Elisabeth Bodey

About

“This world is a mountain in which your works are echoed back to you” - Jalaluddin Rumi.

I am interested in ideas and sensations of place and paint, of being in the arid zone of the Australian Central Desert region. My paintings are conversations about space, time, memory and cultural connection, about being in a broad field of experience, in place and in paint.

Significantly this topographic engagement has lead me on a slow but sure journey towards abstraction as experience of place. The works of 2011 represent an important stage. Abstraction has become an echo of Place in Paint, a transformative shift in thinking.

Biography

Elisabeth Bodey is a visual artist living in Melbourne. She is currently undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy at the Australian National University in the College of Arts and Social Sciences/Painting Workshop. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and Master of Fine Art from RMIT.

Since 1988 she has had numerous solo shows, participated in many group shows and has been awarded local and overseas residencies such as at Bundanon (2004, 2007), the VACB Verdacchio studio (1994), the Oncology Dep’t at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital (1993), Gertrude Street Studio’s (1988-90). In 2007 she was awarded the Corangamarrah Art Prize.

Her work is held in The National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University, Artbank, Bundanon Trust, Colac Area Health Collection and in private collections. Her most recent show was at Aranda Contemporary, Melbourne, November 2011.

Contact

Please direct all enquiries to elisabeth@elisabethbodey.com.au. High resolution images of the works presented below are available upon request.

2011