21.02.2026 Vernissage "Pelagia Noctiluca - A Quiet Metamorphosis" by Laura Ellenberger
Lauras work covers a fairly broad range of subjects, and she uses various mediums in response to her subject matter. One common thread throughout her work, is transformation - taking something and transforming it into something else. Using photography and light and time, the invisible becomes visible. Another thread throughout her work is paradox - the existence of one thing based on the existence of its opposite.
These works all originate from photograms she made using jellyfish she caught during a jellyfish bloom in Mallorca in 2021. In a darkroom environment, she used light sensitive paper and darkroom chemicals to develop the photogram exposures.
Jellyfish are transparent, and through the medium of photography and light, the invisible is made visible on the light sensitive paper. This small simple living structure, without a brain, a heart, blood or skeleton, here, could be mistaken for the universe, outer space , a complex system - eternity.
BIO Laura Ellenberger
Tertiary Education
2008-2011 BFA Honours (painting/drawing) National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1982-1986 Higher Diploma in Photography, Pretoria, South Africa
Residencies
2017 Hill End Residency, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
Awards
2012 awarded “Best of Honours 2011” one of six artists for a group show, Sydney, curated by Peter Johnson
1989 finalist for SAPPI Awards (South Africa paper and print Industry) for a published body of work – Photography 1985-1989 numerous (10) ILFORD Photographic award
1981 Solo show at the Ivan Solomon Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
Publications
2016 Inprint by Christina Z Anderson
1995 Terrance Conran HouseBook
Film
2021 Photographic stills in Laurence Edwards Documentary
Collections
Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
Works are in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and South Africa and London
Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2024 Nit d’art Felanitx Mallorca
2023 Nit d’art Felanitx Mallorca
2023 Winter show Everard Read London
2022 Group show Everard Read London
2021 Group show Birthday .MContemporary Sydney
2021 Salon, Portocolom
2020 Summer show Everard Read London
2020 Nit d’art Felanitx
2020 Obsolete and Discontinued, Verona, Italy,
2019 Skin of the Print, OxMarket Gallery, Chichester, UK
2019 Obsolete and Discontinued, Naples, Italy
2019 RevelaT Festival Barcelona
2018 Everard Read London, Summer Show 2018 Obsolete and Discontinued, London 2018 Everard Read London, Winter Show
2017 .MContemporary Gallery, Sydney Under $1000
2016 Everard Read London, Breath, long exposure photographs in the studio of Deborah Bell, artist http://www.circagallerylondon.com/ exhibition/14/ exhibition catalogue
2016 Cologne, Germany, Obsolete and Discontinued group photographic exhibition 2016 The Fitzrovia Gallery, London, Three Women Photographers
2016 Messum's, Cork Street, London - A Film in One Frame, alongside Laurence Edwards Sculptures
2016 RevelaT, Spain, Obsolete and Discontinued
2016 Doomed Gallery, London, LAPC Pinhole Festival Exhibition
2016 .MContemporary Gallery, Sydney
2015 Considered, group show, November .MContemporary Gallery, Sydney
2015 A Blue Show, September, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2015 Finalist with Honourable mention and online exhibition for Christina Anderson’s new Alternative Photography Book, Australia, launched in January 2016
2015 Mythology of my Land, May, MContemporary Gallery, Sydney 2015 Memories in Motion, March, .MContemporary Gallery, Sydney 2012 finalist in The Fisher’s Ghost Campbelltown Art Prize, Australia
2012 Honours Drawing 2011 group show, Hill End Gallery 2011 Group show, Drawing, Stairwell Gallery NAS
2010 Group Show, painting, building 25 NAS
2010 Heavy Metal, The Stairwell Gallery NAS - Bronze casting 2009 Landscape exhibition building 25 NAS, Sydney
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 1010 Artists of Mosman, Sydney – Painting 2006, 2007 Mosman Festival , Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney – Painting 2006 Finalist Mosman Art Prize
2005 The Mall Galleries London – Painting Awards
Solo Exhibitions
1985/86 ‘The Other Side of Midnight’, The Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg
1985 ‘The Other Side of Midnight’, Ivan Solomon Gallery, Pretoria
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