Elena Duff is a visual artist and musician based in Ireland

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

ART
Working with painting, soft sculpture, video, sound and performance, she builds surreal scenes, ceremonial objects and immersive installations that ask viewers to step into surreal and strange worlds which teeter along 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, Duff has qualifications in audio engineering and music production (Sound Training College, Dublin) and has worked on large-scale festival installations, as mural artist and on community art projects.

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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