b. 1989, Milton Keynes, UK

Elisha Enfield is an award-winning UK-based artist. Her work delves into the layered histories of human rituals, examining the shifting boundaries between absence and presence.

Drawing from stories of fire and funerary rites, her paintings explore the macabre beauty of shared practices that traverse joy, reverence, and loss. These moments, tethered to history, resonate with contemporary questions about how we remember, mourn, and celebrate.

Throughout her work, Enfield explores how collective rituals and spectral narratives help us navigate a world without the ones we love, inviting the viewer to linger in those liminal spaces where memory and myth entwine.

Enfield studied painting at the University of Brighton, graduating in 2011. Recent achievements include selection for the BEEP Painting Biennial, Jackson’s and Cass Art Prizes, and ING Discerning Eye, where she has received both the Landscape and Midlands Prizes. Winner of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2022, her work is held in public and private collections worldwide.