Born in Sydney, Australia, to a French father and Australian mother, Eloise showed her first creative urges at around 20 months of age. According to the often recounted story, she painted big chocolate brown sweeping strokes over the freshly painted yellow walls of the house in the south of France where her family lived briefly, while her parents ate lunch in the garden outside. She managed to cover herself in paint in the process and was afterwards kept out of mischief by keeping the rabbits company in their cage!
Eloise now uses her trusty Elna sewing machine (and good old needle and thread of course) and her beloved twin-lens Rolleiflex to express her creative visions. She thanks her mother for instilling in her a passion for fabrics and fashion, having watched her mother make clothes from a very young age. In Eloise's memory her mother was always the best-dressed mother at school meetings and to this day her original sense of style is one of Eloise's principle inspirations.
Eloise shares her love of photography with her father who had a graphics gallery as she grew up. He was instrumental in encouraging her sensitivity around how to really look and see the world. She remembers her intense curiosity outside the closed door of the darkroom under her grandparents' house where her father and grandfather would spend hours, emerging to look at their prints in the house upstairs. She wanted to know what they were doing down there in the darkness.
Many years later it has been Eloise's absolute privilege to return to UTS, where she first learnt photography under Bruce Hart, to teach the fundamentals of black and white photography to a bunch of eager students.
She has an equally creative younger sister who inspires her consistently, as do her amazingly talented group of friends spread all over the world. They have all helped Eloise refine her vision somehow. Special thanks to Marco for his help in setting up this website.
