ELISABETH BOND

Statement

Over the last couple of years my work has been informed by an awareness of how 
human behaviour follows a pattern very similar to that of nature, ie a structure is 
established, thrives and then starts to break down, either from within or because 
of outside forces. There follows a period of chaos until a new structure is established.
I see this in personal relationships, within states and across continents.

My work is currently 2D and within that I move between linocuts, woodcuts, etching 
drawing and recently collograph. I particularly enjoy the simple technology involved in 
relief printing, even potato cuts and I find the activity involved in cutting, slicing, chopping 
etc., links me in a physical sense to what it is that I am depicting. 

For the last year I have been collecting pieces of discarded wood found around London 
and have been producing a series of woodcut prints on paper and cloth that I am calling
‘Cutting London’. This has gone on to open up other avenues in my work - writing songs 
that link with images of crows and foxes, photography etc.

With a month coming up working on woodcut prints and possibly wood-carvings in Yunnan
Province, China, it feels like an exciting, if slightly scary, time for me.


Biography
For 12 years I worked as a freelance playwright for theatre, TV, Radio. I also 
wrote an original feature film THE ASSAM GARDEN  re-shown at the BFI 
in 2010 as part of a Deborah Kerr retrospective. In 2006 I joined Euroart 
Studios Tottenham, London.
 	 	 	 	 	   
Education  MA Fine Art (merit) University of East London, 2009

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Window Gallery, Canary Wharf 
2005  ‘Lives of the Market’ Salon des Arts, London

Selected Exhibitions
2011 London Art Fair - The Fine Art Partnership
2010 'Collecting Original Prints' Menier Gallery London - The Fine Art Partnership 
2010 'Pushing Print' exhibition, Margate
2010 ' A4 Printmakers' Cornwall
2009 Peerless Gallery, Peoria, USA
2009 One Canada Square, Canary Wharf
2008 UEL scholarship to Beijing for exhibition Moon River Arts Centre
2008 ‘The Great Purpose’  Arts Pavilion, Mile End
2008 'Open Studios' Euroart Studios, Tottenham
2008 'Work on paper - MA show' R.K.Burt gallery
2007 'Featured artist' Skylark2
2005 'Open Exhibition NEAC' Mall Galleries
2004 ‘Challenge the Nail’ Salons des Arts, London

Collections
I have work in collections in America, Italy and in London, including 3 large 
woodcuts recently bought by the Canary Wharf Group for permanent display 
in the lobby, One Canada Square.

Artist in Residence
Lijiang Studio, Yunnan, China 2011 
Orslev Kloster, Denmark 2010
Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, Illinois, USA 2009