Elena Duff is a visual artist and musician based in Ireland

Artworks that move between ritual, folklore and contemporary practice forming strange and liminal worlds.

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ART
Working with painting, soft sculpture, video, sound and performance, Elena Duff builds surreal scenes, ceremonial objects and immersive installations that invite viewers to step into surreal and strange worlds and inhabit the liminal space between the whimsical and the unsettling.

Her recent practice integrates paintings or handmade sculptural elements with experimental music composition using field recordings, her own vocals and various hardware devices, creating audio-visual works.

Elena holds a BA in Fine Art and Art History from NCAD (1995) and has received awards from The Arts Council of Ireland and Cavan Arts. Her work is held in the Cavan County Collection and private collections in Ireland and Germany. She has exhibited across Ireland, the UK and Germany and complected residencies at Lakkos Project, Crete.

In addition to her studio practice, Elena has qualifications in audio engineering music production and festival production (Sound Training College, Dublin). She has worked on large-scale festival installations, on community art projects and as mural artist.

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Audiovisual sketches and sound compositions

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MUSIC
As Darkling Moon Elena creates acoustic folk songs with a touch of experimentation. Vesperella is explorations into electronic music. Listen here

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