About
“On top of a blossoming music career, artist Lana Eileen has nurtured a practice that embraces mythological and psychical themes using photography and mixed media. Describing her works as possessing “an air of magic realism”, she has undergone residencies in Egypt, Iceland and the Arctic Circle to further her ability to make physical the intangible and unfamiliar.”
— Art/Edit Magazine
Lana Eileen is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and musician.
Her work as an artist spans painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and mixed media. In 2019, she undertook an artist residency at the Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, and returned to be an artist-in-residence at The Old School Arthouse near the Arctic Circle in 2021. She later lived in Kraków, Poland, and travelled to both Egypt and Canada to deepen her creative practice across 2022. She received an honourable mention in the professional category of the 2021 Monochrome Photography Awards, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In 2024, she will be studying the materiality of art as part of the program Arts and Media Archaeology at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, before being an artist-in-residence at Studio Kura in Japan, visiting historical sites in Turkey, learning from artisans in rural India with the Jaipur Rugs Foundation, and painting in remote Alaska. As a musician, Lana has travelled extensively, touring and recording around the world. She has previously worked with Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Nina Persson) and Mike Coykendall (M. Ward, Blitzen Trapper) in the United States, and Brett Shaw (Florence and the Machine, Robyn, Daughter) in the United Kingdom. Previously based in New Zealand, she is currently living in Melbourne, Australia, where she is completing a Master of Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, while also studying sustainable fashion design at the Australian College of the Arts.Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition, Mutinous Air, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand, 2024
Group Exhibition, Horizonites, Post Office Projects, Adelaide, Australia, 2023
Group Exhibition, The Body Remembers, The Starving Artist, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2023
Solo Exhibition, Convergence, The Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2023
Group Exhibition, Art Prize, Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie, Australia, 2023
Solo Exhibition, The Language of Water, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand, 2022
Group Exhibition, Moving Visions, Loop Project Space, Melbourne, Australia, 2022
Group Exhibition, Taking Pictures, Black Box Gallery, Portland, United States, 2022
Group Exhibition, Auto Focus: A Portrait of the Self, Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome, Italy, 2022
Group Exhibition, The New Artist, Boomer Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2022
Solo Exhibition, Holding Space, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Australia, 2021
Residencies / Workshops
Studio Kura Artist Residency, Fukuoka, Japan, 2024
Arts and Media Archaeology (Summer School), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2024
The Old School Artist Residency, Hrísey, Iceland, 2022
Fish Factory Creative Centre Artist Residency, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, 2019
Awards
Monochrome Photography Awards - Honourable Mention (Professional), 2021