Elizabeth Jardine
I make paintings, prints, artist books and videos. My work provides a meditative space where viewers can be drawn into their own journey.
I'm interested in the ways we connect to our environment; how we belong. I find it important to have a physical experience of place in an increasingly dislocated world, and undertake long walks and expeditions, immersing myself in a paradoxical activity of being there, while passing through. Often investigating places which previous generations of my family have been connected to, I look for echoes of the past that resonate with present concerns.
My work considers social, historical and geographical networks within the context of a particular place through a personal physical experience. Drawing out universal metaphors which resonate on a deeper level, I try to find an authentic, significant or enduring trace of a transient experience.
Education
2015 UAL: Wimbledon, MFA Fine Art (Merit)
2003 Falmouth College of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art (2:1)
2000 Brighton College of Technology, BTEC Art Foundation (Merit)
Awards
2016 Pre-selected, RWA Open
Shortlisted, National Open
Shortlisted, Bath Open Art Prize
2015 Shortlisted, Neo:artprize
Shortlisted, Creekside Open
2014 Pre-selected, Threadneedle Prize
Pre-selected, National Open
2013 Shortlisted, Wells Art Contemporary
2009 MADE Art Prize
Residencies
Metal: Liverpool, Time and Space
SAW, Yeovil Country Park, Water-Meadow-Wood
Recent Exhibitions
2017 Water-Meadow-Wood, Octagon, Yeovil
Christmas Exhibition, Exeter Cathedral
Granite Elements, Devon Guild/Yarner Wood/Princetown
Going Back, ROAD, Liverpool
Awesome Art Fair, Exeter
Waterline, EVA Studios, Exeter
Nature, House of Pottery, Japan
2016 NTWRK, The Exhibit, Balham
Bath Open Art Prize, Bath
Dark Art, Barnfield, Exeter
Imagined Worlds, Somerset Art Works (Touring)
2015 Neo: Art Prize, neo:gallery27, Bolton
Chalk, Towner, Eastbourne
Glastonbury: Land and Legend, V&A, Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Prague
Creekside Open (Richard Deacon), APT, London
From Cowboys to Astronauts, Calmare, Exeter
MAKE 2015, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey
Shift, Menier Gallery
Freehand, Devon Guild, Bovy Tracey
2014 The Interim, Crypt Gallery, London
Aes-the-sia, Pic n mix, Bristol
Fieldwork, Stour Valley Arts, Ashford
PARK14, Cannizaro Park, London
Circumscape, Norman Plastow Gallery, London
Encounters, Brent Artist Resource Gallery, London
Home, Phoenix Café Bar Gallery, Exeter
Red Show, Studio 1.1, London
2013 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Museum, Wells
Present Makers, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
Making Tracks, ONCA Gallery, Brighton
Visions, Romney Marsh Visitor Centre
Summer Shade, NNW Gallery, Chertsey