Carley Cornelissen

Carley Cornelissen was born and raised in country Victoria, Australia before moving to Melbourne to study fine arts, majoring in painting, at RMIT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. After comple­tion of her degree and extensive travel she moved to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, where she currently works out of a studio in Buderim.

Since moving to Queensland Carley has participated in group shows in Australia as well as London, Stockholm, Brussels, Milan, Toronto, Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore. She was received enthusiastically in Lon­don where her work has sold out for the past two years. Carley has been a finalist in several competitions including the Gold Coast Art Prize, the Leithbridge 10,000 Award and was highly commended at the Noosa Art Award.

Carley likes to use her work to get people to think about how their actions affect the environment. Her other passion has been sourcing recycled frames and surfaces for reuse. Not only is she reducing the impact her practice has on the environment, she also loves that she is adding to the history of the frame and giving it a new life.