Elizabeth Croft

Give Us This Day Our Daily Cake, solo show at Bryne kunstforening, Bryne, Norway

Solo exhibition comprising drawings on to cake paper of industry workers, photographs of asphalt machines and an installation with sculpture in paper and a text piece. The exhibitions subject is work - the meaning of work, the contrast between work and leisure and how our definition of work has changed in the post-war period. See more on Bryne art union’s website here.

Three Windows Recovered, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger

The work is site-specific and the subject of the work is the space itself, which acts as both the source of inspiration for the work and the place of its presentation. Three windows have been covered to increase wall space in the gallery. These have been revealed through life-size paintings. The paintings depict the windows and the view that they would give of the street outside.

You Are Here, site-specific installation, Tou Scene

The whole space is made over to a pseudo camera obscura, created with inverted photographs of the view from the windows, mounted on the opposite wall. The windows are represented on the back wall at a scale of 1:2. The center point of the space is marked with a red spot on the floor and the words: "You are here". This refers to tourist maps and therefore to travel and foreignness. The statement is an affirmation of presence, as opposed to the state of absence or non-place described by Marc Augere, which many of us now experience daily, through vicarious traveling and living, via the internet. The third element of the installation is a scale model of the space at scale 1:20, in a filing cabinet draw. The model features photographs of the doors and windows in the space. In one of the windows, I am included in the photograph. My back is turned to the camera. I am looking out towards the fjord, mimicking the pose of Gerhard Richter's "Betty". More information here on Rogalands Avis.

Experiments With Light & Space, Stavanger kunsthall

The large photograph is a 1:1 scale copy of the wall opposite, printed onto wallpaper. The image is a double reflection: a reflection of the space and forms present and an inversion of the colours in the image. The image is presented as a negative, where each original colour is represented by its opposite.
The wall-drawing is a representation of its opposite wall in a scale 1:2. It has been created using carpenters chalk line, which when stretched between two nails is plucked to leave a chalk-line on the wall. This way of working restricts the production of the drawing to straight lines that can be plotted between two points.
The model of the space is made in a scale 1:20 and reflects the whole space upside down, as if a mirror rests facing upwards on the surface of the table.
With the all of these different reflections, the doors and windows act as keys. Doors and windows provide access to a space, they are the keys to the world outside, but I have used them as keys to reflect the space on itself.

Klipp og Lim (Cut & Paste) solo show at Galleri Sama, Brusand

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