Dan Elborne

Contemporary ceramic art, installation, sculpture

Dan Elborne is an Australian visual artist currently practicing in Naarm/Melbourne. His primary working material is clay, which is utilized for long-form installation-based projects and sculptural series’. Across various modes of practice, Elborne builds work on intersecting foundations of memory, time, labour and materiality.

Each project and piece remain conscious of the historical, philosophical and technical potency of ceramics, as well as secondary materials including ash, gold, lead and bone. Through their use, Elborne references events, themes and dichotomies of survival against suffering, preservation against decay and the intricacies of remembering. Ultimately and regardless of form, Elborne’s work is designed, produced and exhibited to invite viewers into a gentle space of interpretation, contemplation and actionable reflection.

Elborne has exhibited extensively in Australia; including gallery, institution and museum shows across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania. Internationally, Elborne has participated in a number of artist residencies in France, Denmark, Iceland and Japan, as well as exhibitions in London, Helsinki, Sweden, Copenhagen and Philadelphia. His work has also been published and is part of both public and private collections across the globe.

Between 2011 and 2014, Elborne completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (majoring in visual art) with first class Honours through the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). Between 2016 and 2019, he completed a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) through UniSQ, which focussed on the role, relevance and responsibility of contemporary art in representing atrocities and collective trauma.

In February of 2020, Elborne moved from his hometown of Toowoomba to Melbourne where his practice is now based at Schoolhouse Studios (Coburg) on Kulin Nation lands.

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