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.
Exhibitions
Thresholds, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline, Sep - Nov 25
Group Exhibitions
They Call Me Witch, Crypt Gallery, London, Nov 25
Soho Open, GPS Gallery, London, Nov 25
Cass Art Prize, Copeland Gallery, London, Oct 25
Hops vs Art, Noble and Common, Worcester, Oct - Nov 25
Summer Exhibition, Gallery at Green and Stone, London, July -Aug 25
Jackson’s Art Prize, Bankside Gallery, London, June 25
Dodomu Gallery Emerging Artists 2025, Apr - May 25
Irving Open, Irving Gallery, Oxford, Mar - Apr 25
RBA Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, Feb - Mar 25
7th John Ruskin Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, Jan 25
Beep Painting Biennial 2024, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Nov 24 - Apr 25
Ukraine from Past to Future, Milton Keynes, Sep 24
A Modest Show, The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, Nov 23
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Nov 23
Plein Air A Site for Resistance and Remedial Action, The Art House, Worcester, Oct 23
Love Peace Ukraine, Central Milton Keynes Library, Sep 23
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Nov 22
WWAG Summer Exhibition, West Wycombe, Aug 22
Cookham Arts Club 80th Annual, Cookham, Aug 22
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Mar - Nov 22
Bath Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Bath, Oct 21
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells, Sep 21
New English Arts Club, Mall Galleries, London, June 21
Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, April 21
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, November 19
London Arts Board, London, June 16
Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, Feb 16
MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, July 15
Griffin Art Prize Tour, White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple, Jan 15
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, Dec 14
Griffin Art Prize, Griffin Gallery, London, Nov 14
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Nov 14
East Sussex Open, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, July 14
20 Painters, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, Feb 14
The Studio, APEC Studios, Hove, May 13
Imprint, APEC Studios, Hove, Oct 12
Last Chance Saloon, APEC Studios, Hove, May 12
Affordable Art Fair Graduate Showcase, London, Oct 11
Contemporary Eye, Sussex University, July 11
Awards & Collections
Winner; Homiens Prize, 2025
Shortlist; Jackson’s Art Prize, 2025
Shortlist; John Ruskin Prize, 2025
Shortlist; Beep Painting Prize, 2024
National Waterways Museum Collection, 2023
Landscape Award; Discerning Eye, 2022
Winner; Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year, 2022
Longlist; Jackson’s Painting Prize, 2022
Discerning Eye Collection, 2019
Shortlist; Griffin Art Prize, 2014
Midlands Regional Prize; Discerning Eye, 2014
Publication & Links
Of Land and Longing, Create! Magazine
Topiarius Magazine, European Boxwood & Topiary Society
Peripheries Journal No. 6, Harvard University Press
Interview: The Winner of Sky Art Landscape Artist of the Year Series 7
Curator’s Choice: Tabish Khan, Art Critic at Londonist
Review: 20 Painters at Phoenix Brighton
Degree Show Review: New Blood Art at the Brighton Degree Show
Residencies
Ayatana’s Biophilium; Mortem: For artists to study death, 2022
They Call Me Witch, The Crypt Gallery
Rethinking the figure of the “witch” not as a folkloric or mystical character but as a historically and politically charged identity, forged through accusation, societal scrutiny, and acts of self-definition
Soho Open, GPS Gallery
Soho Housing Association, in partnership with Parker Harris, has unveiled the list of artists who will be showing in the inaugural Soho Open – a new exhibition opportunity for artists, makers, designers, and creatives based in the UK.
Cass Art Prize, Copeland Gallery
The Cass Art Prize 2025, presented by The Cass Group, aims to champion contemporary art from across the UK & Ireland, with a £10,000 cash prize and a free stand at The Other Art Fair in spring 2026 awarded to the overall winner of the competition.
Tales from the Threshold
A two-part journey into ritual and remembrance. Tales from the Threshold (evening) blends painting and storytelling, followed by Conversations at the Threshold (morning), an open conversation where we reflect, share, and break the silence around death.
Hops vs. Art, Noble and Common
"Hops (Market) Vs. Art (Market )" is the inaugural exhibition at Noble and Common Gallery, which is now at home at The Hop Market in Worcester. The exhibition is a celebration of shared histories, market places and cultural exchange. With refreshments served courtesy of Company Drinks.
THRESHOLDS
In Thresholds, Enfield presents a new body of work exploring how absence is felt, remembered, and made visible.