Courtney McClelland

Artist Profile

Courtney McClelland is an emerging artist, interested in translating the way humans interact with each other by painting emotive, amorphous scenes.

Courtney is based on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. She engages with a variety of paint media, using paint stains to generate bodily compositions that she layers using both thick textural marks and soft glazes into large, amorphous scenes. Her often large-scale paintings negotiate between figuration and abstraction. Creating impressions of bodies in spaces, her works step into a liminal, psychological space that are a response to both the paint on the surface and the social conditions around her, responding to themes of social ritual, intimacy and community.

Career Highlights

• My Graduate exhibition at the National Art School
• Being awarded an exhibition at Australian Galleries
• Moving into my first studio