Celina Lei, Author at ArtsHub Australia

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

Two large illuminated relief works, one orange and one dark blue, displayed on a wall. A figure is observing the orange work. free exhibitions.

Free exhibitions in South Australia August 2025

Your guide to free exhibitions in SA this August, including SALA, Mark Valenzuela at ACE, Ramsay Art Prize and more.

Celina Lei

Jul 29, 2025

Discover the best new opportunities, grants and awards. Image: Noah Buscher on Unsplash.

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 28 July to 3 August 2025

ArtsPay releases No Fuss funding, 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards now open, callout for new romance anthology, New York residency…

Celina Lei

Jul 28, 2025

Five middle-aged Caucasian artists standing in a gallery with beige walls and artworks, including four long hanging tapestry or textile pieces. 2025 Miles Franklin Award, Siang Lu. Arts prize winners, recipients, shortlists.

Top arts prize winners, shortlists and finalists: 22 to 28 July 2025

Winners of LGBTQIA+ choir competition, 2025 Pinnacle Awards, plus arts grant recipients sharing $15 million and more.

Celina Lei

Jul 28, 2025

A comfortably furnished hotel room decorated with art as part of SPRING1883.

SPRING1883: three reasons why you should visit this hotel art fair

Returning to The Hotel Windsor from 13-16 August, SPRING1883 blends the Victorian aesthetic with contemporary flair.

Celina Lei

Jul 24, 2025

Photo of Hiromi wearing a red dress sitting on a leather couch alongside four string quartets.

OzAsia Festival 2025: what’s hot and what’s new

Opera comes back from the dead, The Female Pope, dance in public spaces, and the greatest debate on never moving…

Celina Lei

Jul 24, 2025

A mixed media collage of eight portraits.

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 22 to 28 July 2025

Adelaide Fringe poster competition returns, Creative WA Fellowships for young talent plus Lester Prize shortlist and more opportunities.

Celina Lei

Jul 22, 2025

Ken Done, an 85-year-old Caucasian man standing smiling with his arms crossed on top of his chest inside a studio with canvas, paint, and a work in progress.

Ken Done, 85, takes on surfers’ spirit at HOTA, Gold Coast

Gold Coast’s HOTA will soon welcome the joyous paintings of Ken Done in Ken Done: No Rules.

Celina Lei

Jul 19, 2025

An artist dress in a costume with cactus-like limbs sticking out of their back surrounded by a circle of onlookers. The room is awash in red light. SOFT CENTRE 2022.

SOFT CENTRE 2025 to take over Sydney with experimental art and electronic music

Expect international electronic sensations, home-grown immersive art pioneers and critical conversations at SOFT CENTRE.

Celina Lei

Jul 16, 2025

A lavishly set up photograph featuring a red velvet sofa and a figure dressed in a blond wind, cut out red velvet costume where the limbs extend like bug claws. Australian Life Photography Competition finalist Chrissie Hall, ‘The bargain of a life: a couch with legs and no breasts’. Opportunities.

Opportunities and awards

Enlighten Festival callout, SA Arts Leadership Program open, plus finalists across the 2025 National Biography Award, Bowness Photography Prize and…

Celina Lei

Jul 15, 2025

A production photo of dynamic dancers dressed in black suits, forming single file while pulling at each other’s clothes. RISING

RISING receives lifeline from Creative Australia to deliver 2026 dance biennial

ArtsHub exclusive: RISING will return in 2026 as the national presenter of the Australian Dance Biennial.

Celina Lei

Jul 15, 2025

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