Elizabeth-Anne Curistan

Elizabeth-Anne Curistan is the recipient of the ‘Catalyst Arts Emerging Artist Award’, the ‘Flax Art Studios Graduate Award’ and has been included in the ‘AxisWeb MAstars of 2014’ and shortlisted for 'Saatchi Art New Sensations 2014'.

Her work takes on a multi-disciplined approach from sculpture and installation to video and photography. Currently, through the construction of large room installations, her work is documenting the intermediate stage during rites of passage where the subject simultaneously contains elements of both its previous and subsequent forms but is identified as neither. She further explores this notion by using materials that are found, bought or second hand and then deconstructs them from their previous form to reconstruct them into something new. By burning only the underside of the materials she is able to further signify the opposing relationship between the interior and exterior self during rites of passage, as this action is symbolic of change, cleansing and rebirth into something new.

University of Ulster, Belfast
MFA Fine Art
2012-2014, (Distinction) ||

BA (Hons), University of Ulster, Belfast
Fine Art
2009-2012

2015 Solo Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2014 Flax 25, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2014 Belfast Open Studios, Flax Art Studios Belfast
2014 Saatchi Art New Sensations, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London
2014 MFA Degree Show, University of Ulster, Belfast
2014 Momentum, Catalyst Art Gallery, Belfast
2013 '81E01', Platform Arts, Belfast
2012 'space : image : object', University of Ulster, Belfast
2012 Degree Show, University of Ulster, Belfast
2011 'Haphazard', Catalyst Art Gallery, Belfast
2011 'Artist's Books', University of Ulster, Belfast
2010 ‘Elevenforten’, University of Ulster, Belfast
2009 - 2010 ‘Get Involved’, Black Box, Belfast