Neither Installation

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.