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BIO
Elaine Camlin was born in N. Ireland, migrating to Australia with her parents in 1989. She was a creative child, exploring and collecting curiosities from the landscape where her family lived or visited. She grew up in Wagga Wagga, moving to Canberra to study printmaking at the ANU School of Art before returning home to embrace a regional practice with strong roots in the community.
Her practice seeks to highlight the value of creative communication and art for well-being, bringing together her passion for printmaking, community engagement and art therapy. Elaine actively contributes to creative arts landscape in the Riverina through her studio, Unique State,
Working across varied modes provides a platform to interpret thematic considerations through the lens of place, with an interest in the ephemeral nature of growth and decay and the vital role of regeneration in our environment. Her works explore tangible and imaginative organic objects, informed by personal memories and moments.
Elaine sustains her art practice by exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions locally and interstate. ​Elaine is an active member of the printmaking community, having participated in print exchanges and projects: Imaginings, Overwintering Project, Human Emotion Print Exchange and has been a finalist in national print prizes, Northern Beaches Artist Book Prize and Peebles Print Prize. During the 2020 global Covid-19 pandemic, she facilitated the Pandemic Print Exchange (PPE) with 38 artists working in isolation across Australia, and Internationally.