Last Light

Elizabeth is an Australian emerging artist. Her debut solo show was at Michael Reid Southern Highlands (2022), and since then she has exhibited several times with the Michael Reid group, including a further solo show with Michael Reid Southern Highlands (2023), and in the Summer Salon (2022, 2023). In 2024, Elizabeth was one of six artists to present a body of work for the  Michael Reid and Country Style Magazine annual exhibition. She has been a finalist and highly commended in the Glover Prize (2018), a prestigious Australian landscape art prize. She has also been a finalist in the Royal Queensland Art Society Young Artist Awards (2018), Kangaroo Valley Art Prize (2020). In 2022, she was part of a group exhibition of works selected by Amber Creswell Bell as part of the National Emerging Artist Prize.

Elizabeth’s practice predominately focuses on exploring landscapes and expressions of the bush through abstraction. She is particularly interested in investigating emotional responses to place in her work. She lives on a bush property in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, and her work often references the stories and histories of her immediate environment, the country of the Ngambri/Ngunnawal people, as well as the regions she’s spent time in such as the Central desert and southwest Tasmania. A process-driven painter, Elizabeth develops her work through drawing, experimentation and layering of oil paint until a finished painting reveals itself. 

The works in ‘Last Light’ were formed following constant observations of the spectacle of a winter setting sun as it briefly coats the landscape with golden light, before a quick descent into a cool twilight.