Elena Papanikolakis is a visual artist based in Sydney, Australia, whose practice operates within painting, collage, drawing and photography. She is interested in methods of reprocessing personal and found information in the search for new visual spaces, and searches for meaning and direction through interchanging processes. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) Honours (First Class) from the Australian National University School of Art in 2007, and has since had number of group and solo exhibition in Australia, including at Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces (Melbourne), Trocadero Art Space (Melbourne), Canberra Contemporary Art Space (Canberra) and Sawtooth ARI (Launceston). She was recently a finalist in the 2015 Art on Paper Award at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, and is a current studio resident at Parramatta Artist Studios.
