neither silent nor absent
Exploring stories through art and making
Welcome
a journey as an artist that began unexpectedly after spending years raising a family and working hard until a visit to a Museum of Glass ignited a passion for making.
Inspired by the alchemy and serendipity of materials and images, striving to embrace the freedom of creativity, breaking rules and pushing boundaries to tell stories and confront truths.
Liz
Telling stories -
The stories are there, sometimes we don't know how to find them; to gather the courage to say the words out loud; to believe that anyone is interested. I began by telling stories through the medium of glass and now through text and paint and marker and collage - in fact with any medium that brings the stories into the light.
Creative Collaborations
No artist is an island, no work the product of just one imagination and creativity. Collaborations are fun and challenging, give insight and motivation - other eyes seeing my work, other ears hearing the stories.
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I am part of the Red Art Project working with two other talented artists and we work along side a talented curator as threads _weaving stories ...
Inspired by the showing of the Red Dress in Abergavenny and the Community Shawl produced in response, our first exhibition at the Abergavenny Arts Festival in June 2024 red flags: red lines set out three approaches.
REDdress (the Other Red Dress) is an aesthetic response to femicide, a black ribbon bearing the name of each of the 100 women killed by men in 2023. The other elements were
framed artworks of collages made entirely from red single-use plastic collected in just one morning stroll and the storyline behind a specially-choreographed, joyful performance piece for older dancers, celebrating the empowerment that should be every woman’s birthright.
The next phase for the Red Art Project and threads_weaving stories has involved craft workshops, talks and new installations for international women’s day 2025, story-sharing inspired by further exhibitions of the Other Red Dress and Community Shawl - and a series of choreography workshops creating a group dance version of the ‘red thread’ solo and contemporary art work reflecting on violence against women and girls and the ways they are silenced.
Current projects
Collaborating with other women to create an installation in response to 'The Red Shoes'. Starting with fairy tales and ending where-ever the story takes us using salvaged materials, inherited cottons, buttons and more.
The work will be exhibited alongside Kirstie Macleod's Red Dress - Resilience.
