Damien Minton Gallery

Travelling North brings together a series of images following the birth of her second child.

Again using everyday domestic objects – plastic bags, toys, flashbulbs, Tupperware, teacups, alfoil, Elaine Campaner constructs landscapes on the dining room table and registers movements in the outside world from the kitchen bench.

“The work is about fragility and being encumbered, about parenthood and longing. It is about having an experience on the side of a teacup, and the feeling of having a warm bird on your cheek.”

2009Exhibition: Cold Front, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery. Curated by Meryl Ryan 2009Solo exhibition: Travelling North, Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern 2008Under Stars, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. Billboard project Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham 2007National Photographic Portraiture Prize, National Portrait Gallery Canberra. Portrait of journalist Margo Kingston. Finalist 2007Art & About, Sydney Life Prize. Finalist 2007Moving Still – Rutherford Rede Exhibition – The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland New Zealand. 2007Solo exhibition: Holiday, Damien Minton Gallery Redfern 2007Exhibition: Finalist in the National Photography Prize, Albury Regional Gallery 2007Solo exhibition: Paradise if you can stand it
McNamara Gallery New Zealand 2006Solo Exhibition: Internment Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern 2005Exhibition: Lapped Campbelltown Arts Centre. Curated by Peter Fay 2005Exhibition: Regarding Retro: Reanimations of the Preloved Blacktown Arts Centre. Curated by Ingrid Hoffman Touring venues including: Museum of Brisbane, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Muswellbrook Arts Centre, Gallery Hinchinbrook, Kick Arts Cairns and Bundaberg Arts Centre 2003Blake Prize Finalist with work Jonah and the Big Fish 2003Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection NGA 2002Exhibition: Women of the New Testament Salmon Galleries 2001Exhibition: Ephemera Salmon Galleries 2001Exhibition: Six of One Half a Dozen of the Other Cafe Blue Newtown 2001-2003Scott Carver Architects: Principle Graphic Designer 2000Exhibition: The New Testament as Understood by Small Children Newspace Gallery Rozelle NSW 1999Honours Exhibition Sydney College of the Arts Rozelle NSW 1998BVA Degree Show Sydney College of the Arts Rozelle NSW 1998Exhibition: Semiantics Gallery 123 Rozelle NSW 1997Exhibition: Barbies (Series I) SCA Gallery 1 1997Chroma Art Prize for Painting 1997-1999Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts. (Honours Div 1 Class 1) (Painting Studio) 1989-1994Studied BSc (Arch) (Distinction Average) 1993Travel in India 1991Travel in Australia 198812 month Scholarship to Brazil. Studied Artes Plasticas Universidade de Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Collections:

Ergas Collection
Deutsche Bank
Art Gallery of NSW
Macquarie Bank Collection
National Gallery of Australia (work from 1999, 2005, 2006)
University of Sydney Union (2004)
University of Woollongong (2005)
NRMA Corporate Collection (1998)
Private Collections