Elizabeth Price
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Elizabeth Price is a British ceramic sculptor.
Though trained as an art teacher, Elizabeth’s path into the creative industry wasn’t smooth. She spent the early years of her life running her own restaurant in Manchester, and it wasn’t until she reached her forties that she finally took formal artistic training further and attended art school and eventually set up a studio at home.
Early in her career, she took part in a nationally touring show of humorous ceramics selected by comedian, Johnny Vegas. She exhibited solo and in group shows, undertaking installations and many individual commissions. Highlights for her have been the installations where she has created little figures that explore and experience real environments.
Elizabeth’s sculptures are hollow, built using thin slabs of an off-white, slightly gritty clay that she cuts out and pieces together - a little like dressmaking. The surfaces are decorated with layers of oxides, stains and glazes fired to 1090°C. Elizabeth’s approach to the creative process is a steady one. Her sculptures are beautifully emotive and carefully considered, characterised figures. She works slowly to detail each piece and is not prolific in her production.
Elizabeth uses the visual language of gesture and stance – for example, the tilt of a neck or the set of the shoulders – to express state of mind, or capture the moment in a narrative. The results can be serious, light-hearted, ambiguous, or enigmatic.
Ideas either come in a flash or develop over time; prompted by personal experience, people-watching, conversations, or triggered by a mere passing commentary. Contemporary dance is an influence, as are media images and of course visual art. Sometimes a title is the starting-point for a piece, in other cases the original idea cannot be expressed in words and so the title comes later.
Elizabeth Price’s work is sold exclusively through Kellie Miller Arts.
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