Elissa Jane Diver Artist

03/10/2024

Brighton Photo Fringe opens tomorrow night! At the collectives hub in Phoenix Art Space I will be showing for the first time with HOLD. We are a collective of four artists exploring our relationship to the natural world. I will be showing new work “Matkamuisto” [finnish - souvenir] which explores the ways in which photographs can create a longing for places or experiences now beyond reach.

It’s an absolute joy to be showing with



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Phoenix Art Space
Waterloo Place
Brighton
Opening Friday 4th 6pm - 8pm
Wednesday to Sunday 10-5pm until November 17th

04/06/2024

I’ve been invited to talk at the next Photo Fringe meeting on June 18th at Phoenix Art Studios. I’ll be sharing my experience of exhibiting at Photo Fringe 2022 and talking about my practice. Come along!

Photo Fringe Artist Talk and Meet Up:
Elissa Jane Diver

Tuesday 18 June 2024
Phoenix Art Space, White Room
Waterloo Place, Brighton
6pm-8pm (talk at 6.30pm)

Everyone welcome

Thinking about self-organising and curating your own Photo Fringe exhibition this October? Come on down to our social and hear experienced Photo Fringer Elissa Jane Diver talk about her extraordinary practice and how she went about staging her Photo Fringe exhibition Wilding, in 2022.

Doors open from 6pm. Join us in Phoenix’s Canvas Café before and after the talk for chat and the chance to ask us your questions about putting on your exhibition and/or event.

Pay as you feel tickets from £1 available via Eventbrite (link in bio).

Photo Fringe Danny Wilson Memorial Award Winner, Elissa Jane Diver studied Photography at the University of Brighton, receiving BA First Class Honours in 2012. After working as a photographer and raising two boys, she returned to education and graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA Photography) in 2022, with a distinction for her dissertation exploring notions of the wild in art and culture.

For her project Wilding, shown at The Regency Town House during Photo Fringe 2022, Elissa spent time at Knepp Rewilding Project in West Sussex where she had been walking for the previous two years. It takes its name from the book Wilding by Isabella Tree.

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13/10/2023

Last day tomorrow to see "Unnatural Women" at the Women in Art Fair. Open from 10am to 4pm.

09/10/2023

The inaugural edition of Women In Art Fair opens in London from 11-14 October.

This year's event redresses years of gender imbalance across the arts and creative industries, tapping into a long history of pioneering women behind the lens.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/46ma3Wc

Image: Elissa Jane Diver

28/09/2023

I am excited to be exhibiting work in "Unnatural Women", at The Mall Galleries October 11th-14th. This exhibition runs alongside the inaugural Women in Art Fair. "Curated by artist and editor Rowena Easton, the exhibition boasts a lineup of celebrated figures like Paula Rego and Marcelle Hanselaar, as well as established and mid-career talents including Abigail Norris, Olivia Bullock, and Geraldine Swayne."

15/04/2023

Opening 25th May I will be showing work at Meat Market #2 curated by The show takes place in a disused butcher’s shop in Deptford and is in two parts with the artists who are exhibiting in the first week selecting the artists for the second. Thank you to for the invite.

05/02/2023

Self-portrait ‘Rut’ at the Saatchi Gallery

Thanks to for the photos and for the opportunity and to for the pleasure of showing my work next to her extraordinary paintings.

05/02/2023

Beyond Silver has been extended until February 10th so you have until this Friday to catch it at The Hive Vittoria Street Birmingham.

Exhibition opening times:

Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 3.30pm. (Cafe open hours)

The London Alternative Photography Collective present “Beyond Silver”, an exhibition that explores the relationships between analogue photography and metallurgy. The exhibition will consider the use of silver in photography, as well as shining a light on many of the other metals that are used within photographic image production, in both historical and contemporary practice. In addition to silver, the exhibition will include works which utilise lesser known metals in photography including iron, copper, tin, aluminium, platinum and palladium.

23/01/2023

20/01/2023

Beyond Silver

I currently have work on display in this group show “Beyond Silver” and I travelled to Birmingham this week for the opening where I had the pleasure of meeting many of the participating artists. We all share an interest in experimentation with photographic techniques and there was a fantastic atmosphere, with open sharing of information and enthusiasm in particular for sustainable methods of image production. Beyond Silver is presented by The London Alternative Photography Collective. The exhibition explores the relationships between analogue photography and metallurgy and considers the use of silver in photography, as well as shining a light on many of the other metals that are used within photographic image production, in both historical and contemporary practice, including iron, copper, tin, aluminium, platinum and palladium. My toned cyanotypes, which are made using an iron-based process, are on display until February 6th.

07/12/2022

Feature of Wilding