Landscape #5

This painting belongs to a series of vibrant abstract landscapes with ethereal, surreal, celestial and psychedelic impressions, offering alternate visions of reality. Elif Sezen combines various painting techniques, blurring the line between fantasy and reality in dreamlike atmospheres. Her evocative landscapes offer a fresh perspective of a sense of place, inviting audiences into immersive, otherworldly environments. Colour becomes a subtle energetic force, guiding viewers through states of awareness, contemplation and healing. Although partly reminiscent of nature, these ethereal worlds expand the intangible experience of entering a new space physically, spiritually, psychologically, ontologically, cosmologically.        

Elif Sezen is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, writer/poet. She holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash. For over a decade, Elif has been investigating possibilities of reconceptualising and poeticising memory traces, existential states and a sense of place through poetry-based installations, photographic and sculptural works, paintings, digital media and mixed-media landscapes/mindscapes. Her landscapes explore otherworldly atmospheres with abstract, surreal, ethereal, celestial and psychedelic impressions. Her work conjures dreamlike atmospheres—ranging from imagined galaxies and symbolic geometries to surreal, abstract forms—inviting audiences into immersive, otherworldly environments.

Elif’s works are held in private collections. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo show at Five Walls (2025), and group shows at JAHM (Recent acquisitions display 2026), Fox Yard Studio - UK (2026), Five Walls (2026), The Museum of Australian Photography - MAPh (2025), The Museum of Art and Culture Yapang (MAC Yapang Art Prize 2025), Yarra Sculpture Gallery (2025), Project8 Gallery (2024), The National Portrait Gallery Canberra (Darling Portrait Prize 2024), CICA Museum Korea (2024) and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program (2023–2024).