’s career highlights include a successful solo exhibition titled “Harbour City Tones and Colours” at Salerno Gallery in Sydney, and a series of solo and group shows at Contemplor Galerie and Reinlgalerie in Vienna, as well as the Historisches Volksmuseum Konstante Art Fair in Vienna. A unique aspect of her exhibitions is the incorporation of performance elements. She works both independently and on commission.
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You are warmly invited to Are You Showing Symptoms?
Produced entirely in-house, Are You Showing Symptoms? is a culmination of our efforts to date, addressing a plethora of issues around the pandemic from 01.08.20 – 31.07.21. Music, texts, clarinets, vocals, sculptures, and watercolor/ink/oil paintings, made during the pandemic about the pandemic come together in this provocative multimedia project. Please share this information with anyone you think who might have an interest in this dynamic short film.
Elisabeth and John’s Halloween Special. Featuring WORLD PREMIERE and of short film Scant Signs of Encouraging Polarisation 1/A by John Plankenhorn and Elisabeth Kelvin, Vienna.
Are You Showing Symptoms?WORLD PREMIERE of the short film in five episodes by John Plankenhorn and Elisabeth Kelvin. Commissioned by & Dedicated to Anthony Ackerman, USA
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Art and Music Lovers! Reinlgalerie in Vienna is a delightful space for the enjoyment of both! I am grateful for the opportunity to work with the wonderful curators and artists Susanne and Michael Zeiner. It has been such a pleasure to share my paintings and small sculptures since 2017! Opening night, Vernissage, is a joyful occasion. While the show runs, workshops and discussions are scheduled. As is customary that the final event, the Finissage, of each exhibition celebrates the end of a successful collaboration. Whenever possible, I combine live music with my art shows and visual art in my performances. It is part of a shared network of ideas. I play what I see and paint what I hear. Reinlgalerie is the perfect place to explore the arts and it has become a micro-hub of creative thinkers who take pleasure in inquisitive and thoughtful company.
Reinl Galerie, Vienna 2019
Since many of you are unable to travel to Vienna, particularly in these challenging times, I will continue to share more thoughts and images from as well as exhibitions dates on my Events Pages as they occur! Meanwhile you can always pick up some original contemporary art, created in Vienna, from my online galleries! Support local living artists. Great gifts!
A naked figure in a room. I look, I sketch, I look again. What is my point? A glimpse of clarity or an accumulated crystalization? What begins as a charcoal line on a smudged sketchpad during a life drawing session, gives impulse to a fulsome experience that alters my creative course. This is arrival and breakout, inspiration and challenge. Generating a plethora of images, new questions, and yielding moments of satisfaction, Motive Evolving emerges.
When I see the model posing, I see movement. After quickly depicting the model’s breath, a twitching muscle, the self-conscious tummy-tuck, quivering fleshy bits, and moistness, these vulnerable, gorgeous, creative fragments evolve from sketching to painting.
As beautiful or ugly as the human form is seen, the manifestation of its resilience is awesome. How do digestion and respiratory systems collaborate? How do eyes, ears, nose, and mouth synthesize in harmony or dissonance? How does genitalia do its sexy job when feces is a visitor? The awareness of a fine-line walk at this point, between harnessing creative obsession and falling into mere figurative representation, leads to an anatomical exploration from an aesthetic perspective. Notebooks overflow, questioning form and function, color and texture, viscosity, anecdotes, and, naturally, sketches. Piles of sketches.
Working with pens, pencils, pastels, potatoes, oil, acrylics, ink, watercolor, paper, beads, modeling clay, food, anything safe and possible, a body of work forms. (Insert awareness of pun here.) These include hundreds of sketches, over 20 small to medium-sized paintings, several large paintings including two-meter works on canvas, palm-sized sculptures, paper collages, and printed products such as masks and mugs. (Insert dark side music here.)
Key to Motive Evolving is the concept of a series. Here lies the freedom to get stuck into it, to race, waver, hesitate, and to take a form to its point of bitter-endedness. Plunging down color theory rabbit holes and soaring across cultural landscapes, I create as if no one is watching, but practise as if they are. Within the realms of my art and music experience, more questions about motives, themes, developments, recurrences, resonances, and tangents ensue. One body part leading to another. Around 2011, within my artists’ community, the series was being described as Corporeal Abstraction.
