Lina Eve

Lina Eve (born 1946), an Australian artist, adoption activist, singer/songwriter, photographer and film maker, has been exhibiting and selling her work locally, nationally and internationally since 1994.

Life and work

Lina Eve was born in Germany to Polish parents in 1946. Her father was a Holocaust survivor, and, to escape war torn Europe, the family immigrated to Australia in 1951. At 17 years old, pregnant and unmarried, she lost her first child to Forced Adoption In Australia in 1964.

Leaving Australia to get over the trauma of losing her baby, Lina travelled back to Europe where she led a colourful and diverse life as a kibbutz worker in Israel, a folk-singer in London, a model in Greece and Paris, and a silversmith travelling overland between Europe and the East. She’s worked as a vegetarian cook in an Italian restaurant in India, a civil marriage celebrant and counsellor in Australia, a singer/songwriter, photographer, visual artist, and, most recently, as a film maker.

Returning to Australia after seven years in Europe and the East, Lina was involved in a car accident which killed two close friends and left her with multiple fractures and head injuries. After a long recovery period she moved to the Australian countryside, eventually having two more children, and building a house in a forest of Northern New South Wales Rainbow Region.

Lina Eve started painting in 1994 studying Fine Arts at Southern Cross University, in Lismore, NSW, Australia and sold her first paintings in the same year. Her paintings have been selling locally, nationally and internationally ever since. Lina Eve’s “Bad Girl” series,[1] music, and videos have enhanced her activism in adoption reform and along with her Holocaust series, “Reclaiming my Family History” have led to recognition in Australia, the United States and Europe. Since she ventured into the world of filmmaking, she won the Best Australian Music Video Award at the WOW Film Festival in Sydney 2009.[2] for "Bitter Winds".[3]

Solo exhibitions
  • “Bad Girl” & “People and Places” Roxy Gallery Kyogle Feb 2008
  • Mental Health Conference, Liverpool Sydney, 2002
  • “Tributes” Upstairs Gallery, Lismore. Jan 18- Feb 18, 1999
  • “Reclaiming my Family History” Roxy Gallery, Kyogle. Nov. 21, 1997.

Group exhibitions
  • “Bad Girl Series” Black Mountain Clubhouse, NC. USA 2005
  • “Neurotic Visionaries & Paranoid Jews” Makor, NYC, NY, USA April 2005
  • “SAGAS” (Secret Adoption Grief Art Show) New Jersey, USA 2000
  • “SAGAS” Washington, USA 2000
  • Bastard Nation Conference in Atlantic City USA. 1999
  • “The Holocaust through the Eyes of the Artist”
  • Wilshire Boulevard Temple, LA, USA, Sept. 1999
  • Mental Health Conference, Wacol, QLD, 2004
  • “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” Lismore Regional Gallery Feb, 2003
  • “The Poetics of Survival” with Bonney Bombach, Gold Coast Gallery, 1999
  • “Faces” Exhibition, Upstairs Gallery, Lismore.
  • Women Artist’s Diary Exhibition, Waywood Gallery, 1998
  • “Guava Jelly Show”, Coldstream Yamba. 1997
  • Portrait Exhibition, Coldstream Yamba.1997
  • “Cultural Alternatives” Roxy Gallery Kyogle 1997.
  • Women Artist’s Diary Exhibition, Brooklet House, 1997
  • “In Focus” Photographic Exhibition, Roxy Gallery Kyogle, Oct. 17, 1997.
  • Southern Cross University Graduation Show. 1996
  • Lismore Regional Gallery.1996
  • “The Painter’s Exhibition”, Chocolate Factory, Lismore.1996
  • Bare Bones Gallery, Group shows, Bangalow. 1996 & 1997
  • Epicenter, Byron Bay.1996
  • Stanthorpe Regional Gallery. 1996
  • Southern Cross University Museum, 1996
  • Trinity Arts Festival, Lismore.1996

Prizes
  • Winner Best Australian Music Video “Bitter Winds” WOW film festival Sydney 2009[2]
  • 1st prize photography Bentley Art Show. 1997.
  • First Prize, Ilford Photographic Competition for 3rd Year Tertiary Students, 1998
  • First Prize for Photography, Bentley Art Show. 1998.
  • First Prize, Ilford Photographic Competition for 2nd Year Tertiary Students, 1997
  • Third Prize, Ilford Photographic Competition for 3rd Yr Tertiary Students, 1996
  • WA. Finalist Mandorla Art Prize, New Norcia Gallery, 1996.

References
  1. Eve, Lina. "Bad Girl Series". YouTube.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. "WA Filmmakers Win at WOW Film Festival". wotnews.com.au. 10 July 2009. Archived from the original on 10 July 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  3. Eve, Lina. "Bitter Winds". YouTube.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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