‘For the Love of It’ - Matchbox Gallery November 2024

Multi-disciplined artist Kelangel KrE8z has her first solo exhibition in Yinnar, ‘For the Love of It’, aptly named for her love of creating. 

From canvas to cloth and beyond this artist loves experimenting.  “Colours lift my soul and the paints look so exciting I just cannot help but want to play with them!  From ink gel pen details to paint pours and glitter this current collection is also focused on human emotions and experiencing them. The poured canvases represent the natural lack of control of our emotions we have, and the mystery, beauty and vulnerability that creates part of our human experience. I could draw with precision or paint with a brush an exact detailed scene, but with the pouring technique I felt that doing it actually made it real, the exciting feeling to not have full control and power over my images and then figure it out.  I used the colours to represent my relationships with different areas of nature as inspirations too.” 

Also featuring in the exhibition are photography, fashion, and music videos created with her own original music.

Born and raised on a farm in Yinnar the artist has lived and created art and music in Melbourne, Sydney, Byron and the Hinterland and the Gold Coast.

During the pandemic in 2021 she returned to Australia after 16 years of living in Detroit, Michigan USA where all of her creativity was able to really bloom. She had gained deeper confidence in herself from the move overseas, along with love and support of other amazing artists and people from whom she learned and with whom she collaborated on many amazing projects.  Her experiences included teaching youth in schools, performing in nightclubs and concerts, teaching painting classes and acting in live theatre. She also had the opportunity to study for a music technology degree at a 150yr old University in a 100 year old music program. 

She has now returned to her home town to have her children experience Australian life and their family here and bring some new fresh flavours to the area she was raised in.

The exhibition ‘For the Love of It’ will be at The Matchbox Gallery, Main Street, Yinnar from November 23 to December 15.