About
Elizabeth Hammond is a freelance Artist and Educator with a passion for drawing and sharing this with others. She completed her MA in Visual Art at Curtin University in Western Australia at the end of 2008 and now lives and works in Hampshire, England. Elizabeth is a Chapel Arts Studios Associate Artist and a Director of Artful Collective CIC. Recent commissions involving social engagement, participation, drawing and writing include Big Open Book with Hampshire Libraries and Art Club for Ukrainian Refugees with Chapel Arts Studios. She worked for several years at Fremantle Arts Centre, Curtin University and for Open Universities Australia. Elizabeth is an instinctive educator who enjoys facilitating creative experiences, teaching all ages and is passionate about providing creative opportunities for all. She teaches all ages and has led professional development sessions as well as school classes alongside undergraduate tutorials in Drawing and Visual Culture. She is currently lecturing at University of Southampton in the Medical Humanities, teaching medical students how to draw. Elizabeth has exhibited internationally, including ‘Constellations: A Large Number of Small Drawings’ at the RMIT Gallery and with the SGFA at the Mall Galleries. Her first solo exhibition ‘Curiosity of Incongruity’ was held in Perth, WA. Much of her work is in private collections and she enjoys working to commission.
statement
A line, in all its many manifestations, is always drawn. Between A and B it can be plotted, it can be walked, a figurative boundary, an identified edge, a stitch, a decision and an expression. Drawing can be the process of making, creating or identifying a line. When we draw we make a mark, this can be a permanent reminder of our presence on a surface, or an ephemeral understanding that can exist for the briefest of moments behind our eyelids. But a drawing always proffers the unexpected.
Elizabeth’s interdisciplinary practice is primarily about drawing in the expanded field today. Exploring drawing as a noun and as a verb her work seeks to engender the same joy she experiences when making it, for the viewer and participants alike.
