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)
Elizabeth Banfield and Kati Thamo
Queenscliff Gallery
28 January to 15 February 2021
Link to the virtual tour
image: leaf portrait 1, 2020, linocut, kozo tissue, thread, 56cm x 38cm, photograph by Matthew Stanton
image: leaf portrait 1, 2020, linocut, kozo tissue, thread, 56cm x 38cm, photograph by Matthew Stanton
Finalist - 2020 National Works on Paper Award
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery - until 21 February 2021
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Video - the judges walk through the exhibition
19 February 2021 - artist talks and workshops
2020 National Works on Paper catalogue
image: herewith (worry boxes), 2018, linocut, phase box enclosures, crumpled kozo tissue inserts, 5cm x 5cm x 5cm (each box, closed), inserts 63cm x 45cm (open), photograph by Matthew Stanton
Other exhibitions coming up in 2021
Northern Beaches Library Artist Book Award
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
19 February to 28 March 2021
lacuna
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
17 March to 3 April 2021
Burnie Print Prize
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
26 March to 1 May 2021
Featuring works by Elizabeth Banfield
The Printmaking Ideas Book
by Frances Stanfield and Lucy McGeown
Octopus UK 2019
