Elena Churilova: Hippeastrum

$2,300.00

Titled: Hippeastrum, 2024
Oil on triple primed canvas,
51cm x 40cm

Elena Churilova – Artist Bio

Russian-born and Australia-based, Elena Churilova is an award-winning visual artist known for her intuitive and imaginative approach to oil, pastel, gouache, and watercolour painting. Her work blends reality with fantasy, often inspired by nature, memory, and emotion.

Since relocating to Australia in 2006, Elena has built a strong presence in the national art scene, exhibiting widely and receiving numerous accolades. She has been a finalist and winner in prestigious competitions including the SWELL Sculpture Festival, The Doyles Art Award, The John Villiers Outback Art Prize, and the Bentley Art Prize, among many others.

A member of the National Association for the Visual Arts, Elena’s works are held in private collections across Europe, the USA, Australia, and Russia. Her recent solo exhibitions—Identities, Everywhen, and To Australia with Love—reflect her evolving exploration of cultural narrative and personal transformation.

Elena continues to gain recognition for her expressive visual storytelling and her ability to move between mediums with mastery and vision.

Awards

2025

  • Winner (1st Place in Portrait Prize) in the Hunter Valley Operations Prize, Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
  • Winner (2nd Place) in the United Wambo Glencore Still Life Prize, Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
  • Winner (2nd Place in Works on Paper category) in the Woollam Art Prize, Mackay, QLD
  • Highly Commended award in the national Doyles Art Award 2025, Mudgeeraba (Gold Coast), QLD
  • Winner of Peoples’ Choice Award at the Facets Live Portrait Competition, Toowoomba, QLD
  • Finalist in the Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Art Prize 2025, Brisbane, QLD
  • Finalist in the Fairholme Open Arts Prize – Facets, Toowoomba, QLD
  • Finalist in the Small Wonders exhibition, Red Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
  • Finalist in the ‘Mission To Seafarers’ Maritime Art Prize 2025, Newcastle, NSW
  • Finalist at SWELL Art Prize 2025, Currumbin, QLD
  • Finalist in the Brisbane Rotary Art Show 2025, Brisbane, QLD
  • Finalist (‘Best 30 paintings’) in the Australian Watercolour Muster Biennale Exhibition 2025, Cairns, QLD

2024

  • Winner of the Burnie Smith Memorial Award (Works on paper) in the Brigalow Arts Festival, Banana Shire Regional Gallery, Biloela, QLD
  • Highly Commended in the EKKA Royal Queensland Show 2024 (class Traditional Watercolour, Painting & Drawing Competition), Brisbane, QLD
  • Winner in the major prize in the Bentley Art Prize 2024 (The Richmond Dairies Australian Landscape Acquisitive Painting Prize), Bentley, NSW
  • Winner of the Richmond Valley Council Acquisition Painting Prize in the Bentley Art Prize 2024, Bentley, NSW
  • Winner of Dr Castagna Acquisition Portrait Drawing Prize in the Bentley Art Prize 2024, Bentley, NSW
  • Winner of the Richmond Regional Library Acquisition Prize in the Bentley Art Prize 2024, Bentley, NSW
  • Category winner (2nd place) in two categories in the Annual Art Awards, Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery, Springsure, QLD
  • Category winner (2nd place) in the Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
  • Highly Commended in the CasinoRSM Club Acquisition Painting Prize, Bently, NSW
  • Highly Commended in the Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
  • Finalist in The Doyles Art Award 2024, Mudgeeraba (Gold Coast), QLD
  • Finalist in The Fairholme Open Arts Prize – Facets, Toowoomba, QLD
  • Finalist in The John Villiers Outback Art Prize 2024, Winton, QLD
  • Finalist in the Signature Art Prize 2024, Armidale, NSW

2023

  • Finalist in The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art (QCA), Brisbane

2021

  • Merit Award in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD
  • Highly Commended in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD
  • Highly Commended in the Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery Awards, Springsure, QLD

2020

  • Winner of the Pamela Whitlock Memorial Acquisitive Award in the 45th Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards, Gladstone, QLD
  • Winner of the Moore Australia Acquisition Award in the Brigalow Arts Festival, Biloela, QLD
  • LimeLife 500 Grant sponsored by Latitude 23 Arts Inc and Arts Central Qld Inc.
  • Highly Commended in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD
  • Finalist in the CQU Creates art exhibition, CQU, Rockhampton, QLD

2019

  • Category Winner in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald,
  • Category Winner in the Annual Art Awards, Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery, Springsure, QLD
  • Category Winner in the 43rd Annual Art Competition and Exhibition, Blackwater, QLD
  • Highly commended in the Blackall Cultural Association’s Annual Art Exhibition & Competition, Blackall, QLD

2018

  • Winner of the Central Highlands Regional Council Acquisitive Art Award, Emerald, QLD
  • Category Winner in the 42nd Annual Art Competition and Exhibition, Blackwater
  • Category Winner in the Brigalow Arts Festival, Biloela, QLD
  • Highly Commended in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD

2017

  • Special Merit Category Winner at the 7th International  “Figurative” Art Exhibition (April 2017).