Lina Eve


Lina Eve, an Australian artist, adoption activist, singer/songwriter, photographer and film maker, has been exhibiting and selling her work locally, nationally and internationally since 1994.

Life and work

Lina Eve was born in Germany to Polish parents in 1946. Her father was a Holocaust survivor, and, to escape war torn Europe, the family immigrated to Australia in 1951. At 17 years old, pregnant and unmarried, she lost her first child to Forced Adoption In Australia in 1964.
Leaving Australia to get over the trauma of losing her baby, Lina travelled back to Europe where she led a colourful and diverse life as a kibbutz worker in Israel, a folk-singer in London, a model in Greece and Paris, and a silversmith travelling overland between Europe and the East. She’s worked as a vegetarian cook in an Italian restaurant in India, a civil marriage celebrant and counsellor in Australia, a singer/songwriter, photographer, visual artist, and, most recently, as a film maker.
Returning to Australia after seven years in Europe and the East, Lina was involved in a car accident which killed two close friends and left her with multiple fractures and head injuries. After a long recovery period she moved to the Australian countryside, eventually having two more children, and building a house in a forest of Northern New South Wales Rainbow Region.
Lina Eve started painting in 1994 studying Fine Arts at Southern Cross University, in Lismore, NSW, Australia and sold her first paintings in the same year. Her paintings have been selling locally, nationally and internationally ever since. Lina Eve’s “Bad Girl” series, music, and videos have enhanced her activism in adoption reform and along with her Holocaust series, “Reclaiming my Family History” have led to recognition in Australia, the United States and Europe. Since she ventured into the world of filmmaking, she won the Best Australian Music Video Award at the WOW Film Festival in Sydney 2009. for "Bitter Winds".

Solo exhibitions