At an artist talk I did recently, a number of people in the audience asked why I didn’t include my encounter stories with works posted on this website as a didactic. They felt the combination enriched their experience of my paintings. It’s always tricky for me to navigate sharing materials and narratives from my process […]
A huge thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition at Metro Arts Brisbane! Met some fantastic people & artists, had some intense passionate conversations, and am left feeling a little more hopeful about our capacity to act on climate and extinction issues… Here’s some install shots for those of you looking from afar! Thanks […]
Life on Earth: Selected Fieldtrip Encounters with Wild Species (2011-2019), opens this World Environment Day, Wednesday 5 June 2019, 6-8pm at Metro Arts Brisbane. Artist talk: Saturday 15th June, 3pm. My show ‘Life on Earth’ is a labour of love, and reveals selected personal encounters with threatened, endangered and extinct species experienced during global fieldtrips […]
Image: Emma Lindsay, process detail for Borderlines, made at the Sonoran artist Residency, in Ajo, Arizona 2018. #sonorandesertinn
Save the date… Opening on World Environment Day 2019: LIFE ON EARTH JUNE 5-15, 2019 | METRO ARTS Brisbane, Australia. Supported by THE DEAN COLLECTION. My next solo show Life on Earth recreates selected intense moments and memories with wild and often threatened species, encountered during global fieldtrips to desert, Arctic, reef and museum sites between 2011-2018. […]
Very happy and honoured to be one of the first 4 residents selected for the Sonoran Arts Residency Program in Fall 2018, being held in Ajo, Arizona. Looking forward to working alongside fellow residency artist Gregory Spaid, amongst the Ajo & regional arts community, and experiencing the wilds of the Sonoran Desert … 🌵🦂🐍 ・・・ […]
‘This Wild Song X Town Hall Gallery’ exhibition, a project by photographer Ilona Nelson, opens 1 September 2018, 2-4pm, Town Hall Gallery, in Hawthorn, Melbourne. Three of my GBR project paintings will be available for sale amongst the work and portraits of some great fellow Australian women artists. Town Hall event details: This Wild Song […]
Woke up recently to the incredible news that I’ve been chosen as one of twenty artists for the inaugural The Dean Collection #TDC20 St(Art)Up grant opportunity, out of over 5000+ global applicants. TDC20 is the brainchild of the husband/wife art collector team Swizz Beatz (a.k.a. Kasseem Dean) & Alicia Keys, whose love of music and […]
The Great Barrier Reef | Anthropocene Project exhibition has now finished at Artspace Mackay and the paintings and photographs from the show are now available on the website. The Great Barrier Reef | Anthropocene Project was created in response to an invitation by Artspace Mackay Director Julie Skate to undertake an artist residency and create […]
Very happy to announce that my work ‘Hunter/hunted (meerkat + chipmunk)’ will be showing in Singapore soon as part of the ‘This Wild Song’ exhibition project! Ilona Nelson’s ‘This Wild Song’ project is documenting the many talented Australian women artists working in the field today, creating unique portraits of each artist that reflect their art […]
18 Nov 2017: Cultural Flanerie’s latest blog post offering on current delights of the art world delves into the ‘Great Barrier Reef |Anthropocene Project’. ‘For Australia in particular, animal extinction is particularly pertinent given almost 2000 of our unique species have been identified by the Australian Government as being at risk, on top of approximately […]
The last week passed in a blur, with the ‘Great Barrier Reef | Anthropocene Project’ opening at Artspace Mackay on the 9th November, and |not|fair| Melbourne opening on the 11th! Artspace Mackay Had the pleasure of meeting artists Davida Allen and the current artists in residence Clara Adolph and Samuel Tupuo at the opening, as […]
Emma Lindsay’s Great Barrier Reef | Anthropocene Project opens 9 November 2017 at Artspace Mackay- please see attached invite for details to RSVP. Please feel free to share! x
Please to announce that 4 paintings will be shown as part of |notfair| Melbourne in November! Opening event: Saturday 11 November 3-8pm at 12 James St Windsor, Melbourne. All welcome! The large painting Extinct Dodo will be on show alongside 3 new small extinct bird paintings. Collectors please note, all works are framed, and will be […]
Save the date: The ‘Great Barrier Reef | Anthropocene Project (Art + Science species encounters on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef + Wet Tropics coastal regions)’ exhibition opens at Artspace Mackay 9 November 2017. Exhibiting until 11 February 2018. PRESS RELEASE (31 October 2017) Image: Emma Lindsay 2017 ‘Crown of Thorns starfish, Lizard Island Research Station’, oil […]
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