Eliza Baker is a Melbourne-based artist (b. 2003) originally from rural New South Wales. Through her practice, Baker seeks to transform intimate emotional experiences into shared encounters, using art as a conduit for connection and resilience. Presented across gallery, site-specific, and community contexts, her work invites viewers into spaces of tenderness and reflection, where vulnerability and joy coexist.
“To be affected with joy can be to be filled with possibility, with energy, with life. Joy opens up futures, it is about what follows what.”- Sara Ahmed
My multi-modal practice spans painting, textiles, installation, performance, and photography. Drawing from personal memory, relationships, and lived experience. I explore themes of queerness, grief, embodiment, and joy as resistance. My work reflects on how creative acts can hold space for mourning while insisting on persistence, pleasure, and collective healing.
My ongoing inquiry into the politics of feeling and the body foregrounds art-making as both a personal act of care and a collective gesture toward survival and resistance. My practice is attentive to the privileges that inform access to space, visibility, and voice, recognising how these conditions shape both the possibilities and responsibilities of making. Through my work, I examine how grief and joy coexist as intertwined forces of transformation. Each gesture becomes a way of re-imagining how to live, and create within, and beyond, loss.
The people, memories, and experiences that are forever lost to me live within my practice. They live within the performances I do and the costumes I make.
They live within the way I carry myself, adjust my shoulders, walk into a room, make jokes, connect,
laugh,
create,
grieve.
love,
They live within the joy that surrounds me.
This work was created on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung Peoples of the Kulin Nation.
inquiries: elizabakerart@gmail.com
more of me: https://www.instagram.com/elizabakerart/