LIZ ELTON
  • Projects
    • Yield
    • Vegetable Dye & Food Colouring works
    • Polaroids
    • Florence Trust
    • One Hundred Harvests (John Moores 2018)
    • Zero Gravity at mc3 Projects
    • PIYPaintLounge at Sluice
    • Small Isles
    • In Process
  • Installation images
  • Prints
  • About
    • News, Links, Bibliography
    • CV
    • Contact

Polaroids taken inside my large paintings for 'One of One' at 163 Gallery

For enquiries about polaroids please contact Julie at 163 Gallery

Julie leant me a beautiful vintage Land Camera for One of One.  I think it’s from the 1950s. It has no flash, but is sleekly designed and folds to fit in a pocket.  Originally I made work while in the Orkneys and Hebrides, thinking of time passing and how land use shifts; Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar, the abandoned harbour near Ròineabhal, a mountain that was to be quarried for aggregate.  Subsequently I made a new series, thinking about a moment of creation, a flicker of light.  I got inside one of my largest paintings and moved the camera around so that it couldn’t quite focus and I didn’t know exactly what the result would be.  I wanted to think about both the photographic and painting processes, and the agricultural references in my work, so named the series ‘Photosynthesis’.  I think these Polaroid images will lead to new large works.   

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Projects
    • Yield
    • Vegetable Dye & Food Colouring works
    • Polaroids
    • Florence Trust
    • One Hundred Harvests (John Moores 2018)
    • Zero Gravity at mc3 Projects
    • PIYPaintLounge at Sluice
    • Small Isles
    • In Process
  • Installation images
  • Prints
  • About
    • News, Links, Bibliography
    • CV
    • Contact