Elizabeth Banfield studied printmaking at the South Australian School of Art (Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art, 1984), and now lives and works in Melbourne.
Elizabeth has won the Print Award at the biennial Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards for her artist book 'from Loftia Park'. Her work is also held in many private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Library of Australia, State Libraries of Queensland, NSW and Victoria, as well as many Regional Galleries throughout Australia. She has been selected as a finalist in many prestigious juried exhibitions such as the National Works on Paper, the Geelong Acquisitive Print Award, the Rick Amor Print Prize, the Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, the Libris Award for Artist Books, and the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art.
Elizabeth's current practice continues to centre around the use of Japanese tissue papers. She is able to make use of their delicate structural qualities to facilitate layering, translucency, pattern and colour mixing. The seemingly ephemeral nature of the paper contributes to her on-going themes of the ever-changing landscape, and our ever-changing memories of it and its associations. (Link to CV)
Elizabeth has won the Print Award at the biennial Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards for her artist book 'from Loftia Park'. Her work is also held in many private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Library of Australia, State Libraries of Queensland, NSW and Victoria, as well as many Regional Galleries throughout Australia. She has been selected as a finalist in many prestigious juried exhibitions such as the National Works on Paper, the Geelong Acquisitive Print Award, the Rick Amor Print Prize, the Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, the Libris Award for Artist Books, and the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art.
Elizabeth's current practice continues to centre around the use of Japanese tissue papers. She is able to make use of their delicate structural qualities to facilitate layering, translucency, pattern and colour mixing. The seemingly ephemeral nature of the paper contributes to her on-going themes of the ever-changing landscape, and our ever-changing memories of it and its associations. (Link to CV)
Kyoto Hanga International Print Exhibition: Japan and Australia 2019
Caloundra Regional Gallery
Caloundra Regional Gallery
19 September to 10 November 2019
image: herewith (worry boxes), 2018, linocut, phase box enclosures, kozo tissue inserts (varied edition of 20, 1-10 shown), 5cm x 5cm x 5cm, 43cm x 65cm (tissue paper insert)
Photograph by Matthew Stanton
Impressions II - Works from the Whitehorse Collection, with a selection of new work
Works from the Whitehorse Collection, with new works by Elizabeth Banfield, Gwen Scott, Kate Hudson, Senye Shen and Wayne Viney.
Whitehorse Artspace
3 October to 9 November 2019
images, Collected Dead Letters Volume 3, 2018, linocut, thread, Japanese papers, purchased clamshell box, 30.5cm x 21.5cm (papers)
Photographs by Matthew Stanton
Out of Slumber - a group exhibition at Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop
Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop
81 Hesse Street
Queenscliff, Victoria 3225
4 July to 15 September 2019
letter 17 (heartfelt), 2017, linocut, Tengucho tissue, thread, 51cm x 111.5cm
81 Hesse Street
Queenscliff, Victoria 3225
4 July to 15 September 2019
letter 17 (heartfelt), 2017, linocut, Tengucho tissue, thread, 51cm x 111.5cm
An Exhibition Celebrating Ten years of Bittondi Printmakers
The Arts Centre
22 Gawler Street,
Port Noarlunga SA 5167
2 August to 2 September 2019
image: exposure, 2016, linocut, kozo tissue, thread, 26cm x 21cm (printed at Bittondi Printmakers Studio, Aberfoyle Park SA)
Featuring works by Elizabeth Banfield
The Printmaking Ideas Book, by Frances Stanfield and Lucy McGeown, Octopus UK 2019
prints and artist books available through:
PG Printmaker Gallery
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Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop
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Douglas Stewart Fine Books
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