Eloise is an artist and arts worker privileged to be living and working on Aboriginal land, including Gundungurra, Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri land. She studies the relationships between people and place as well as photography and the historiography of these abstrusely beautiful often fraught interrelationships.

Eloise uses wet plate photographic processes. Wet plate processes were popularised in Australia in the 1850s (the ambrotype (on glass) in 1854 and the tintype (on metal) in 1858). Eloise’s camera-original wet plate photographs utilise historical and contemporary methods, including traditional hand sensitisation using a silver nitrate solution, modern lenses and metering. Working within this colocation of the past and the present, Eloise creates feminist interpretations of history and the photographic archive.  

Eloise is experienced by way of Craig Tuffin as well as by way of Ellie Young of Gold Street Studios, a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) (Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney) and a Master of Museum Studies (the University of Sydney). 

Eloise co-adjudicated the Australian Photographic Society’s 2023 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, exhibiting at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre 3 July - 26 August. Eloise is exhibiting in Tracing Ruptures, curated by Hayley Zena Poynton, at the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre 22 July - 10 September. Eloise is also exhibiting in Hill End Analogue, Hill End 18 - 19 November 2023.

to see more work, please write eloisemaree@hotmail.com