about

Elena Larkin is an artist based on Bundjalung land in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.

Often painting outside (‘en plein air’), Elena explores how creative processes might help us to reconnect and reimagine our relationships with the more-than-human world. She approaches painting as a way of fostering interspecies kinship; an ongoing process of shifting perspectives, learning (and unlearning) how we coexist, and celebrating the earth we share.

Elena completed her Master of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney in 2025, where she was awarded the East Sydney Doctors Scholarship. She has been shortlisted in prizes such as The Macquarie Emerging Artist Award 2024 and the Paddington Art Prize 2024 where she received the Residency Prize. She won the 9x5 Waverley Landscape Prize in 2022.

Elena was an artist in residence in Japan at Studio Kura in 2026. She has also undertaken residencies around Australia at the Dunmoochin Art Foundation (VIC), Eramboo Artist Environment (NSW) and Beverley Station Arts (WA).