Irene Wellm

Irene Wellm is an Australian artist recognised as a past winner of the Darebin La Trobe Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Prize. Her artistic practice frequently focuses on painting to explore themes of nature, myths, and fairy tales, with work often described as evoking dream-like psychological realms representing a theatre of mystery. Wellm completed her MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia, in 2001. She has exhibited extensively for over 45 years in her homeland, and for several years in Leipzig, Germany during multiple residencies at the Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) (2012-14). In 2012 she was the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts New Works Grant, and in 2014 the Visual Arts Travel Fund for an exhibition in Leipzig. Her work is in public and private collections in Australia, the United States, Germany and Switzerland. For more information:  https://irenewellm.com/