Elisabeth Kelvin’s creative practice blends the visual with the aural – she paints what she hears and plays what she sees. Abstraction in Elisabeth's art is informed by her professional experience of music performance. Personal - and historical - ideas regarding the differences and shared distinctions of aural and visual media are addressed, explored, and developed in each new work.
Elisabeth launched her visual arts practice in 2000, and has staged solo exhibitions and participated in collaborative shows in Australia and Austria. She became an active member of One+2 Artist Studios, Sydney in 2009. Her visual arts work, abstractions of body movement and music, encompasses a range of media including oil, watercolour, pastel, ink and mixtures. She exhibits her art at galleries and festivals and business. Recent career highlights include a well-received solo exhibition, Harbour City Tones and Colours, at Salerno Gallery (Sydney), and a series of solo and group shows in Galerie Contemplor, GalerieTakt, Reinl Galerie, and in grand palatial halls such as Historisches Volksmuseum (Konstante Art Fair, Vienna) or intimate wine bars like Vinotek Rochus. Her visual arts exhibitions include performance art elements as she plays her paintings. In May, Elisabeth was invited to participate in a collaborative social media project with the new international arts group REACT.