About

Elyse de Valle - she/her

Born Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country / Frankston, Australia 1986

Elyse de Valle is an artist and archivist who engages with materials and site to express the conceptual concerns of her art practice. De Valle’s work explores little known narratives that permit her contemplation of creative labour, chronic physical and mental illness, memory, trauma, loss and experience. It is often a pursuit to trace, re-examine and respond to social and personal history, reflecting on how memory is encoded directly and indirectly within the body and built form.

De Valle completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours in 2012 and a Masters of Fine Art in 2015 at Monash University. De Valle has held solo and group shows around Australia and internationally. She was awarded the 2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence program award for Australia/New Zealand and has undertaken residencies in Italy and Scotland. Past employment has included archiving, storage and exhibitions solutions at the National Gallery of Victoria and digitisation at Museums Victoria and Bendigo Art Gallery.

De Valle advocates for peer support in the arts for people with mental and physical health issues and collaborates with artists with a disability on projects, promoting their inclusion in contemporary art practice. She has volunteered at organisations such as Arts Project Australia (Melbourne, VIC), Creativity Explored (San Francisco, California, USA), and The Dax Centre (Melbourne, VIC).

De Valle lives and works on the lands of the Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Peoples of the South-Eastern Kulin Nation. On their country she has always felt at home, supported and curious. De Valle thanks, acknowledges, and pays respect to the Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Peoples, the traditional owners and sovereign custodians of the land on which she works and lives. She extends her respect to their Ancestors and all First Peoples and Elders past, present and future. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

Education

2015 Master of Fine Arts, Monash University, Caulfield, VIC

2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (first class), Monash University, Caulfield, VIC

2011 Bachelor of Visual Arts: Painting, Monash University, Caulfield, VIC

2011 Certificate IV Business Administration, Origin, Melbourne, VIC

2008 Bachelor of Social Science (incomplete), RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Emotionally Overcontrolled/Undercontrolled, Kuiper Projects, Meanjin (Brisbane), QLD

2019 A Perverse Past: the persistence of objects, Craft Cubed Festival, Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre, Melbourne, VIC

2017 The Frames That Remain, Bus Projects, Collingwood, VIC

2015 A Perverse Past: the persistence of objects, Monash University, Caulfield, VIC

2014 Rinaldi’s Poets, Palazzo Rinaldi Artists’ Residency, Noepoli, Italy

2013 Presence of Mind, Platform, Public Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, VIC

2013 Rencountering, White Street Project, Frankston, VIC

2013 Imaging, White Street Project, Frankston, VIC

Group Exhibitions

Vanessa Maltese | Biplap Sarkar | Wang Teyu. Glenfiddich Whisky Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland

Craig Walsh. Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW

2017 Excavation, Elyse de Valle | Zoe Scoglio | Melanie Jayne Taylor, Curated by Simone Hine and Kyle Weise, Arts West, The University

of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC

2017 Unproductive Thinking, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood, VIC

2015-16 Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora, VIC

2014 Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Aberfeldie, VIC

2014 Slip, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, VIC

2013 Revel-8, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, WA

2012 MADA Graduate Show, Monash University Art & Design, Caulfield, VIC

2012 Revel-8, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, WA

2011 Graduand Show, Monash University Art & Design, Caulfield, VIC

Residencies

2018 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence, 2018 International Residency Programme. Glenfiddich Whisky Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland

2014 Palazzo Rinaldi Artists’ Residency, Noepoli, Italy

Awards

2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence program Award 2018

2015 Finalist for Darebin Art Prize

2014 Finalist for Incinerator Art Award

2014 Monash University Travel Grant

2013 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)

2012 Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces Award

2012 Honours Fine Art Award, Monash University

Bibliography and Selected Reviews

2021 Creativity and DBT, The BPD Advocate, Summer 2021

2017 Australian and New Zealand Artists in Residecne Prize - The 2017 Winner, Elyse de Valle, Glenfiddich. http://www.glenfiddich.com/

Artist Elyse De Valle wins the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program, Art Almanac, 22 September 2017

Gina Fairly, Melbourne artist's career gets whisky boost, Arts Hub, 14 September 2017

Giselle Bueti, Winner of the 15th annual Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program Announced, 20 September 2017

Unproductive thinking / Jessie Bullivant, Lauren Burrow, Eugene Carchesio, Laresa Kosloff, Rob McHaffie, Ian Milliss, Elyse de Valle and

2016 Dan Rule, Our pick of what’s showing at galleries around town, The Age, 15 January

2014 Incinerator Gallery, Incinerator Art Award Catalogue

2014 Dan Rule, In the Galleries; Slip, The Age, 10 May 2014

2013 Mall Becomes Gallery, Leader, 1 April 2013

2012 Disparate, Independently published, November 2012

Publication

Interviews

2015 In conversation with Rachel Shepheard, Friday Best Magazine.

http://fridaybestmag.com/

Selected Employment

2020-23 Digital Image Management Officer, Bendigo Art Gallery

2020 Digitisation Officer, AMaGA

2016-18 Image Management Officer, Museums Victoria

2015-16 Technical/Relocations Officer for Collection Storage Project, National Gallery of Victoria

Selected Voluntary Work

2008-16 Disabled Surfers Association; Mornington Peninsula and Ocean Grove, VIC

2008-14 Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, VIC

2012 The Oaks. Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care, Petaluma, California, USA

2012 Creativity Explored, San Francisco, California, USA

2011 The Dax Centre, Melbourne, VIC