Eileen Cunningham is a West Australian emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Boorloo, Perth, Western Australia.
Using acrylic paint and mixed media she creates gestural and intuitive abstract works which engage the viewer by evoking feelings and memories. She embraces the ambiguity of abstraction for its capacity to allow interpretation and generate meaning, and for the creative freedom, possibilities and opportunities that can arise.
Cunningham’s career experience as a psychologist inspires her focus on themes of hope, connection and humanity which she expresses in her arts practice.
She is currently completing an Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts at North Metropolitan TAFE, Perth.
Established in 2021, the National Emerging Art Prize was created to provide an annual, highly visible national platform to identify, promote and support the most promising emerging visual and ceramic artists in Australia.