Bentinck Psalm

2017 oil on linen on board 122x177cm

Bathurst House

2013 charcoal on paper 25x33cm

Winter Gormans Hill Road

2020 oil on linen on board 105x122cm

Canola field

2019 oil on linen on board 30x40cm

Bathurst

2010 oil on board 30x40cm

Apples

2007 oil on board 23x25cm

Brilliant Street Cnr, Bathurst

2019 oil on board 30x35cm

Rachel Ellis

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Rachel Ellis studied at City Art Institute (now UNSW Art & Design) in Sydney and was later awarded the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship in 1997, which enabled her to study works of art in museums and galleries throughout Europe and the UK.

She undertook a three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris and participated in a Summer School at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. While working as an au pair in Italy, some years earlier, she attended life drawing classes at the International School of Art in Umbria, taught by artist Nicholas Carone, a founding member of the New York Studio School. These encounters were formative.

Rachel responds primarily from life to her immediate urban rural environment of Bathurst, where she has lived since 2001, but also it’s surrounds in central west NSW. ‘Rachel’s is largely an internalised vision of observable reality, heightened by spiritual belief, yet readily shareable and hence universal’ Hendrik Kolenberg, former Senior Curator of Prints Drawings and Watercolours at the AGNSW.

For Rachel, drawing and painting is about light and the relationships it reveals, beyond what we see in front of us. She values the observation of Bathurst architect Tony McBurney: ‘In human perception, light has the power to form and to dissolve and in this, we see the power of the creator’. For Rachel, ‘To draw and paint light is to confront the reality of what it is to be alive!’

Rachel’s work can be found in collections such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW Parliament House, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta and Macquarie Bank.

Exhibitions

Group exhibition

Inside/outside

29 January - 16 February 2019

Films

Rachel Ellis - Sustaining Light

Produced by Catherine Hunter Camera and editing by Bruce Inglis Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

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Solo exhibitions [selected]

2018
Rachel Ellis survey show Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2012
Paintings & Drawings King Street Gallery on William

2011
New Works Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2007
painting and drawing king street gallery on burton, Sydney

2005
Past and Present Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2002
Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2000
Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney

1997
Access Contemporary Art Gallery

1996
Access Contemporary Art Gallery

1994
Bare Gallery, Sydney

Group exhibitions [selected]

2021
Tree of Life: A testament to endurance S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

2020
Kedumba Drawing Award, Blue Mountains, NSW
Calleen Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra

2019
Paddington Art Prize Menzies Art Brands Gallery, Kensington, Sydney

2018
Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane Qld

2017
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, Parliament House, Sydney
Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW

2016
Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane Qld

2015
30 years 30 Artists Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Parliament House, Sydney
200×200 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane

2014
Kilgour Art Prize Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Parliament House, Sydney
Journeys West Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW

2013
Last but not Least King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Australian Drawing 20 years of the Dobell Drawing Prize touring Grafton
Regional Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, National Art School, Tweed River Art Gallery
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Parliament House, Sydney
Calleen Prize Cowra Regional Art Gallery NSW
Salon des Refuses S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize PLC Gallery
Looking Forward King Street Gallery on William

2012
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane, Qld
En Plein Air Painting Prize NSW Parliament House, Sydney
Dobell Drawing Prize [drawing acquired for permanent collection] Art Gallery of NSW

2011
Dobell Drawing Prize Art Gallery of NSW
Paddington Art Prize Menzies Art Brands Gallery, Kensington, Sydney
Calleen Prize Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Artbank, Australia
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
COFA, Uni of New South Wales
Condobolin Shire Council Chambers, NSW
Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Kedumba Collection, Blue Mts Grammar School, NSW
Mosman Council Chambers
Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award Collection
Macquarie Bank, Australia
PLC Croydon, Sydney
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta
Tara Anglican School for Girls, Sydney
University of Sydney Union
Union, University and Schools Club of Sydney
Waverley Woollahra Council, NSW
Wesley Art Foundation, Brisbane
University of Sydney Art Collection
NSW Parliament Art Collection