Breath, (Double Ended Balloon)
2021
Rock and hand-blown glass
35 x 35 cm
This piece was inspired by a video work by artist Yva Jung called One Room Blow, 2014. This piece includes the artist, and her mother sharing the same breath in a double ended balloon. I was struck by the space their shared breath created in the balloon, and wanted to look at glass blowing as a materialisation of capturing that breath. Whilst simultaneously being interested in generational familial structures, I was drawn to the intimacy of the piece. I look at breath as a significant connecter with one human and another through birth and nature, finding moments like exhaling and inhaling as poetic gestures. This piece explores themes of softness, materiality, nature and femininity.
Elizabeth’s practice has been influenced by growing up in a semi-rural North London area, landscape and nature has always been an important component to her practice and the materials used. Elizabeth uses a wide range of found utilitarian materials which is influenced by her part-time work at Waitrose, she then explores these motifs through sculpture, installation and performance. Her most recent works are looking at the effects of the lockdown, specifically the domestic space being in a constant state of flux between “art” and living and how these two worlds have now become one.
2021
Rock and hand-blown glass
35 x 35 cm
This piece was inspired by a video work by artist Yva Jung called One Room Blow, 2014. This piece includes the artist, and her mother sharing the same breath in a double ended balloon. I was struck by the space their shared breath created in the balloon, and wanted to look at glass blowing as a materialisation of capturing that breath. Whilst simultaneously being interested in generational familial structures, I was drawn to the intimacy of the piece. I look at breath as a significant connecter with one human and another through birth and nature, finding moments like exhaling and inhaling as poetic gestures. This piece explores themes of softness, materiality, nature and femininity.
Elizabeth’s practice has been influenced by growing up in a semi-rural North London area, landscape and nature has always been an important component to her practice and the materials used. Elizabeth uses a wide range of found utilitarian materials which is influenced by her part-time work at Waitrose, she then explores these motifs through sculpture, installation and performance. Her most recent works are looking at the effects of the lockdown, specifically the domestic space being in a constant state of flux between “art” and living and how these two worlds have now become one.
2021
Rock and hand-blown glass
35 x 35 cm
This piece was inspired by a video work by artist Yva Jung called One Room Blow, 2014. This piece includes the artist, and her mother sharing the same breath in a double ended balloon. I was struck by the space their shared breath created in the balloon, and wanted to look at glass blowing as a materialisation of capturing that breath. Whilst simultaneously being interested in generational familial structures, I was drawn to the intimacy of the piece. I look at breath as a significant connecter with one human and another through birth and nature, finding moments like exhaling and inhaling as poetic gestures. This piece explores themes of softness, materiality, nature and femininity.
Elizabeth’s practice has been influenced by growing up in a semi-rural North London area, landscape and nature has always been an important component to her practice and the materials used. Elizabeth uses a wide range of found utilitarian materials which is influenced by her part-time work at Waitrose, she then explores these motifs through sculpture, installation and performance. Her most recent works are looking at the effects of the lockdown, specifically the domestic space being in a constant state of flux between “art” and living and how these two worlds have now become one.