Jury

Elizabeth Delfs, Visual Artist

Artist Statement Excerpt

“I am an interdisciplinary artist and my practice sits between garment and the built environment and my work explores the rendering of space through objects that vacillate between habitations and figurative sculpture articulated by the reciprocal transference of qualities from the body (organic) and the built environment (inorganic). It questions notions of gender, beauty and the relationship between dress and building, two aspects of design which find their point of origin with the body. Applied to the body, the objects envelope and distort the silhouette, and installed create an unfamiliar sensuality by erupting from surfaces recalling corporeal and architectonic topography.” 
 

Based in West Australia visual artist Elizabeth Delfs graduated from Curtin University of Technology in 2006 with a BA in Fashion and Textile Design, and has since been exhibiting her interdisciplinary practice in Australia and internationally. Delfs’s work first gained recognition in 2005 when she was selected as one of eight Australian artists to exhibit in Talente, an exhibition in Munich showcasing the best of emerging practices in art, craft and design. Her practice was profiled on ABC’s Sunday Arts program in 2007 following the success of her first solo show The Space Between in Melbourne as a part of the Cultural Program for the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Delfs has contributed to several significant group shows, interdisciplinary collaborative projects and completed several residencies. In 2009 Delfs works on a public art project and private commissions. Delfs’s practice has also been profiled in several significant art and design magazines locally and internationally. 

Delfs has given numerous artist talks at galleries and design studios, lecturing at within universities, and in 2009 completed two internships with visual artists in New York. Delfs currently lives and works in Perth and runs a gallery in Perth city.