| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Nicole Galellis’ large-scale abstract works are featured at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women and at the Borden Park pavilion in Edmonton. Her layered works are bright and bold with influences ranging from graffiti to wallpaper, textiles, ceramics and floral patterns. In Drawn Outside at the Art Gallery of Alberta in 2011, Galellis collaborated with other artists and musicians to explore how artists are inspired by the natural world. She offered a variety of skill-building activities for visitors to the Gallery to investigate art-making while learning about patterns, images and objects found in their natural world.
Galellis graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in painting and drawing, after completing the first two years of her degree, majoring in Art and Design, at the University of Alberta in 2000. Gallelis has had solo exhibitions at the Steppes Gallery, (2008), the Fringe Gallery (2007) and the Harcourt House Gallery (2008) all in Edmonton, AB. She has taught at Art Gallery of Alberta, Harcourt House Gallery, and the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts as an art educator. |