Elaine Campaner

Travelling north

Exhibition dates: Wed 22 April to Sat 9 May 2009
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View the Holiday artworks (2007)
View the Internment artworks (2006)
View the Lapped artworks (2005)

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)
1989-1994 Studied 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