Celina Lei

Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. 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. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_

Celina Lei's Latest Articles

Render of ‘HOME’, Australian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Australia’s entry to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale hits the 'No' Referendum vote head on

A First Nations creative team has been selected for the Australian national pavilion in Venice with an 'Indigenous education amphitheatre'.

‘Party Ghost’ with performers Olivia Porter and Jarred Dewey at NAFA. Two acrobatic performers, one sitting on the head of the other while balancing on his hands.
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Performance reviews: North Australian Festival of Arts 2024 round-up

ArtsHub’s take on four shows at this year’s North Australian Festival of Arts, including dance, circus and physical theatre.

‘skeletons’ by Judy Watson, installation view at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville. A white-walled gallery with two large columns in the middle. Several works are on display including a sheer red banner on the left and a video projection showing landscape in the centre.
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Exhibition review: skeletons, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts

A solo of existing and newly commissioned works by Waanyi artist, Judy Watson, which uncovers colonial ‘skullduggery’.

Simone Haag sitting down next to three crudely textured charis by Scotty Bemelen in her Melbourne home. She will curate the end of year exhibition at Craft Victoria.
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Interior stylist Simone Haag's curatorial debut weaves 'Fables & Folklore' with craft

Guest-curating Craft Victoria's end-of-year exhibition, Simone Haag will explore mystical narratives through the lenses of 30 Australian artists.

Paul Guest Drawing Prize 2024 finalist, Sarah Crowest, ‘Hot Potato (several small fires), 2024’. Potatoes with eyes around a fire.
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Opportunities and awards

Grants for experimental practice, plus winners of the Shane and Catherine Brennan Prize, finalists of the churchie emerging art prize,…

14th Art from the Heart of the Cross exhibition organised by MSIC, themed 'People Before Politics'. An artwork featuring a panda with a cigarette in its mouth and doing graffiti.
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Exhibition puts 'People Before Politics' as NSW Drug Summit draws near

The show seeks to address the taboo of talking about drug use through artworks that focus on self-expression.

'Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis' installation view at ACCA. A room with gray walled filled with large paintings. In the left corner is an area with a black sofa and small video projected on the wall.
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Exhibition review: Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis, ACCA

The Tennant Creek Brio artistic collective presents a landmark survey with reclaimed mining maps and a wasteland archangel.

Street banners for the annual Banyule Open Studios weekend. Several bright yellow banners with the logo of a large rainbow eye at the centre, laying on the lawn. There is the tag line ‘Step into the Artists’ World’ and the dates ‘Oct 12-13’.
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Artists erased from open studio event to maintain integrity in Council election

Artist and candidate Martin Hirst says the Banyule City Council has overstepped its responsibility in its 'knee-jerk' reaction during the…

‘How Art Works’ by Chloe Watfern. Watfern is shown in a photo on the left, a woman with pale skin and tied back brown hair, wearing large circular earrings and a blue and white circular scoop neck top. On the right is a cover of the book with a. Series of black and white prints with faces drawn on, and the title ‘HOW ART WORKS’
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Book review: How Art Works: Stories from Supported Studios, Chloe Watfern

Spotlighting artists with intellectual disabilities and their ways of art-making, ‘How Art Works’ is an insightful must-have for every arts…

2024 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship recipient Leigh Rigozzi in front of 'The Complete Works of Pieter Bruegel 2022-2024'. Rigozzi is a man with fair skin, short cropped brown hair and a graying beard, wearing black rimmed glasses and a speckled shirt, smiling at the camera and standing in front of a series of colourful illustrations.
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Opportunities and awards

Canberra Theatre Centre seeking performance makers, 2024 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards winners and ARA Historical Novel prize shortlist, plus…

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