Eloise is an artist and arts worker privileged to be living and working on Aboriginal land, including Dharug, Gundungurra, Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri land. Eloise studies the relationships and the historiography of the relationships between people, landscapes and photography.

Eloise uses wet plate photographic processes. Wet plate processes were popularised in Australia in the 1850s (the ambrotype (on glass) in 1854 and the tintype (on metal) in 1858). Eloise’s camera-original wet plate photographs utilise historical and contemporary methods, including traditional hand sensitisation using a silver nitrate solution, modern lenses and metering. Working within this colocation of the present and the past, Eloise creates feminine and feminist interpretations of history and the photographic archive.  

Eloise is experienced by way of Craig Tuffin as well as by way of Ellie Young of Gold Street Studios, a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) (Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney) and a Master of Museum Studies (the University of Sydney). 

Eloise is currently coordinating the collection, touring exhibitions and Bowness Photography Prize at the Museum of Australian Photography as well as co-adjudicating the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize. She is the spring artist in residence at the National Trust NSW’s Woodford Academy.

to see more work, please write eloisemaree@hotmail.com