Dan Eleni Carey is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher whose practice sits at the intersection of ecology, disability and participatory arts.

Working across immersive outdoor experiences, performance, curation, poetry and qualitative research, she develops collaborative projects that use creative practice as a method of inquiry, connection and social change.

Her most significant work to date is Beneath the Surface (2023), a floating, site-responsive performance and installation by canoe in Kangaroo Valley. She received a Festivals Australia Grant to co-produce the work with Julie Henninger, co-writing, co-directing and performing in the piece.

Other recent collaborations include Health Matters! Art Competition and Exhibition (2025/2026), MAGNIFY! An Immersive Insect World (2024), Weaving Wild Wonder (2021), Wild Ground: Bushfire Recovery Storytelling Project (2020). and Nature of Motherhood: A sit spot writing (2018).

Alongside her artistic practice, Dan is the founder of Wild Ground Creative Adventures, where she has spent more than a decade designing nature immersion programs and creative experiences for children, families and educators. She is also a researcher with the Centre for Disability Studies, contributing to qualitative arts-based disability research and inclusive co-design.

In 2025, she was awarded the Regenesis Poetry Prize for her poem Slowing Down: A Field Guide to Somatic Signal Exchange, published in the 2025 Regenesis Anthology.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Music, a Master of Teaching, and is currently completing a Master of Autism and Neurodiversity Studies.