Ellen Dahl is a visual artist, researcher, and educator originally from the Arctic north of Norway. She now lives and works on Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia. Dahl’s practice is rooted in working with and around the landscape, with photography’s intrinsic role in shaping how we see and feel the world underpinning her projects. She continually explores the expanded field of the photographic medium and its potential to assemble new forms of ecological meaning and geological imagination. Her work also examines the medium’s relationship to time, which she explores across photography, video and still-motion, sound, and installation.

 

Dahl is the recipient of the prestigious biannual MAMA National Photography Prize (2024). She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2015), where she is a sessional lecturer in Screen Arts, and a PhD from the School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania (2024).

 

Represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY 

https://thisisnofantasy.com​​​​

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Selected Exhibitions:

Spring 1883 Art Fair: presented by THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne August 2025

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On Water and Time: a Glacier Leaves a Deep Cut: Solo exhibition with poet Hannah Jenkins, Verge Gallery, Sydney Australia April - May 2025 

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2025 No Fantasy: group show, THIS IS NO FANTASY gallery,  Melbourne Australia February - March 2025

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Symbiotic Ecologies: group show, Delmar Gallery, Sydney November - December 2024

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The Edge of Time: solo exhibition, THIS IS NO FANTASY,  Melbourne Australia October - November 2024

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Unseen Photography Fair: solo exhibition presented by THIS IS NO FANTASY,  Amsterdam Netherlands 19 - 22 September 2024 

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The Fake Lake: solo exhibition, Sydenham International, Sydney Australia June/July 2024

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MAMA National Photography Prize 2024 (winner): Finalist exhibition, Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia. March - September 2024​​

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Unruly Edges: three persons show, co-curator/artist, Firstdraft, Sydney Australia April - May 2024

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Field Notes from the Edge PhD Examination Exhibition: solo show, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart , Australia August 2023

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Landscape and Psyche: group show, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Australia March - April 2023

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as Below so Above: solo show, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Australia October 2022

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Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship 2021 finalist exhibition: SCA University of Sydney, Australia February 2022

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Liminal: group show, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Australia March 2022

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Altering the Edges: solo show PhotoAccess, Canberra Australia May 2021

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Field Notes from the Edge: solo show, Peacock Gallery, Auburn Sydney Australia July 2020

 

all things are water: group show, The Lockup, Newcastle Australia December 2019​

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Light Matter: group show co-curator/artist. Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Australia August 2019

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Light Matter Symposium: Co-coordinator (with Australian Centre for Photography). Symposium on the expanded field of contemporary photography, University of Technology (UTS) Sydney Australia August 2019

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Vanishing Point part 3: group show co-curator/artist, ANU SOAD Gallery, Canberra Australia. May 2019

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Resurfaced Geographies: three persons show, Verge Gallery, Sydney Australia April 2019

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The Call: duo show, Wellington St Projects, Sydney Australia November 2018

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Beyond Bestimmung part 2: solo show PhotoAccess, Canberra Australia June 2018

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Beyond Bestimmung: solo show Airspace Projects, Marrickville Sydney Australia May 2018

 

Vanishing Point part 2: group show co-curator/artist Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Greater Sydney Australia April-June 2018

 

I Can See For Miles: group show curated by Talia Smith, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia March 2018

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Vanishing Point: co-curator/artist, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth July 2017

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This Is Where We Meet: solo show AirSpace Projects, Sydney November 2016

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This Was Now Here: curator/artist, group show Kings Artist Run, Melbourne August 2016​​

 

On Shifting Ground: SCA Galleries University of Sydney, Sydney December 2014

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