Elizabeth Lada Gray - painter

Elizabeth Lada Gray is a storyteller who combines historical perspective and private insights toconnect you with her life and other peoples’ lives and experiences. She works with wood, recycled paper, gesso, gouache, ink, gold leaf and found images to create multi-layered art works often supported by scripted narration.

The artworks on wood illustrate Elizabeth’s personal observations living in Hungary 1970 and later in a small isolated hilltop village in Italy 2002-2005.


Altered landscape: Canoe dreaming - SOLD

Altered Landscape: Grummett Island quarter acre rock Penitentiary


Altered landscape: no sanctuary for the dispossessed - SOLD

Altered landscape: sing the song that brings back the moon bird


Altered landscape: Terre de Diemen et nouvelle - Hollande


An Aboriginal Survivor of Wybalena and Oyster Cove Stations - Fanny Cochrane Smith 1834-1904


An Aboriginal Survivor of Wybalena and Oyster Cove Stations - Fanny Cochrane Smith 1834-1904


Blending in Apparel, Van Diemen's Land - SOLD

Blending in Apparel, Van Diemen's Land - SOLD

Cross Stitch Mourning - SOLD

Cross Stitching for Van Dieman's Land Babies - SOLD

Cross Stitching Memories - SOLD

Mind Map Oyster Cove 1859 - SOLD

Mind Map Oyster Cove 1859 - SOLD

Sisters: Djuke and Mathinna


Stitching Crosses for Van Diemans Land Babies - SOLD

Stradling Two Cultures, Fanny Cochrane Smith 1834-1904


Stradling Two Cultures, Fanny Cochrane Smith 1834-1904


The native, convict, mistress & orphan living under the Masters and Servants Act, Van Dieman's Land - SOLD

Van Diemans Land Class Structure According to Dress Side


Van Diemans Land Class Structure According to Dress Side

A few hops from suburbia: listen and watch for the spotted pardalote in the Knocklofty and Wellington Reserves

A few hops from suburbia... - SOLD

 A red exhibitionist: at 42˚ south, walk the Mt Wellington tracks in December and engage with a Tasmanian waratah

A red exhibitionist... - SOLD

 Above the dust storm, watching the wood: log trucks speed along highways with fresh kill destined to become waste

Above the dust storm, watching the wood... - SOLD
Altered patterns and colours: hypoxia pink is deadly.

Altered patterns and colours... - SOLD

 An Endangered Coronet: can picking a Tasmanian wildflower alter the balance of earth?

An Endangered Coronet...

An insecure extinction: secure; vulnerable; endangered; critical; extinct in the wild; extinct; mythical; forgotten; remembered; recreated; improved; insecure; vulnerable; dangerous

An insecure extinction...

Beneath the earth’s skin lies history and nostalgia: resurrecting the past to ensure the present and future matters

Beneath the earth’s skin lies history and nostalgia... - SOLD

 Best to flee 1803: Bowen sails up the river, 1803, with 49 Europeans, followed by Collins who arrives with 303 convicts. 1804, soldiers panic at the sight of Aboriginals on a traditional food hunt and fire their weapons.

Best to Flee 1803...

Collecting and connecting: seeking answers in an earlier existence to ensure we take care of the now.

Collecting and connecting... - SOLD
Crossover coat for a Magyar: the refugee learnt the language of the environment before the local lingua.

Crossover coat for a Magyar...

Dancing orchid: the rare chilogiottis gunnii dances on the slopes of Mt Wellington – a free show.

Dancing orchid - SOLD

 Fated swim: the ornithorychus anatinus may become extinct through Mucormycosis. First-glimpse love of a platypus is not enough. What can I do?

Fated swim...

Fishing basket: there are plenty of fish in the sea if catching methods are fair and humans less wasteful

Fishing basket... - SOLD

 Fleeing the burn-off: natural or artificial, there are losses and new life after bush fires. A delicate balance in danger of toppling towards the artificial

Fleeing the burn-off... - SOLD

 Hypoxia pink: searching for a gap in the rich blooms of algae.

