Elaine Mitchener

Elaine Samantha Mitchener is a British-Caribbean experimental vocalist, composer, and movement artist. A member of the avant-garde group Apartment House and the electroacoustic act Rolling Calf. She attended the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and was later mentored by opera singer Jacqueline Straubinger-Bremar. In 2021, she performed NAMES II—a "roll-call of the 2,000 enslaved African people owned by an 18th century Jamaican sugar planter"—at the British Art Show.

In 2026, Mitchener collaborated with London-based composer, artist and DJ Ain Bailey for Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner. The 6:30-minute audio work, commissioned by Art on the Underground, can be heard at Waterloo tube station along the moving walkway connecting the Northern and Jubilee lines.

Mitchener is an associate artist at Wigmore Hall until 2026.