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

A dome like architectural structure with blue and neon pink lights projected throughout at night.
News

Dubai light festival welcomes Australian curator for inaugural edition

Former Curator and Festival Director of Light at Vivid Sydney joins the new Dhai Dubai light art festival to help…

Celina Lei

Jan 5, 2024
Immersive exhibition ‘130BPM: Soundtrack to a Revolution’ curated by Bertie Blackman to open at Qtopia Sydney in its new home. Image: 1985 Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, cropped with colour enhancement. Photo: William Yang. Large puppet-like pieces with vibrant colours dance in the dark with people holding them up from the bottom.
Features

New galleries and theatres to visit in 2024

From a power station's $100 million facelift to a museum for queer history, here are the top new cultural destinations…

Celina Lei

Jan 5, 2024
‘John Nixon—Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints’ installation view at Geelong Gallery. Photo: ArtsHub. Exhibition space with white wall and timber floor, filled with prints and works on paper displayed on wooden tables.
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Exhibition review: John Nixon – Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints, Geelong Gallery

An expansive collection of prints by John Nixon reveals his philosophy about blurring the boundaries between art and life.

Celina Lei

Jan 4, 2024
Photo: Supplied. On the left is a black and white photo of Rodney James, a middle-aged man with light skin and light curly hair, wearing black rimmed glasses and a suite. He is shown from the shoulders up. The right is a cover of the book with a light brown background, a illustration of a man wearing a suit and the words ‘Alan McCulloch’s World of Art | LETTERS TO A CRITIC | Rodney James’.
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Book review: Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art, Rodney James

An invitation to know the artist, cartoonist and critic, Alan McCulloch, more intimately than through his writing alone.

Celina Lei

Jan 3, 2024
LISA GORMAN + MIRKA MORA, installation view at Warrnambool Art Gallery. Photo: Supplied. An exhibition space partitioned with orange, dark turquoise and pink sheer curtains. In front of the curtains hang embroideries by Mirka Mora and clothing by Gorman x Mirka.
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Exhibition review: LISA GORMAN + MIRKA MORA: To breathe with the rhythm of the heart, Warrnambool Art Gallery

A lyrical and symbiotic pairing of fashion design, sculptural installations, painting, embroideries and more by two Australian icons.

Celina Lei

Jan 3, 2024
‘John Meade: It’s Personal!’ installation view at McClelland Gallery. Photo: ArtsHub.
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Exhibition review: John Meade: It’s Personal!, McClelland Gallery

Humble in scale, but deliciously rich, John Meade’s solo exhibition plays on form and entices intimate viewing.

Celina Lei

Jan 3, 2024
Photo: Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash. A glass jar filled with fairy lights half burried into the sand at the beach against a setting sun.
News

Prizes and competitions to enter in 2024

A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing and publishing in the first…

Celina Lei

Jan 3, 2024
Finalist in 'Exit Art' exhibition 2023, Jasper Mules from The Essington School, NT. Photo: Supplied. Inside an artwork stockroom a figure with curly blond hair looks towards a 3D fashion garment on the mannequin. The garment appears to be a short dress made out of translucent, petal-like materials that is cream in colour. The figure is smiling, wearing glasses and a colourful patterned shirt with jeans.
News

Opportunities and awards

International art award in Taiwan, a call-out for a Feminist Historian in Residence, plus winners of the Emerging Playwright Commission…

Celina Lei

Dec 20, 2023
Hamilton Gallery Director Joshua White next to 'Lucretia' by Artemisia Gentileschi, installation view in Emerging From Darkness: Faith, Emotion and The Body in the Baroque at Hamilton Gallery. Photo: Madi Whyte. A figure with short brown hair, glasses and brown beard wearing a collared shirt and blazer stands next to a large painting depicting a women, half nude, sitting at the edge of her bed and gazing up.
Features

Regional exclusive Baroque exhibition signals vision, drive and potential

Hamilton Gallery’s world-class Baroque exhibition, 'Emerging From Darkness', reveals much about the vision and ambition of regional cultural tourism with…

Celina Lei

Dec 15, 2023
Artist impression, Vietnamese Museum Australia. Image: Architecture render by Konzepte Melbourne, Supplied. A terracotta-coloured architecture shaped like a round-edged square. Text on the building says 'Vietnamese Museum Australia'. People are seen outside the museum with trees in the foreground and background of a urban landscape.
News

Vietnamese museum pitches for new site to secure future

After an unresolved dispute on its original proposed location in Victoria's Footscray, the Vietnamese Museum Australia is now being considered…

Celina Lei

Dec 15, 2023
1 … 26 27 28 29 30 … 86
User Icon
Forgot password?
User Icon
Back to Login