Hypoxia pink... - SOLD
Keep to designated paths: the rare, tiny Tasmanian Donkey Orchid is often overlooked or trampled upon. Tread with care

Keep to designated paths...

Knockers and doorknockers: the Tasmanian Wilderness Society 1976-2009. Keep supporting, contributing to and volunteering for the TWS

Knockers and doorknockers - SOLD

 Knocklofty Goddess: Friends of Knocklofty Bushcare Group who continually clear the way for us.

Knocklofty Goddess...

4)Kunanyi cape of good hope: walk the tracks of James Balf’s 1870 map of Mt Wellington once known as The Mewstone, Pooraneterré, Flat Mountain, Montagne du Plateau and Skiddaw.

Kunanyi cape of good hope...

Mathinna Falls: born into a Tasmanian Aboriginal family, Mathinna is adopted, discarded, orphaned and rejected. She drowns in a puddle, 1856. Visit Mathinna Falls and weep as many tears as can a waterfall

Mathinna Falls... - SOLD

 Migratory instincts: earth wanderers, the Welcome Swallow and I always return to Tasmania

Migratory instincts... - SOLD
Oyster Cove red: The W.L. Crowther Library photograph by Bishop Nixon, 1858, shows three Tasmanian Aboriginals at the Oyster Cove Station wearing head covering supplied by their incarcerators

Oyster Cove red... - SOLD

 Platypus 1800, 1802 and 2009: a glimpse of a platypus in the wild might lead to love absolute. The last surviving species of platypus-like ancestors from Gondwanaland is threatened with a Mucormycosis extinction

Platypus 1800, 1802 and 2009... - SOLD

 Red shoe shuffle: problems grow large and multiply in a state of uncertainty.

Red shoe shuffle... - SOLD
Save the seahorse jacket: hitching a ride, waiting for future generations to clean our seas

Save the seahorse jacket... - SOLD

 Searching for a splendent sea: waiting for sociological change above a plastic sea.

Searching for a splendent sea... - SOLD

 Suburban goddess: keeping little creatures safe as housing estates trespass on their territory

Suburban goddess... - SOLD
Swimming free in Lake Oberon: rescued from the drowned Lake Pedder, there are now a thousand or more Pedder Galaxias

Swimming free in Lake Oberon... - SOLD

 Tasmaniana jacket: ‘Australian? No, I’m a Tasmanian’ I explain, proud but fretful

Tasmaniana jacket... - SOLD

 Telopea truncata jacket: blend in, detect and observe a waratah, be a waratah.

Telopea truncata jacket... - SOLD
The Governor’s grand ball: a coronet of wild flowers and an extinct Tasmanian emu feather worn to the Governor’s ball, 1850

The Governor’s grand ball... - SOLD

 The history gleaners: digging, searching and keeping safe our links to the ordinary

The history gleaners... - SOLD

 The takeover: exchanging trinkets for land and water, roses for waratahs, musket balls for non compliance .

The takeover... - SOLD
The wisdom of sofa conservation: Bai de la Recherche. Keep it safe from human interference; celebrate its beauty from home

The wisdom of sofa conservation...

Thylacine warning: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) has reduced the devil population by 53% in 12 years.

Thylacine warning... - SOLD

 V.D.L., V.D.: a disease freely given and got by diemenlanders including Mathinna. She drowned in a puddle, 1856. Visit Mathinna Falls and mix your tears with hers as they endlessly fall

V.D.L., V.D... - SOLD
Waratah script: apply Roget’s adjectives for beauty to the Tasmanian Waratah, blooming every December on Mt Wellington.

Waratah script... - SOLD

 Wollemi dreaming: discovered growing in Australia 1994, approximately 40 trees of the rare Wollemia nobilis grew in the wild, now there are hundreds in gardens throughout Tasmania

Wollemi dreaming... - SOLD