Elaine Batton

Elaine is a graduate from Photography Studies college. Her fine art photography works are influenced by paintings through the ages and seeks to celebrate beauty and colour. As a visual artist she strives to ensure that beauty in fine art and nature continues to be explored and enjoyed.
She has exhibited solo and as part of groups around Australia, and was a finalist in the 2016 & 2017 Bowness Prize, in the 2016 & 2018 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award, a finalist in the 2021 Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, the 2021 Wyndham Art Prize. the 2024 Omnia Art prize and Finalist in the PCP (perth centre for photography) CLIP award 2024

Photography Studies college Advanced Diploma Photography

Qualifications: Advanced Diploma of Photography PSC (Photography studies college, Melbourne) 2004
Exhibitions :
August 2023 Muted Beauty Exhibition Alternating Current Gallery
December 2021 Muted Beauty Exhibition Red Gallery
December 2020 Love & Mixed Emotion, Alternating current ArtSpace, Windsor, Melbourne, Solo
August 2019 Love & Mixed Emotion, Ballarat International foto Biennale 2019 Open Program
May 2019 Vanitas Revisited Exhibition (Associated Exhibition Headon International Festival)
April 2019 Included in group show “Loud and Luminous” 100 Australian Female photographers, shown at
Contact Sheet Gallery & also Festival Hub Featured exhibition Headon
September 2017 Vanitas Revisited Exhibition (Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe)
February 2016 “Traveller or Tourist?” Fortyfivedownstairs
September 2015 Traveller Exhibition BIFB (Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe)
June 2010 “Zen Of the Landscape and Selected other works” Obscura Gallery, Melbourne
May 2010 “Zen Of the Landscape” Solo Show; Meyer gallery, Sydney
Dec 2007 Obscura Gallery - The Summer Show
January 2007 Dark Portraiture (Curated exhibition) - PCP (Perth Centre Photography)
August 2006 Mars Gallery (Port Melbourne) The Nude show.
October 2005 "T...