Name: Elizabeth Willow

Elizabeth Willow is a fine artist who specialises in sculpture, assemblage, installation, performance or a hybrid of various disciplines. Her inspiration evolves from her dreams, mythology and fairytale and the archetypes which inhabit them and which influence both individual and collective understanding, beliefs and desires.

Willow frequently makes use of found objects both natural and unnatural, pursuing a fascination with objects that have a story (whether known or imagined) with fragments, broken and discarded objects. Her work often involves an element of contradiction which is expressed in various ways, through the use of materials which have seemingly incongruent qualities such as strength and delicacy, through the creation of objects whose properties defy their function, or through the attempt to exploit or subvert the tension between such opposing aspects or forces as attraction and repulsion, secrecy and spectacle, freedom and constraint, the supposed imaginary and the purportedly real.