Elliot Collins
Elliot Collins is an artist, researcher, and tutor who works across a range of media within the visual arts. He gained a practice-led Ph.D. from AUT University in 2019, researching Memory Markers in the Landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand.
His interests focus on ideas of present/absent texts within ‘memory markers’ in Aotearoa New Zealand, alongside motifs that represent distinctive forms of meaning-making narratives. Collins’ practice references poetry and language, the naming of things, as well as memorials, memory, and time. He aims to expand ways of recording and documenting silences in relation to the environment and cultural narratives, contributing to expanded knowledges.
Born in Tāmaki Makaurau in 1983, he now lives and works in Waitara, North Taranaki with his wife, son, and dog, on the whenua of Te Ātiawa.
