Elif Sezen
Name
Elif Sezen
Culture
Australian
Gender
Female
Birth date
1981
Birth place
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map
Movements
Turkey 1992-2007
Occupations
Artist (painter) | Book artist (book arts) | Photographer | Poet | Printmaker | Writer
Summary
Worked: Australia (VIC); Turkey
Context
Australia
Web
Biography
Elif Sezen was born in Melbourne in 1981, of Turkish parents. She moved with her family to Turkey in 1992 where she studied painting and sculpture obtaining her Masters Degree at the University of Dokuz Eylul (Izmir). Returning to Melbourne in 2007 she obtained her PhD in Fine Art from Monash University (Melbourne).
Elif Sezen is an Australian/Turkish multidisciplinary artist, bilingual writer and poet, based in Melbourne. She holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash University. Her practice evolves through various media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, print media, installation, digital media, music, artist’s books and poetry. In her work she speculates upon strategies of self-representation, transcendence, multifaceted integration and healing by poeticising and reconceptualising memory traces emerging from familial, personal, collective trauma, displacement and loss. This explorative process leads her to a restorative and even a celebrative notion of self-construction, desire, longing and a sense of homecoming.
[Elif Sezen, 2024].
Last Updated
03 Nov 2024