Elizabeth Gertsakis

Elizabeth Gertsakis (born 1954) is an Australian visual artist and photographer known for her use of archival photographic images in installations that highlight cultural perspective.

Gertsakis was born in 1954 in Florina, Greece from a Greek and Slavic family background.

[2] She studied art, critical theory and English literature, graduating from the University of Melbourne and Monash University and started her work as a visual artist in 1986.

She was senior curator of the Australia Post National Philatelic Art and Design Collection from 1995 – 2010.

[3] Her doctoral research at the University of Melbourne focuses on the uses of photography in the Southern Balkans & Northern Greece.