Elke Finkenauer is a visual artist of Aotearoa / New Zealand and German descent. She works across drawing, text, digital mediums, sculpture and print, examining incongruities within social and professional structures and the ways people navigate them.
Her making process is iterative, driven by thought experiments, improvisation, and a keen sense of the ludicrous. The results of this practice have been displayed as bead curtains, digital narratives, padded doors, soft-drawings, handmade books, and unnameable objects.
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Awards & Competitions
2022
Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals
Glasgow Visual Artist and Craft Maker Bursary
2021
Creative Scotland Digital Pivot
2019
Finalist in the Wallace Art Awards, New Zealand
Glasgow Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award
2016
West Dean Tapestry Commission Open Call, Commendation
2015
Finalist in the Wallace Art Awards, New Zealand
2014
Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize (student)
Residencies
2021
The Forest Arts | Edinburgh (digital residency)
2018
Hospitalfield Summer Residency | Arbroath
Commissions
2019
What I see from here | Commissioned by Friends of Garnethiill Green Spaces, Glasgow
2016
Transitional Line | Commissioned by Auckland Council, New Zealand
Education
2015
Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
Gilbert Bayes Postgraduate Scholarship
2013
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Art
Joe Raynes Scholarship for Painting, Drawing or Design
2008-11
Diploma in Art and Craft, Hungry Creek Art and Craft School
A long time ago
Bachelor of Business Studies, Auckland University of Technology
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Doing Data | Creative Informatics: Creative Horizon 4 | Inspace, Edinburgh
2021
Heavy Lifting | GOHAF2021
2019
Quality Sleep, Harmony Life! | Edinburgh Art Festival
Something to Remember | Elke Finkenauer & Alexis Neal | The Suter Gallery, Nelson
Members Club | The Booth at Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
2018
Something to Remember | Elke Finkenauer & Alexis Neal | Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
2016
Digital Romance | CitizenM, Selected Works, Glasgow
The colour of your heart | Studio One, Auckland
2015
Awkmo | A collaboration with Natalie Doyle for Glasgow Open House Art Festival
2014
Aesthetica Art Prize | St Mary's York
2013
Draw a Line Somewhere | Sanderson Contemporary Art Project Window, Auckland
Solo Exhibitions
2023
BitParts | online
2019
Knock Knock | Featured Artist at Glasgow Print Studio
2018
Priscilla (75) & Friends: a portrait | #24hourwindow, Glasgow
2017
Saturday Safari | Glasgow Project Room
trade | online
2016
Approximately Bacon | The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow
2015
escape (!) in association with El Refri | Govanhill Baths, Glasgow
Going Spare | Lust and the Apple, Midlothian