Elif Sezen

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Name

Elif Sezen

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

1981

Birth place

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

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Movements

Turkey 1992-2007

Occupations

Artist (painter) | Book artist (book arts) | Photographer | Poet | Printmaker | Writer

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC); Turkey

Context

Australia

Web

https://www.elifsezen.com/

Website

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