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
A visual storyteller at heart, Elise creates art about women and place. Drawing inspiration from history and her surroundings the work explores nostalgia, identity and our connection to the land. Her portraits often give voice to women whose stories were never told, revealing inner strength, beauty and quiet resilience.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne and a finalist in several art prizes, Elise blends traditional techniques with a contemporary sensibility. As she explains,
“I often like to incorporate sewing, stitching, lace and lettering in my work. Women have always helped shape the world—not always through grand gestures, but often through quiet and unseen work.”
Dividing her time between her city studio and a country workspace built from repurposed materials on the site of an old cowshed, Elise’s practice is grounded in reflection, renewal, and the stories that connect us all.
Elise’s CV
Exhibitions and Prizes
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 Korumburra Art show, ( Highly commended)
2017 Summer Exhibition, Hawthorn Gallery
2016 Summer Exhibition, Hawthorn Gallery
2016 Art Town, Chapel of Chapel
2016 St Kevins Art Show, Vic
2015 St Kevins Art Show, Vic
2014 A Synergy of Nature, Hawthorn Gallery