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, 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.
Elyse 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.
I live and work on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung Peoples. On their country I have found a home that I feel safe, curious, and comfortable in. I thank, acknowledge, and pay respects to the Dja Dja Wurrung Peoples, the traditional owners and sovereign custodians of the land on which I work and live. I extend my respect to their Ancestors and all First Peoples and Elders past, present and future. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
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Education
2015 Master of Fine Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (first class), Monash University, Melbourne
2011 Bachelor of Visual Arts: Painting, Monash University, Melbourne, 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, VIC
2017 The Frames That Remain, Bus Projects, Melbourne, VIC
2015 A Perverse Past: the persistence of objects, Monash University, Melbourne, 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, Melbourne, VIC
2013 Imaging- Part 1, White Street Project, Melbourne, VIC
Group Exhibitions
2018 Artists at Glenfiddich, 2018 International Residency Programme. Melissa M Button. Saejin Choi. Elyse de Valle. Rhona Jack. Gao Yu.
Vanessa Maltese. Biplap Sarkar. Wang Teyu. Glenfiddich Whisky Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland
2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence program, 5 Finalists Exhibit; Elyse de Valle | Penelope Cain | Belem Lett | Lillian O’Neil | Hiromi Tango
and 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, VIC
2017 Unproductive Thinking, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2015- 2016 Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead, VIC
2014 Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Slip, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2013 Revel-8, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, WA
2012 MADA Graduate Show, Monash University Art & Design, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Revel-8, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, WA
2011 Graduand Show, Monash University Art & Design, Melbourne, VIC
Residencies
2018 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence, 2018 International Residency Programme. Glenfiddich Whisky Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland
2014 Palazzo Rinaldi Artists’ Residency, Noepoli, Italy
2014 Corsanini Studio Residency, Carrara, 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
2023 Emotionally Overcontrolled/Undercontrolled, Elyse de Valle, with Essay by Lachlan Horn, Photography by Leon Schoots, ©2023
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
2017 Unproductive thinking / Jessie Bullivant, Lauren Burrow, Eugene Carchesio, Laresa Kosloff, Rob McHaffie, Ian Milliss, Elyse de Valle and
Simon Zoric. James Lynch, (Curator), (writer of catalogue essay). Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Exhibition Catalogue, ©2017
2016 Dan Rule, Our pick of what’s showing at galleries around town, The Age, 15 January
2015 A Perverse Past: The Persistence of Objects, Elyse de Valle, Monash University ©2015
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
Interviews
2015 In conversation with Rachel Shepheard, Friday Best Magazine.
Voluntary Work
2008- 2014 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