“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 Irish-Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally a fine art photographer, her practice has since evolved to centre around painting.
In 2019, she undertook an artist residency at the Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, before returning to Iceland in 2021 for a residency at The Old School Arthouse on the remote island of Hrísey. She later lived in Kraków, Poland, and undertook creative research across Egypt and Canada in 2022. In 2024, she moved to Italy, and continued her practice while travelling in Japan and Korea, documenting the experience through photographic work. She was an artist-in-residence at Nordingrå Kontsby on the High Coast of Sweden in late 2025. In 2026, she will be an artist-in-residence with Lighthouse Arts in Newcastle, New South Wales.
She has been recognised internationally, including an honourable mention in the professional category of the 2021 Monochrome Photography Awards, and she has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and overseas. As a painter, she works predominantly with oil pastels. Her work can be described as contemporary figurative painting with strong symbolic elements filtered through a folk-art sensibility.
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.
Outside of this, she is also a writer. Her poetry has been published in Meniscus Literary Journal, The Marrow International Poetry Journal, Lamplit and Sextet.
Exhibitions
Group Exhibition, Summer Salon, Straitjacket Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 2025
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
Nordingrå Konstby Artist Residency, Vännersta, Sweden, 2025
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