Meanwhile, an irksome question that others feel compelled to ask is, “Have you sold anything?” Sometimes, I respond by twirling around to the soggy beat of commercial chatter as I teeter on the rope of truth. However, thank you for asking and for your past, present, and future support for contemporary artists. It is with satisfaction that Motive Evolving may be described as a solid success. From the model’s pose in a dusty art room, through to the creative impulse and multiple sales, the link is clear. How fortunate that I do practice since the world, or at least the better bits of it, is watching after all! (Insert awesome resilience “great do more” badge here.)
Commissions are welcomed. All projects and ideas, regardless of size, are considered. Let’s put on our finger-dancing shoes and get into some serious tapping!
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An artist anticipates that beautiful yet fragile moment when an art lover falls for her painting. Beautiful because it is so human. The artist draws the art which draws the viewer into its vibrant realm. Fragile because the moment is rare, often fleeting, and full of loaded questions. Can I afford it? What will the neighbors think? Where will we put it? How valuable will it be in the future? Is anyone else in love with a painting here? Can I imagine it in my living room? Is it love or limerence? Let your eyes explore the answer.
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Art gives when you ask it to give. To buy an original work of art has numerous desirable resonances. Though it may be historically referential and saturated with shared distinctions, art is new and unique. When buying a work of art, we engage in questioning the artistic value of authenticity.
The artist is paid when a work is sold. Maybe not much and seldom enough, but at least she is valued at the standard value measurement: money.
“Money dignifies what is frivolous if not paid for.”
(Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own)
Through buying art the artist can then make more art.
“The thing that always worried me about art for art’s sake, right from the beginning, was making these precious objects for special people… I still haven’t found the answer. I’ve just had to live with it.”
(Robert Klippel: interviewed by Rosemary Madigan)
Imagine the thrill! You have a freshly purchased artwork that provides a series of new experiences created out of one visual stimulus. Does the art hold your interest? Is it a perceptive composition? Does it hold elements of play and curiosity within its realm? Could it challenge and enthuse? Will it reveal a time/space relationship or create new thought pathways? Art is not just bought and consumed. It is, as they say, a game-changer. Philosopher Daniel Dennett uses a term intuition pump. Owning art is living amongst art and the capacity to slough off rusty, dusty thoughts and grow new ones is in the human experience defined by excitement. The bought art is allowed time to be looked at and into.
“When it is authentic art, you go into it, unlike kitsch, which goes into you.”
(Walter Benjamin, Illuminations)
Visit a gallery and encounter the art. So much to see and never enough time! Closing hours, crowded rooms, and other art and non-art related activities can dampen the experience of developing a relationship with an artwork in a museum. At home, walk past, sit down or have sex in front of, clean around, and share with friends your art. Live with a work of art, unblocked. Art thrives in an intimate environment. It withers when neglected. What better way encourages today’s aesthetic experience to flourish than to buy my painting for yourself or for someone you love? To acquire an artwork is to value current events expressionism. Artists reflect the time, the zeitgeist.
“Art means New Art.”
(Arnold Schoenberg, Style and Idea)
What if the art turns out to be inferior or loses its ability to challenge and interest? Buy another! When placed in proximity artworks will chat with one another. Again, the nearness of each to the other will provide more than double the aesthetic experience. Placed alone, alternating in the space, the implied visual discussion will continue.
Owning art celebrates the artist’s skills and abilities. Not only does she have knowledge, experience, patience, courage, intelligence, time management, integrity, inquisitiveness, perceptive analysis of situations, cooperation, but also spatial perception, environmental sensitivity, fine motor skills, social awareness, and an ability to make something, out of nothing. Physicists present a strong case to the world that nothing is really something and artists manifest this concept. Ask an artist whence their idea for a work comes. You can contribute to the artist expanding her skills through your purchase of this something.
Supporting a friend, love, or acquaintance wants to acquire an artwork by a living artist, also supports the artist. The dream is to see my art bought, displayed, viewed, and discussed. Rinse and repeat.
Art can give the best thing to everyone. Art can change our frame of mind. Art. Make it by buying it.
About the artist
Abstraction in Elisabeth’s art is informed by her professional experience of music performance and composition. Personal – and historical – ideas regarding the differences and shared distinctions of aural and visual media are addressed, explored, and developed in each new work.
Please contact Elisabeth for the acquisition and commission of works.
These online art galleries and music realms are elegant to navigate and designed to suit every budget. Browse and enjoy these new collections of fine art and music. You may fall in love. Immersion and exploration welcome!
Elisabeth Kelvin 