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)
Extinct - Artistic Impressions of our Lost Wildlife
A new book by Benjamin Gray
A new book, published by CSIRO Publishing, featuring artworks from Sue Anderson, Brook Garru Andrew, Andrew Baines, Elizabeth Banfield, Sally Bourke, Jacob Boylan, Nadine Christensen, Simon Collins, Lottie Consalvo, Henry Curchod, Sarah Faulkner, Dianne Fogwell, David Frazer, Martin George, Bruce Goold, Eliza Gosse, Simone Griffin, Johanna Hildebrandt, Miles Howard-Wilks, Nick Howson, Brendan Huntley, Ben Jones, Alex Latham, Rosemary Lee, Amanda Marburg, Chris Mason, Terry Matassoni, Rick Matear, Eden Menta, Reg Mombassa, Tom O'Hern, Bernard Ollis, Emma Phillips, Nick Pont, Geoffrey Ricardo, Sally Robinson, Anthony Romagnano, Gwen Scott, Marina Strocchi, Jenny Watson and Allie Webb.
CSIRO Blog post
Benjamin Gray interview with ABC News
Image: Spiral Down (Lord Howe Flax Snail), 2019, linocut, 37cm x 24cm
Finalist - WAMA Art Prize - Works on Paper Exhibition
An online exhibition of works on paper that have been inspired by nature - available until January 2022.
People's Choice Award voting open until 22 October 2021.
image: leaf portrait 1, 2020, linocut, kozo tissue, thread, 56cm x 38cm, edition of 5, photograph by Matthew Stanton
Bookish - an exhibition of artist books by
members of the Print Council of Australia Inc.
images: forgetting, 2021, linocut artist book (printed relief and intaglio), kozo and gampi tissue, thread, solander box enclosure, 13cm x 17cm (book closed), 15cm x 19cm x 3cm (box). Solander Box by Elizabeth Banfield. Photographs by Matthew Stanton
Timelines - Work from the Collection - Gippsland Art Gallery
image: A Different Path, 2015, Elizabeth Banfield and Bronwyn Rees, bound concertina artist book, etching, collage, hand-burnished linocut, thread, page size 23cm x 23cm. Bookbinding by Elizabeth Banfield. Photograph by Matthew Stanton
Video - herewith (worry boxes) at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Watch the little video made by Melbourne art historian and video editor Mary McGillavray, part of a series about works in the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery collection.
image: herewith (worry boxes), 2018, linocut, phase box enclosures (5cm x 5cm x 5cm), kozo tissue inserts (43cm x 65cm). Photograph by Matthew Stanton. In the collection of the Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
Featured in Imprint Magazine, the journal of the Print Council of Australia
Between the leaves by Viva Hall
(Winter 2021 Volume 56 No.02)
image: amendment, 2020, double concertina artist book, linocut, colour pencil, kozo tissue, thread, phase box enclosure, 16.5cm x 8.5cm x 3.3cm (box), photograph by Matthew Stanton. The work is now in the Cynthia Sears Artist Book Collection, USA
Featuring works by Elizabeth Banfield
The Printmaking Ideas Book
by Frances Stanfield and Lucy McGeown
Octopus UK 2019
