Hallo.
Thanks for stopping by.
It means a lot that you’re taking the time to be here.
I use this website as my way of organizing and sorting, of trying to making sense of the projects that have come to be in the previous years. I’m grateful for all the wonderful collaborations that have come out of finding the courage to make this work visible to others. I’m equally grateful for all the silent hours I’ve been able to carve out and have been allowed to sit and create and muse over life in all its nuances through my work, which is available to not nearly enough mothers; I know this to be a privilege, amongst many others I know to have been blessed with – a responsibility I don’t lightly.
I hope you can find some things here that speak to you, the way their themes and visuals spoke to me when they came about in the first place.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions, custom requests, or interests in collaborating.
peace, Liz
artist statement
Liz grew up on the Austrian/Czech border and currently lives on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, Vancouver, Canada. She holds a BA in Graphic and Media Design from New Design University in St.Pölten, Austria.
Liz’s work ranges from abstract drawing practices and writing, to experiments in performance and installation art. Often the projects are led by a particular interest in a material, but generally her practice is based on letting the work choose the medium best suited for the desired expression.
After creating silently for herself for years, she only recently began to share her work publicly: Invited to participate in a group show in Vienna in 2021, she presented selected works of the bodymaps series and gone gone gone here; Vancouver’s Beaumont Studio’s hosted Liz’ first solo show in January this year titled Sensations of Stillness.
The central focus of her current practice lies on the body and its subtle and nuanced ways of communicating. We tend to only become aware of its rhythms and going-ons in states of imbalance. The bodymaps and Tracing Sensations series create a visual language used to explore the quiet sensations that lie in between, the constant tingling and murmuring that make up our physical selves.
Preferred materials for these explorations tend to be of natural matter as well: wood, paper, fabric, the body, or found and repurposed objects.
Other works include: Concrete Nature, a photo series exploring the relationship between natural and the woman-made objects; Between, a short film (shown at EECC 2019 Moving Art), looking at relationships in form of simple graphic shapes and movement; Soma – Bodymaps in Labyrinth, a 2020 group performance and video piece, taking the idea of mapping somatic sensations off the paper and letting participants be eachother’s canvases while capturing their sensations in paint strokes on another’s bodies; book design and contribution of 2 poems in Quarandreams, a collaboration of over 2 dozen writers creating ekphrastic poetry based on the photography and curation of Maggie Macpherson; and more.
Liz thrives in silence and intimate collaborations, and finds most of her inspiration in working with and learning from her three year old daughter.