about
Elantropy is a multidisciplinary artist working across visual art, including installation, painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, glass, ceramics, artist books, graphic novels, text, video, sound, and photography. Born in Cill Dara (Kildare), Ireland, she lives and works on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Boorloo (Perth), Australia.
Guided by philosophy, systems thinking, and speculative approaches, her practice unfolds transnationally through an interdisciplinary lens. She explores the complex entanglements of place, culture, identity, and being alongside more-than-human others within ecological, social, and technological systems that shape contemporary experience.
Process-led, experimental, and exploratory, her work moves between order and chaos, structure and intuition, attending to subtle, difficult, or unspoken aspects of experience within living, non-living, social, and technological systems. It engages ecological relations, material-technological processes, and the ways meaning emerges through interaction, mediation, and everyday encounter.
Through chance, reflection, and deliberate unknowing, elements, systems, and ideas emerge, deform, and re-form. Uncertainty shapes the work’s unfolding in relation to place, time, embodiment, and the environments, both organic and constructed, in which it occurs.
At these intersections, art for Elantropy is inquiry: thinking in action, reframing how meaning is formed and held. Discoveries arise naturally, and creation follows what is noticed rather than imposing pre-conceived outcomes. The work remains open-ended, responsive, relational, and perpetually becoming.
Exhibitions:
2025: ECU Visual Arts & Photomedia Exhibition, Western Australia (WA).
Still Wet Exhibition, ECU Visual Art Society, Western Australia (WA).
2024: SAH Executive Showcase, Gallery 25, ECU Western Australia (WA).
ECU Visual Arts & Photomedia Exhibition, Western Australia (WA).
2023: ArtsHum Exhibition, ECU School of Arts and Humanities, Western Australia.
2022: ArtsHum Exhibition, ECU School of Arts and Humanities, Western Australia.
2021: Frame of Mind: Mental Health and the Arts, WA & NSW
ArtsHum Exhibition, ECU School of Arts and Humanities, Western Australia (WA).
2020: ArtsHum School of Design Exhibition, ECU, Western Australia (WA).
2019: ALVA UWA End of Year Exhibition, Cullity Gallery, Western Australia (WA).
ALVA UWA Mid-Year Exhibition, Cullity Gallery, Western Australia (WA).
2018: ALVA UWA End of Year Exhibition, Cullity Gallery, Western Australia (WA).
ALVA UWA Mid-Year Exhibition, Cullity Gallery, Western Australia (WA).
Awards
2025: Artsource Industry Award
2025 - 2018: Letters of Commendation, UWA & ECU
Residencies:
2026: Forthcoming residency: Inglewood AIR
Publications
2022: Quantum Shorts (international)
2020: Pelican Magazine, Volume 91, Edition 5 – Creators, Western Australia
2019: Art of the Graphic Novel, Volume 7, UWA Publishing, Western Australia
Education:
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA (High Distinction (HD) 2019–2025:
Bachelor of Arts – Fine Arts, Art History, Literature and Narrative Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA. (HD). 2018–2019
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