Zoe Ellenberg

Zoe Ellenberg is a Melbourne artist who has spent much of her career travelling and exhibiting around the world. Nature is Ellenberg’s inspiration and muse with a special passion for the wild and vibrant elements of the tropics. Birds and insects feature amongst the flowers, leaves and busy mayhem of the tropical vistas, abstracted into impressionistic scenes. Ellenberg has a special interest in the meeting places between the reef and the rainforest, the mountains and the sea, and where the abundance of nature bursts into flower and birdsong. This passion has led her to the rainforests of Cape Tribulation of far north Queensland, Buderim Queensland, Bali Lombok, the Gillis Indonesia, Vietnam and the South Pacific.

“Corals, mangroves, swamps, forests, ferneries, epiphytes and orchids are my 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 Ellenberg

Solo Exhibitions

2024 - ‘Bird Song’, Anthea Polson Art - Main Beach, QLD, AU
2020 - ‘Enchanted Garden’, Vernissage Art - Prahran, VIC, AU
2019 - Nissarana Gallery - Mornington, VIC, AU
2019 - Without Pier Gallery - Cheltenham, VIC, AU
2018 - ‘Zoe Ellenberg’, Soho Gallery - Sydney, NSW, AU
2015 - ‘Zoe Ellenberg’, Without Pier Gallery - Cheltenham, VIC, AU
2014 - ‘New Works by Zoe Ellenberg’, Joshua McClelland Print Room - Carlton, VIC, AU
2006 - ‘Zoe Ellenberg’, Delshan Art Gallery - Armadale, VIC, AU
2002 - ‘Recent Work’, Delshan Art Gallery - Armadale, VIC, AU
1999 - ‘Sculptures and Bali Paintings’, Joshua McClelland Print Room - Carlton, VIC, AU
1999 - ‘Female Attitude’, Sika Gallery - Ubud, Indonesia

Group Exhibitions

2017 - ‘Artisans in the Garden’, Royal Botanic Garden - Sydney, NSW, AU
2017 - Without Pier Gallery - Cheltenham, VIC, AU
2015 - Soho Gallery - Sydney, NSW, AU
2013 - Tusk Gallery - South Yarra, VIC, AU
2012 - Without Pier Gallery - Cheltenham, VIC, AU
2011 - ‘Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by Zoe & Joshua Ellenberg’, Smartartz Gallery - South Melbourne, VIC, AU
2011 - ‘Indoor Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition’, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery - Port Melbourne, VIC, AU
2011 - ‘ASV Annual Sculpture Exhibition’, The Light Factory Gallery - Eltham, VIC, AU
2010 - Melbourne International Garden Show - Carlton, VIC, AU
2010 - ‘ASV Association’, The Elliot ASV Gallery - South Yarra, VIC, AU
2010 - ‘ASV Annual Sculpture Exhibition’, The Light Factory Gallery - Eltham, VIC, AU
2001 - Manyung Gallery - Mt Eliza, VIC, AU
2001 - Hybrid Delshan Art Gallery - Armadale, VIC, AU
2000 - ‘Y2Artists’, Delshan Art Gallery - Armadale, VIC, AU
1998 - ‘Female Form’, The Jackman Gallery - St. Kilda, VIC, AU

Art Fairs

2019 - ‘Vernissage Art’, The Affordable Art Fair - Melbourne, VIC, AU
2017 - The Other Art Fair - Sydney, NSW, AU
2007 - The Sydney Art Fair - Sydney, NSW, AU

Awards/Qualifications

2015 - Deakin Small Sculpture Award (Finalist) - Melbourne, VIC, AU
2011 - Melbourne International Garden Show (Commendation) - Melbourne, VIC, AU
2010 - ASV Annual Exhibition Delchem Pty Ltd (First Prize) - Eltham, VIC, AU
2010 - Deakin Small Sculpture Award (Finalist) - Melbourne, VIC, AU
1996 - ASV Andor Meszaros Sculpture Award (2nd Prize) - Melbourne, VIC, AU
1995 - BA, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne