Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_

Celina Lei's Latest Articles

AGNSW Time-based Art Conservator, Lisa Mansfield. Photo: Supplied. A middle-aged figure with a curly pixie cut, bright smile, wearing a black shirt and white dots, rendered in black and white against a dark blue solid colour background. The text ‘so you want my arts job?’ is in bold white font to their left.
Career Advice

So you want my arts job: Time-Based Art Conservator

AGNSW Time-Based Art Conservator, Lisa Mansfield, shares how they embarked on this career, its most exciting aspects and why digital…

Celina Lei

Apr 21, 2024
2022 JADA Exhibition at Grafton Regional Gallery. Photo: Melting Wax Photography. People inside a gallery space with white walls and grey floor. Different works of varying scales are hung, while closest to the viewer is a paper-based work enclosed in a glass display.
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$40,000 drawing prize with local history

Grafton Regional Gallery’s Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award is built on a 36-year history with cash prizes to champion drawing excellence.

Celina Lei

Apr 21, 2024
Works shown as part of ‘LOEWE Crafted World’ at Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Ceramic chestnut roasters by Laia Arqueros. Photo: ArtsHub. A playful pair of ceramic chestnut roasters with eyes and a tongue poking out. It’s placed on a large exhibition platform alongside other objects on display.
Features

Postcard from Shanghai

From a full-scale biennale to retail galleries, here’s a rundown of the arts and cultural attractions in Shanghai.

Celina Lei

Apr 19, 2024
'Nina Sanadze', installation view at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia'. Photo: ArtsHub. In a gallery space with grey walls and tiled floors there are several large installations, including anti-terror barriers that appear like concrete spheres and rectangular blocks, scatters of monuments and sculptures.
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Exhibition review: Nina Sanadze, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

A succinct but multilayered survey of an artist who challenges history and perception.

Celina Lei

Apr 18, 2024
Bundanon Artist in Residence program open for applications. Image: 2023 Bundanon resident, Yandell Walton, 'Portrait Bundanon', 2023. Photo: Jodie Whalen. A woman with blond hair in a dark and slightly creepy outdoor landscape, holding a green light to her face.
News

Opportunities and awards

NGA announces Sculpture Garden Design Competition, plus winners of QMusic scholarships, finalists of ABR Calibre Essay Prize, and more!

Celina Lei

Apr 17, 2024
L-R: Fashion designer Irene Robinson, CIAF Artistic Director Francoise Lane, and CIAF curatorial associate Teho Ropeyarn celebrate the program launch of CIAF's 15th anniversary season. Assorted artworks by the artists from Wik & Kugu Art Centre. Photo: Supplied. Robinson is a woman with short grey hair wearing a black dress with a large necklace that has pompoms attached to it. Lane is a woman with curly grey hair, a warm smile, holding a carved crocodile artwork. Ropeyarn is a man with dark brown hair and a trimmed beard, kneeling beside two more wooden carved artworks, including another crocodile and a dog. The three of them are posed in a light-filled, outdoor space.
News

Country Speaking at Indigenous art fair's 15th anniversary

The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair heralds its 15th year with anniversary celebrations unveiled.

Celina Lei

Apr 16, 2024
An elderly Japanese woman with bright red hair sits among multicoloured wall hangings and artworks.
News

Yayoi Kusama next up for 2024 NGV summer exhibition

Melbourne's first major retrospective of Japan's famed nonagenarian artist is heading to the NGV next summer.

Celina Lei

Apr 15, 2024
The front facade of REDSEA Gallery in Margaret River, housed inside a century-old building. Photo: Supplied. A black shed-like building taken from the outside. Leading up into the space is a long ramp with shrubs at the front. Inside the space are paintings showing through the gallery windows on both sides.
News

A plethora of gallery activities

New galleries, reopenings and pop-ups, plus an Australian gallery to exhibit First Nations art in New York.

Celina Lei

Apr 12, 2024
Chair by Andrew Carvolth, who will be showing works as part of Craft Victoria’s Conscious Craft initiative. Photo: Supplied. A aluminium chair constructed out of seperate aluminium bars. It is placed against a green background next to a blue tool rack and lit brightly.
News

Conscious Craft takes the charge on sustainability

Craft Victoria will launch Conscious Craft aimed at spotlighting and championing innovative craft practices with sustainability in mind.

Celina Lei

Apr 11, 2024
Rikki Milera-Wilson and Amber Ahang. Photo: James Cubillo. Two dancers rehearsing inside a light filled room.
News

Opportunities and awards

Art award for youths, major commission opportunities, plus winners of WA Multicultural Awards and nominees of 2024 Queensland Music Awards.

Celina Lei

Apr 10, 2024
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