Elizabeth is a Barrow born, Morecambe based artist and designer, working with a wide range of materials.
Through a particular interest in the handmade she explores relationships between nature, technology, science and myth, She is interested in what happens at the intersections of life where ideas unrelated meet. In seeking out these places in her work Elizabeth finds ways to look harder, perceive with wonder, and be less certain of what we know.
She is interested in what process led, material based practice can teach us about ourselves and the world we live in. For Elizabeth, materials possess intelligence and agency. From an almost animist relationship to the more-than-human world, her processes emerge from what is learned and shared from the materials, their memories and dreams.
Elizabeth has an established collaborative and socially engaged practice and has worked with diverse communities across London and in the north of England. She is experienced in co-creation and believes it is equally important that artistic concept and high quality of output is matched with the opportunity for active engagement. within her projects she aims to nurture a supportive environment where individuals, families or community groups can share ideas and participate in hands on, intuitive making. This grassroots engagement provides an essential basis for her fabrication of imaginative responses.
Since relocating to Morecambe in 2021 she has taken significant time out from both design and socially engaged projects, in order to develop her studio practice, spending time researching and making personal work she has produced a body of works on paper, a series of small sculptural works, and has been awarded several solo commissions for permanent public artworks.