Evening Standard – 18 January 2022
Article, Press
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
TDE Promotions – 15 April 2021
Two Live Streams from Wigmore Hall: Trish Clowes and Elaine Mitchener
Tony Dudley-Evans
“This was an outstanding start to the Associate Artists programme with Trish and Elaine, and encouraging evidence of an openness on the part of the Wigmore Hall, and also of the broader issue of the genre fluidity of so much contemporary music.”
Press, Review