Heather Shain Ellyard was born in 1939 in Boston, USA, and migrated to Australia in 1970. She lived in Canberra and Adelaide before moving to Melbourne. Although a full-time professional artist she has also been an art reviewer, a writer and a part-time lecturer at art schools. She has participated in 45 group shows and has held 21 solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra. Her work is in many public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, the Jewish Museum of Australia, the Office of the Premier of South Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Monash Medical Centre and the Commonwealth Parliament House Collection.
Heather Ellyard’s work deals with the balance between destruction and vitality. She combines image and text and is concerned as much with glimpses and overlays of commentary as with paint itself, working with both the sensory and the cerebral.
- Writers:
- Luba Bilu
- Date written:
- 2011
- Last updated:
- 2011
