About
Lana Eileen is an Irish-Australian artist and musician. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, textiles, photography, sculpture, and drawing. In 2019, she undertook an artist residency at The Creative Centre in the remote village of Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, and was later an artist-in-residence at Gamli Skóli Artist Residency on the island of Hrísey in 2021. She also lived in Kraków, Poland, and travelled to both Egypt and Canada to deepen her creative practice across 2022. As a musician, Lana has travelled extensively, touring and recording around the world. She has previously worked with Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Magnolia Electric Co.) and Mike Coykendall (M. Ward, Beth Orton) in the United States, and Brett Shaw (Florence and the Machine, Robyn, Daughter) in the United Kingdom.She has studied archaeology at Macquarie University, and draws inspiration from this field in her artistic practice and research. Outside of this, she also runs the label HJARTA, a side project for garments she dyes and crafts by hand. Previously based in New Zealand, she is currently undertaking postgraduate study in fine art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. 
“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
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
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