Elliot Love’s photo-realistic cityscapes combine extraordinary technique and seemingly very ordinary subjects, depicting the sort of scenes we see all the time but rarely notice. A cluster of trees between two suburban houses, the back of an industrial warehouse, a nearly empty carpark, a rusty vehicle left abandoned near the river. The centrally placed cars in each painting represent memories from Love’s younger years, symbolic of steps into adulthood, departures, and inevitable change; many viewers will likely experience unexpected flickers of memory themselves — and the lack of human figures perhaps emphasises how difficult it is, as time marches on, to go back to any place when the people we remember are no longer there.
- Laura Elliott, Otago Daily Times
Solo Exhibitions:
2025 | Solo Exhibition | Parnell Gallery, Auckland
2023 | “Entropy” | Solo Exhibition | Parnell Gallery, Auckland
2021 | Solo Exhibition | The Artists Room, Dunedin
Group Exhibitions:
2025 | Aotearoa Art Fair | Parnell Gallery, Auckland
2024/25 | Solstice | Group Exhibition | Milford Galleries, Queenstown
2024 | Neo I | Group Exhibition | Milford Galleries, Queenstown
2024 | Art House Tour | Group Exhibition | Auckland Grammar
2024 | Studio 18D | Group Exhibition | Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2022 | Joint Exhibition with Gemma Campbell | The Artists Room, Dunedin
2020 | “Three Realists” | Joint Exhibition with Alice and John Toomer | The Artists Room, Dunedin
2020 | Guest Artist | Craigs Aspiring Art Prize, Wanaka
Awards:
Best “Urban” Landscape, Aspiring Art Prize, 2019