Elm Macpherson is a multi-disciplinary creative working in an array of mediums across a multitude of projects. Working as an independent artist developing a portfolio of solo and collaborative work with like minded makers across illustration, performance, photography and video. Primarily known for explorative genre work that melds classical understandings of the Gothic and modern reflections of queerness, to tell both relatable and strange stories.
Completing their Bachelor of Design Arts (Visual Arts) LCI Melbourne in 2020, Elm has proceeded to work prolifically in exploratory mediums. Debuting in the same year their solo performance work Fortune at Melbourne Fringe, then touring in 2021 with Midsumma festival. They’ve worked within the Infinity Ensemble as a collaborator, performer and writer. Showcasing the titanic multimedia explosion of Anything & Everything in 2022 at Melbourne’s Rising festival, after a successful smaller showing in 2020 with the Substation.
Currently developing their performance practice with new work like ‘Devour’ 2023, and returning to publication with an upcoming book ‘Who’s afraid of the Deep, Dark Forest?’. They also work as a freelance designer and photographer in Melbourne’s gaming scene, notably with Midnight in Melbourne as their staff artist.
EXHIBITIONS + SHOWings
2023 she belonged to your mother, summer salon, ccp, melbourne
2023 Devour, Queer showcase, collarts, melbourne
2023 Anything & Everything, Infinity Ensemble, International Online Theatre Festival, The Theatre Times
2022 Reflections, After Walter Hopps, Platform Arts, Geelong
2022 Spectre, Scaffolding Cinema, Two Sixty, Brunswick
2022 Anything & Everything, Infinity Ensemble, Rising Festival, Melbourne
2021 Fortune, Midsumma, Digital Event
2020 Fortune, Melbourne Fringe, Digital Fringe
2020 Anything & Everything, Infinity, Presented by The Substation with Platform Arts
2019 ‘Why the Fuck not?’, group exhibition, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne
2019 ‘Who’s Line is it anyway?’, Group Exhibition, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne
2023 she belonged to your mother, summer salon, ccp, melbourne
2023 Devour, Queer showcase, collarts, melbourne
2023 Anything & Everything, Infinity Ensemble, International Online Theatre Festival, The Theatre Times
2022 Reflections, After Walter Hopps, Platform Arts, Geelong
2022 Spectre, Scaffolding Cinema, Two Sixty, Brunswick
2022 Anything & Everything, Infinity Ensemble, Rising Festival, Melbourne
2021 Fortune, Midsumma, Digital Event
2020 Fortune, Melbourne Fringe, Digital Fringe
2020 Anything & Everything, Infinity, Presented by The Substation with Platform Arts
2019 ‘Why the Fuck not?’, group exhibition, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne
2019 ‘Who’s Line is it anyway?’, Group Exhibition, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne
AWARDS
2023 Commendation - Safety & Inclusion, Collarts
2021 LCI Melbourne Professional Excellence award, LCI Melbourne
2020 LCI Melbourne Service Award, LCI Melbourne
2020 Hume Arts Award Recipient, Council of Hume
2017 Artistic Excellence in Studio Arts, Craigieburn Secondary College, Craigieburn
2017 Rotary Award for Communal Art, Craigieburn Secondary College, Craigieburn