Elaine's works celebrate beauty and colour. Her work gives a voice to beauty and seeks to ensure that the art of beauty in fine art and nature continues to be explored and enjoyed.
She has exhibited solo and as part of groups around Australia, and was a finalist in the Australian 2016 & 2017 Bowness Prize and the Australian 2016 & 2018 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections.
Qualifications: Advanced Diploma of Photography PSC (Photography studies college, Melbourne) 2004
Exhibitions :
August 2019 Love & Mixed Emotion, Ballarat International foto Biennale 2019 Open Program
May 2019 Vanitas Revisited Exhibition (Associated Exhibition Headon International Festival) April 2019 Included in group show “Loud and Luminous” 100 Australian Female photographers, shown at Contact Sheet Gallery & also Festival Hub Featured exhibition Headon
September 2017 Vanitas Revisited Exhibition (Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe)
February 2016 “Traveller or Tourist?” Fortyfivedownstairs
September 2015 Traveller Exhibition BIFB (Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe)
June 2010 “Zen Of the Landscape and Selected other works” Obscura Gallery, Melbourne
May 2010 “Zen Of the Landscape” Solo Show; Meyer gallery, Sydney
Dec 2007 Obscura Gallery - The Summer Show
January 2007 Dark Portraiture (Curated exhibition) - PCP (Perth Centre Photography)
August 2006 Mars Gallery (Port Melbourne) The Nude show.
October 2005 "The Art of Nature" Central Goldfields Gallery, Marybough.
August 2005 Tempera Galleries. Solo show. Serenity series.
Awards:
September 2018 Finalist - Fremantle Art Centre Print award 2018
October 2017 Finalist - MGA William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2017
July 2016 Finalist - MGA William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2016
July 2016 Finalist - Fremantle Art Centre Print award 2016
September 2016 included in the BIFB 2016 Calendar (May) (Curated: Alasdair Foster.)
June 2011 Finalist and People’s choice winner Clifton’s Art prize (Melbourne)
March 2006 bad 2008 Finalist - She Who Belongs /"She who Explores" Walker Street Gallery
July 2006 Finalist - Landed - Gasworks Art Park
April 2005 - Finalist Castlemaine State Art Fair.
May 2005: Graduation award – Fuji industry award for excellence in a commercial folio.
April/May 2004: M11- Black and White magazine Capture : Highly commended.
