Eliza Adam is a Magandjin (Brisbane) based multidisciplinary artist, working in painting, sculpture and textile-based processes. Her practice investigates themes of universal inter-connectivity, through explorations of place and time.
Responding directly to her surroundings, Adam explores recent and distant histories of place. Through built layers and simple notations, Adam’s work presents landscape as an informal archive.
Adam has lived and worked in various locations across Australia, from the coast of South East Queensland to the desert of remote Western Australia, each of these environments have informed her practice
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2015 Graduate Diploma of Education (Visual Art), Queensland University of Technology, QLD
2014 Graduate Certificate Arts and Community Engagement, Victorian College of Art, VIC
2003 Bachelor Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, QLD
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Exploration 24, Flinders Lane Gallery, VIC
2024 Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery QLD
2024 Paradise Gloss, Side Gallery, QLD
2023- Solo Hesitation, Belco Arts, ACT
2022 Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery QLD
2021 Mutual Intent, Brisbane Powerhouse, QLD
2021- Solo Submerged, Hub Gallery, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2020 Elaine Bermingham Memorial Prize, Queensland College of Art, QLD
2018 Seeds and Stones- Selected Artists, The Planting, Sunshine Coast, QLD
2013 Popped, The Lock Up, Newcastle, NSW
2012- Solo Landscape, Pod Space Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
2012 Blacktown Art Awards, NSW
2012 Ground Up, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2012 Return to Sender, Blindside, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Newcastle Emerging Art Awards, Newcastle Art Space
2011 Newcastle Emerging Art Awards, Newcastle Art Space
2010 Something or Other, Old Space Studios, Brisbane, QLD
Awards / Residencies
2025 The Lake House- Lake Macquarie City Council Residency Program (Funded), NSW
2024 Harrigan’s Lane Collective Residency Program (Funded), NSW
2024 Redland Art Awards, Finalist
2022 Redland Art Awards, Finalist
2020 Elaine Bermingham Memorial Prize, Finalist
2013 Subsidised studio placement, Newcastle Community Art Centre, Newcastle, NSW
2012 Blacktown Art Awards, Finalist
2012 Newcastle Emerging Art Awards, Highly Commended
2011 Newcastle Emerging Art Awards, Highly Commended
2004 Unleashed - Annual Emerging Artist Selection, Craft Queensland
Publications
2025 Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service Art Collection publication
2022 Louise Martin-Chew, Redland Art Awards Review, https://redlandartawards.com.au/review.html
2013 Jill Stowell, ‘Vivid Array’ Newcastle Herald, Review, 23rd, March, 2013
2013 Una Rey, ‘Sharing Cultural Identities’, Newcastle Herald, Weekender
2012 Jill Stowell, ‘Mining Loss and Nostalgia’, Newcastle Herald, Review, 14th April, 2012
Collections
Queensland Children’s Hospital Collection
Private collections within Australia