Artist Statement

Elaina Venn is a visual artist based in Melbourne/Naarm. Spanning installation, sculpture, painting and drawing her practice engages with childhood trauma and the unreliability of memory and ghosts. Venn’s work occupies a transitional space between the material and immaterial, the haptic and ephemeral, the embodied and transcendent, the past, present and the absent. Her work imagines alternate child-sized worlds in which handmade objects become strange, monochrome and deliberately uncomfortable. Haunted, real or imagined these constructed worlds function as portals into speculative realms.