Ileigh Hellier

ARTIST STATEMENT

Ileigh’s work explores the tension between the natural world around her and her inner world of dreams. Suns, moons, trees and clouds all feature as motifs in her work amidst abstracted landscapes. She captures liminal times of day with gradient skies. Having always lived near the ocean, headlands and horizons are prominent features in her work too. Ileigh’s work dances between being representational and abstract and quite often both.

BIO

Ileigh Hellier is an artist from Mulubinba (Newcastle), NSW, now living in Nipaluna (Hobart) TAS. Ileigh is primarily a painter although she works in a range of other mediums including printmaking, ceramics and sculpture.

Ileigh has received commended awards in both the Jacaranda Drawing Prize in 2022 and The John Glover Prize in 2020. Her work is held in both public and private collections.