About

I am a multidisciplinary artist. Through both drawing and photography I explore the resonance of time, making the invisible visible. The flip flop between Transformation — transforming one thing into something else — and Paradox — the existence of one thing based on its opposite — a silence exists in the work, evoking memory. In drawing I explore this through Trace.

Laura Ellenberger holds a BFA Honours in painting and drawing from the National Art School, Sydney (2011), and a Higher Diploma in Photography from Pretoria, South Africa (1986). In 2017 she undertook the Hill End Residency at Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW.

Her work is held in the collection of Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW, and in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa and London. Recent exhibitions include Nit d'art Felanitx (Mallorca), Everard Read London, Messum's Cork Street and .MContemporary Sydney. Her solo exhibition A Quiet Metamorphosis opens at L'Espai, Felanitx in 2026.

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Education

2008–2011 — BFA Honours, painting and drawing. National Art School, Sydney
1982–1986 — Higher Diploma in Photography. Pretoria, South Africa

Solo Exhibitions

2026 — A Quiet Metamorphosis, L'Espai, Felanitx
1985 / 1986 — The Other Side of Midnight, The Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg
1985 — The Other Side of Midnight, Ivan Solomon Gallery, Pretoria
1981 — Ivan Solomon Gallery, Pretoria

Group Exhibitions

2024 — Nit d'art Felanitx, Mallorca
2023 — Nit d'art Felanitx, Mallorca
2023 — Winter Show, Everard Read London
2022 — Group Show, Everard Read London
2021 — Birthday, .MContemporary, Sydney
2021 — Salon, Portocolom
2020 — Summer Show, Everard Read London
2020 — Nit d'art Felanitx
2020 — Obsolete and Discontinued, Verona, Italy
2019 — Skin of the Print, OxMarket Gallery, Chichester, UK
2019 — Obsolete and Discontinued, Naples, Italy
2019 — RevelaT Festival, Barcelona
2018 — Summer Show, Everard Read London
2018 — Obsolete and Discontinued, London
2018 — Winter Show, Everard Read London
2017 — Under $1000, .MContemporary, Sydney
2016 — Breath — long-exposure photographs from the studio of Deborah Bell, Everard Read London
2016 — Obsolete and Discontinued, Cologne, Germany
2016 — Three Women Photographers, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2016 — A Film in One Frame, Messum's Cork Street, London, alongside Laurence Edwards sculptures
2016 — Obsolete and Discontinued, RevelaT, Spain
2016 — LAPC Pinhole Festival, Doomed Gallery, London
2016 — .MContemporary, Sydney
2015 — Considered, .MContemporary, Sydney
2015 — A Blue Show, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2015 — Mythology of my Land, .MContemporary, Sydney
2015 — Memories in Motion, .MContemporary, Sydney
2012 — Honours Drawing 2011 Group Show, Hill End Gallery
2011 — Drawing Group Show, Stairwell Gallery, NAS
2010 — Painting Group Show, Building 25, NAS
2010 — Heavy Metal — bronze casting, Stairwell Gallery, NAS
2009 — Landscape Exhibition, Building 25, NAS
2006–2010 — Artists of Mosman, Sydney
2006, 2007 — Mosman Festival, Mosman Art Gallery
2005 — Painting Awards, The Mall Galleries, London

Residencies

2017 — Hill End Residency, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW

Awards

2015 — Finalist with Honourable Mention, Christina Anderson's Alternative Photography Book, Australia
2012 — Best of Honours 2011, group show curated by Peter Johnson, Sydney
2012 — Finalist, Fisher's Ghost Campbelltown Art Prize, Australia
2006 — Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
1989 — Finalist, SAPPI Awards (South African Paper and Print Industry)
1985–1989 — Ten ILFORD Photographic Awards

Publications

2016 — Inprint, Christina Z. Anderson
1995 — Terence Conran Housebook

Film

2021 — Photographic stills in A Thousand Tides, a Messums production by Phil Cairney — documentary on sculptor Laurence Edwards

Collections

Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa and London