About
Lana Eileen is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Australia. Her work as an artist encompasses painting, photography 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.
In 2024, she moved to Italy, exploring her interest in the Italian language, and also visited Japan and Korea, documenting the experience through photographic work. She will be working at an Aboriginal art centre in Australia’s Northern Territory, Warlukurlangu, in 2025. 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.
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.
“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