Zoe Ellenberg

ZOE ELLENBERG

Born Melbourne 1973

Nature is my perspective inspiration and muse. I have a passion for the littoral. Where the reef meets the tropical rainforest. Where mountains swell up from the sea and where the abundance of nature bursts into flower and birdsong. This passion has led me to the rainforests of Cape Tribulation FNQ, Buderim Queensland, Bali Lombok and the Gillis Indonesia, Vietnam and the South Pacific. Corals, mangroves, swamps, forests, ferneries, epiphytes and orchids are my entire palette blasting with colour and life. My paintings grow as the forest does sometimes as a vine organically twisting and turning in linear black enamel forging a leafy path, sometimes as a vapour of shocking colour as an inflorescence, here a drip spill of ink down from the tall canopy, here a blaze of sunset sky or aqua sea or drenching rain.
– Zoe

Studies & Travel

1992 – 1995 Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne University Bachelor of Arts
1997 Study and Travel Bali Indonesia
2003-04 Vietnam and Bali
2008 Europe
2010 Europe and Indonesia
2011 Indonesia
2012 Artist in Residence Green School Bali Indonesia
2013 Europe
2014 Hawaii
2015 Europe and Indonesia
2016 Indonesia
2017 Europe and Asia
2018 South Pacific

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Birdsong, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2019 Solo Exhibition @ Nissarana Gallery Mornington, Vic
2019 Without Pier gallery Cheltenham, Vic
2018 Zoe Ellenberg SOHO Gallery Sydney
2017 The Other Art Fair Sydney
2015 Zoe Ellenberg Without Pier Gallery Cheltenham, Vic
2014 New works Zoe Ellenberg Joshua McClelland Print Room Rathdown St Carlton, Vic
2007 The Sydney Art Fair
2006 Zoe Ellenberg Delshan Art Gallery Armadale, Vic
2002 Recent Works Delshan Art Gallery Armadale, Vic
1999 Sculptures and Bali Paintings Joshua McClelland Print Room Collins St Melbourne, Vic
1999 FemLe Attitude Slka Gallery Ubud Bali Indonesia

Group Exhibitions

2017 Artisans in the Garden 2017 Exhibition Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
2017 Group Show Without Pier Gallery Cheltenham
2015 SOHO Gallery Sydney
2013 Group Show Tusk Gallery South Yarra
2012 Group Show Without Pier Gallery Cheltenham
2011 Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Zoe & Joshua Ellenberg Smartartz Gallery
2011 Indoor Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
2011 ASV Annual Sculpture Exhibition The Light Factory Gallery Eltham
2010 ASV Annual Sculpture Exhibition The Light Factory Gallery Eltham
2010 ASV Association The Elliot ASV Gallery South Yarra
2010 Melbourne International Garden Show Exhibition Building Carlton Gardens
2001 Hybrid Delshan Art Gallery Armadale
2001 Group Show Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
2000 Y2Artists Delshan Art Gallery Armadale
1998 Female Form The Jackman Gallery St Kilda

Awards

2015 Finalist Deakin Small Sculpture Award
2011 Melbourne International Garden Show Commendation
2010 Finalist Deakin Small Sculpture Award
2010 ASV Annual Exhibition Delchem Pty Ltd First Prize
1996 ASV Andor Meszaros Sculpture Award Second Prize

Publications & Interviews

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arts-show-with-alex-mcculloch/id1208009930?mt=2
2017
https://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/the-arts-show-7-april-2015-josh-and-zoe-ellenberg-michael-peck-and-trevor-harvey/
2015
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine 2014
https://beautifulbizarre.net/2014/06/15/zoe-ellenberg-interview/
World Antiques 2013

The Green School Newsletter Bali
https://www.greenschool.org/2012/08/25/green-school-weekly-newsletter-24-aug-2012/
Art Collector 2011