Elizabeth Wojciak
Artist’s Statement
Elizabeth Wojciak – Artist Statement
My practice is informed by ideas of abstraction and figuration, it is an exploration of physicality of paint and the act of ‘doing’. The process is the one that embraces accident and ambiguity. I want my paintings to describe a feeling, evoke a response or excite the viewer’s imagination.
My paintings reflect my ongoing interest in abstract and its formal properties such as colour, texture, shape, and contrast…TheBiography
Biography - Elizabeth Wojciak
Elizabeth Wojciak is an Adelaide based artist who works in the media of painting and drawing. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Applied Design from the Adelaide College of the Arts. Since her studies, she has received several awards including the MinterEllison Lawyers Rising Star Award, Academic Achievement Award and the Art Stretchers Award for Highest Achievement in Painting. Elizabeth also has been selected to exhAwards
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2018 The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award Finalist, Adelaide
2009 Second Place in The Skull Show Paradigm Living Prize, Gallery 139, Adelaide
2007 Best Abstract painting - Common Ground Project, Adelaide
2005 Outstanding Academic Achievement Bachelor of Visual Arts
& Applied Design, Adelaide South Institute Council Award
2005 Highest Achievement in Painting, Art Stretchers Award
2004 Rising Star Award, Minter Ellison Lawyers.
2021 Contemporary Art Prize, Gallery M, AdelaideExhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 We See with Memory, Praxis Gallery Adelaide
2010 Entwined, Harrison Gallery, Sydney
2009 Affinities, Gallery 139, Adelaide.
2008 Elizabeth Wojciak-Recent Works, Gallery 139, Adelaide
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Sala Exhibition Inside Outside, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2021 Synchronicity, Main Gallery, Adelaide
2021 Untitled. 2021, Traffic jam Gallery, Sydney
2021 Contemporary Art Prize, Gallery M
2020 Evocative Objects, Newmarch Gallery Adelaide
2019 Embodiment, BMG Art, Adelaide
2019 In the Flesh, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
2019 Small Spaces/Big Ideas, Praxis Art Space, Adelaide
2018 Through the Door, Yellow Door Studio Pop Up, Adelaide
2018 Mad for More, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
2018 SALA in NPSP Exhibition, Adelaide
2018 Still Amazing, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2017 Altered Personas, Upstairs Gallery, Adelaide
2017 Essence of Being, Firgun and Fire
2009 Territory, CCAE Gallery, Darwin
2009 Skull Show, Gallery 139, Adelaide,
2008 Gallery 139, Adelaide, Objectives Impending, Artistic Licence Gallery, Adelaide,
2007 Artistic License Gallery, Adelaide, Out from the Crowd,
Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, Gesture, Scotch College, Adelaide, Fine Art Exhibition
Waverley Homestead Willunga, Adelaide, Recent Works on Paper
2006 Artistic License Gallery, Adelaide, Abstraction-Creation
Arterial Gallery, Adelaide,’ Group Exhibition’. ‘Spring ART’, WATERHOUSE Natural History ART PRIZE 2005’. Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, ‘Hatched: Heathway National Graduate Show
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Elizabeth Wojciak
Reflection, 2022
122 x 122 x 4 cm acrylic and oil pastels on canvas Sold