The Wire – May 2022
Womens Work, Wigmore Hall
Jo Hutton
“The ensemble exit the stage to Alison Knowles’s Shuffle, concluding a powerful evening of profound reflection on women’s influence in the world.”
Review
Press
Evening Standard – 18 January 2022
Article, Press
Royal Academy Magazine – September 2021
Three artists on Dance
‘I approach dance with a musician’s sensibility,’ says vocalist, composer and movement artist Elaine Mitchener, whose work appears in ‘British Art Show 9’, a major group exhibition that takes the temperature of contemporary art every five years (touring nationally until 23 Dec 2022).
Interview, Press
The Guardian – 20 August 2021
‘Come on this journey with me’: Elaine Mitchener, Britain’s boldest vocalist
Jennifer Lucy Allan
“Classically trained with a three-octave range, the genre-exploding performer dissolves her voice into astonishing gasps and stutters to confront the horror of colonial history.”
Interview, Press
Art Review – 30 July 2021
British Art Show 9: ‘A Scene At Once Thriving and Struggling To Survive’
Tom Jeffreys
“My thoughts for Art Review on British Art Show 9 – currently at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester & Plymouth. Highlights: Kathrin Böhm, Elaine Mitchener, Abigail Reynolds & Hrair Sarkissian.”
Press, Review
The Gaudie – 11 July 2021
Gaudie Exclusive: BAS9 reviewed
Rory Buccheri
“Equally powerful and evocative is Elaine Mitchener‘s sound installation [NAMES II] (2019-2021), memorialising some of the 2,000 enslaved African people owned by an Aberdeenshire sugar planter in Jamaica.”
Press, Review
The Press and Journal – 9 July 2021
British Art Show offers an immersive voyage of discovery
Scott Begbie
“Elaine Mitchener’s poignant (NAMES II) is a roll-call of the 2,000 enslaved African people owned by an 18th century Jamaican sugar planter, whose family came from Aberdeenshire.”
Press, Review
The Wire – May 2021
Elaine Mitchener & Guests at Wigmore Hall
Andy Hamilton
“This is an imaginatively conceived recital.”
Press, Review
Evening Standard – 6 May 2021
The Wigmore Hall at 120: musicians from Sheku Kanneh-Mason to Dame Sarah Connolly on the London icon
Nancy Durrant
“From its banging acoustics to its welcoming audience – and one of the music world’s best-loved artistic directors, the venue’s charms have won the hearts of musicians”
Article, Press