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 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 and the Libris Award for Artist Books.
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)
Solo exhibition of new artist books to be held at Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, October 2018
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 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 and the Libris Award for Artist Books.
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)
Solo exhibition of new artist books to be held at Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, October 2018
Print Award Winner - 2018 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
12 May to 8 July 2018
Image: from Loftia Park, 2017, linocut artist book, kozo tissue (Tengucho), 38cm x 58cm, edition of 5
Main Photograph by Matthew Stanton
12 May to 8 July 2018
Image: from Loftia Park, 2017, linocut artist book, kozo tissue (Tengucho), 38cm x 58cm, edition of 5
Main Photograph by Matthew Stanton
Finalist - 2018 Libris Awards - Australian Artist Book Prize
Artspace Mackay
26 May to 19 August 2018
image: epistolary, 2017, linocut artist book, kozo tissue (Tengucho), 38cm x 58cm
Photograph by Matthew Stanton
26 May to 19 August 2018
image: epistolary, 2017, linocut artist book, kozo tissue (Tengucho), 38cm x 58cm
Photograph by Matthew Stanton
Firestation Print Studio at Fondazione Il Bisonte, Firenze, Italia
Firestation Print Studio Gallery and
Fondazione Il Bisonte
23 May to 16 June
image: (work in progress) written at the shore 2, 2018, linocut, kozo tissue, thread, 70cm x 50cm
Fondazione Il Bisonte
23 May to 16 June
image: (work in progress) written at the shore 2, 2018, linocut, kozo tissue, thread, 70cm x 50cm
prints and artist books available through:
PG Printmaker Gallery
227 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
image: the pale light assemblage, 2015, linocut, kozo tissue, thread, 40cm x 38cm
Currently exhibited at the New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW - Eventide - until 29 April 2018
Currently exhibited at the New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW - Eventide - until 29 April 2018
Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop
|
Douglas Stewart Fine Books
|
image: exposure, 2016, linocut, kozo tissue (crumpled), thread, 26cm x 21cm |
image: Charcoal, volumes 1 and 2, 2013, linocut artist book, double concertina, with phase box enclosure, 15cm x 10cm (page size) Photograph by Jeremy Dillon |