TDF Collect

TDF Collect Presents: 'Silk Skin Moon Cakes' By Skye Jefferys

We are SUPER excited today to announce our next TDF Collect exhibition, featuring the work of Melbourne-born, Singapore-based artist Skye Jefferys!

Skye will join us in Collingwood next Thursday September 24th for the opening of her solo exhibition, Silk Skin Moon Cakes. It’s a bold, vibrant body of work which captures the intense energy and colour of her current life in Singapore! We hope you’ll join us.

Written
by
Lucy Feagins

Australian artist Skye Jefferys in her Singapore home studio. Behind Skye, ‘State of Things‘, 100cm x 120cm, acrylic on canvas, by Skye for her upcoming exhibition Silk Skin Moon Cakes with us at TDF Collect! Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

Skye Jefferys’ Singapore studio, with works in progress for her upcoming show, Silk Skin Moon Cakes for TDF Collect, opening Thursday 24th September! Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

Studio details. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

‘No More Moon’, 100cm x 120cm, acrylic on canvas by Skye Jefferys for her upcoming exhibition Silk Skin Moon Cakes with us at TDF Collect!

Artwork by Skye Jefferys, for her upcoming exhibition Silk Skin Moon Cakes with TDF Collect. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

Studio details. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

Singapore-based artist Skye Jefferys in her home studio. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

‘Opal, Frangipani, Rain’, 70cm x 100cm, acrylic on canvas by Skye Jefferys for her upcoming exhibition Silk Skin Moon Cakes with us at TDF Collect!

Studio details. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

Skye at work. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

‘Unicorn Lessons’, 56cm x 66cm, acrylic on canvas by Skye Jefferys for her upcoming exhibition Silk Skin Moon Cakes with us at TDF Collect!

Skye at her work in her home studio in Singapore. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

Writer
Lucy Feagins
13th of September 2015

We’ve had our eye on Australian artist Skye Jefferys for quite some time. Way back in 2013, we were lucky to snaffle two of her beautiful paintings for our ‘TDF Open House’ event in Hawthorn… they were snapped up very quickly! We’ve since kept a close eye on Skye’s practice.

Its been a very busy couple of years for Skye since we last touched base. In 2013 she had her second child, and soon after that, moved to Singapore with her young family. ‘It’s very de-stabilising moving overseas, but thrilling at the same time’ she says of this time. ‘I had only a small box of watercolours, oils sticks and paper, so I experimented during this transitional phase. But once my studio was set up I quickly fell into a routine of painting full-time’.

Skye and her husband moved to Singapore with a sense of adventure in mind. ‘We both wanted to try living overseas at some point with our kids, to expose to them another culture and way of life. When the opportunity arose, we couldn’t say no’ explains Skye. ‘To me, Singapore is like a fragrant hotpot. All these different cultures come together, and the alchemy of it creates something vibrant and exotic’.

We’re so excited to bring Skye’s work back to Melbourne later this month for her first solo show on home soil! Entitled ‘Silk Skin Moon Cakes’, the exhibition brings together 17 new works on canvas, distinctive for their loose, gestural style and Skye’s use of vivid, buzzing colour inspired by her tropical surroundings.

‘Colour intrigues and perplexes me in equal parts’ explains Skye. ’I have pushed my colour palette with these works – referencing the emerald green of the tropics, orchid mauve and dragon fruit pink. It’s impossible not to be influenced by the nature surrounding me.’

Exploring the concept of having no boundaries, no start or finish to the paintings, Skye works on un-defined, un-stretched canvases, moving around the works so there is no sense of top or bottom.  ‘Once a painting starts to feel resolved, I approach from a new orientation and begin again, this time using a new perspective’ explains Skye. ‘I try to push the composition to an unexpected resolution and, in so doing, find its edges’.

Each surface of Skye’s paintings is completely covered with vibrant colour. Skye’s dynamic brushwork is layered, intertwining and endlessly overlapping. At times the bold colours are discordant, and at other times they are harmonious, but Skye is always trying to create a conversation or a relationship between the colour and the form.

Skye is looking forward to seeing friends and family again when she joins us in Melbourne next week for the opening of this show!

All the works in the exhibition are now pictured on the TDF Collect website and we are accepting pre-sales for the show via email.  All enquiries please email lisa@thedesignfiles.net – thankyou!

Silk Skin Moon Cakes by Skye Jefferys
24th Sept – 30th Sept 2015
TDF Collect
14 Little Oxford st
Collingwood, VIC

Opening drinks – Thursday 24th Sept, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm.

TDF Collect is sponsored by DuluxCervezas Alhambra and Capi. All are welcome to our opening night event to view Skye’s paintings in person and share a drink with us!

Skye Jefferys at home in her Singapore. On the back wall, ‘Moss Mountain‘ and ‘Unicorn Lessons‘, both paintings for Skye’s upcoming exhibition Silk Skin Moon Cakes with TDF Collect. Photo – Derek Swalwell for The Design Files.

Recent TDF Collect