Exchanges

EVERGREEN CULTURAL CENTRE, Coquitlam, BC Canada 2012

‘Exchanges’ featured an installation of Elizabeth’s art as well as the stories and art works of over 80 workshop participants inspired by memories of place.


Migration/Immigrant Stories

RICHMOND ART GALLERY, BC Canada 2009

As research for this exhibition, Elizabeth worked from a collection of personal and oral stories from settled and new Vancouver and Richmond immigrants.

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‘Migration’, Drift 2008

ILLUMINATE PRODUCTIONS, London, UK

A site-specific work inspired by the colours and marks of the painters Turner and Whistler relating to the migration of objects and art.

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What Use Art History?

BC TOURING EXHIBITION, Canada 2008-09

Paintings and photographic slides reuse the compositional devices employed by painter EJ Hughes while portraying the recent urban development of the Comox Valley. Curated by Ann Rosenberg.

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Cover Art by Silke Thoss

Art and Ideas

COMOX VALLEY ART GALLERY, BC Canada 2006

‘Art and Ideas, Eighteen Artists from Home and Abroad’ curated by Elizabeth Russell.

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‘Pitched’

UK and Canada 1999-2000

A series of photographs and tape drawings address issues of homelessness while questioning the boundaries of public space.

‘Surveillance’

Cop Shop, POLICE STATION, London, UK 2000

A projection on an existing mirrored wall in the public waiting room that projects the image into the main offices of a police station.


‘Inside Out’

ADHOCRACY, GALERIE HEROLD, Bremen, Germany 1998

The site-specific projection of a dwelling on found German wardrobes seen from multiple perspectives invite and negate the illusion of home.


‘The Jawbreaker Series’

UK and Canada 1997-2009

Pseudo scientific curiosity leads to abstract art works that display the erosion and the transformation of jawbreakers.