Ellen Dahl

Ellen Dahl is originally from arctic Norway and of Sámi descent. Ellen moved to Australia as an adult and now lives and works on Gadigal land (Sydney) NSW. Working across photography, video, sound and installation, much of her practice is rooted in working with or around the landscape, while conceptually informed by trepidation on around the anthropogenic condition. She has an ongoing interest in the photographic medium’s intrinsic involvement in how we see and feel about the world around us and its potential to engage new conditions for assembling ecological meaning and geological imagination. 

Ellen has exhibited extensively throughout Australia, including Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; ANU Gallery, Canberra; Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, and Verge Gallery, Sydney. She is the winner of MAMA National Photography Prize 2024., and has been finalist in The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship (2021), HIDDEN sculpture Award (2022), The Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Photographic Award (2022), Hazelhurst Works on Paper (2021), and won the judges Commendation prize in the Contemporary Landscapes in Photography award (CLIP) in 2017. Ellen received an MFA (research) from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney and is currently completing her PhD at School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania.