Finalist
2026 Lethbridge Small Scale Works
Salon Des Refuse
Finalist
2025 Maldon Portrait Prize
Finalist
2024 Lethbridge Small Scale Works
Salon Des Refuse
Finalist
2024 Lethbridge Landscape Prize
Salon Des Refuse
Finalist
2022 Percival Portrait
Finalist
2022 SBS Portrait Prize
Finalist
2022 Art Lovers Australia
Finalist
2021 SBS Portrait Prize
Finalist
2021 ANL Maritime Prize
Finalist
2020 Gallipoli Prize
Finalist
2020 Percival Portrait Prize
Finalist
2020 SBS Portrait Prize
Winner
2019 Waverley Art Prize
Finalist
2019 SBS Portrait Prize
Finalist
2018 Percival Portrait Prize
Elise Judd, Artist
Elise Judd is an Australian artist who works between Adelaide, Melbourne and Gippsland. She creates paintings and mixed media textile works inspired by women's stories, her family connections to Australia’s convict past and the Australian landscape.
Beginning with reading and research, her work often draws on historical accounts, portraiture and place. Sewing, stitching, lace and lettering regularly feature in her practice, reflecting an interest in the ways stories are recorded, remembered and passed on.
Elise studied Visual Arts at the University of Melbourne and has been selected as a finalist in several art prizes.
Elise’s CV
Exhibitions and Prizes
2025 Maldon Portrait Prize, Maldon
2025 Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne
2025 Gifts of Gippsland, Storehouse Gallery
2024 Fifty Squared, Brunswick Street Gallery
2024 Lethbridge, Salon Des Refuses (small Scale works)
2024 Lethbridge, Salon Des Refuses (landscape)
2024 Artist In Residence - Loch
2023 Goddesses Among Us, Malvern Artists Society
2023 Fiercely Feminine (Art Lovers Australia)
2022, 2020, 2018 Percival Portrait (Finalist)
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 SBS Portrait Show (Finalist)
2022 Art Lovers Australia (Finalist)
2021 The Flower Market, Traffic Jam Gallery, Sydney
2021 ANL Maritime Art Prize (Finalist)
2020 Gallipoli Art Prize (Finalist)
2020 ANL Maritime Art Prize (Finalist)
2020 Toowoomba Grammar Art Show
2020 Untitled, Group Show, Traffic Jam Gallery, Sydney
2020 Cool Art, Summer Exhibition, Without Pier Gallery
2019 Waverley Art Prize, NSW (Winner) (Awarded the Mayors Price)
2019 ‘Silent Resilience’, Meeniyan Gallery
2019 Summer Exhibition, Hawthorn Gallery
2017 ‘Norma Bull Portrait Prize’, (Finalist)
2017 The Great Souther Portrait Exhibition, Foster
2017 Christmas Show, Cambridge Gallery, Collingwood
2017 Who’s Looking at You, Cambridge Gallery, Collingwood
( Winner-People’s Choice Award)
2017 Summer Exhibition, Hawthorn Gallery
2016 Summer Exhibition, Hawthorn Gallery