Elizabeth Murton

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Indevelopment

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Spinbang

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2013 Prototype: Mobile Nature Unit

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Playing Frame

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Giant Weave

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Rules and Regs

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Giant Umbrella

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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

• Module (2010) and Spin Bang (2008) in 'Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple' 22nd April - 27th April 2010
  

  Private View 22nd April 6-9pm
  

  For more info on group website click here
  Nolia's Gallery, 60 Great Suffolk Street, SE1, London
  

• Can (2010), featuring in At Play 16th April - 20th June 2010
  Private View 16th April 6.30-9pm
  

  For the South Hill Park website click here
  
  South Hill Park, Berkshire, England

  In Can, lines of cans act as threads, together creating a wall of fabric that hangs off a circular architectural structure. The installation is a sensory environment that appeals to sound and touch and is created by an everyday object in multiple. Exploring materials in different contexts, in her work Cans, the artist seeks to focus on different relationships between construction, material and the body to build, occupy and contain.

  Exhibition at Blue Dog Gallery Brighton coming soon.

Previous Exhibitions

• Fraction, Cor Blimey Arts 4 to 6th December 2009
  Private View 4th December 6-9pm
  

  Cor Blimey Arts website click here
  
  Faircharm Trading Estate, Creekside, Deptford, London

• Module, Origin, Somerset House 6 to 18th October 2009
  

  For info about Origin please click here
  London
  

  New Newspaper Sculpture- Description Below
  

  The link between basketry structures and architecture is the manipulation of materials but on different scales; from clothing, to basketry, to buildings. Materials come together: lines criss-crossing, meeting, drawn into, underneath, and through; hence the sense of movement within the structure of the piece.

  Taking weaving- under over under over; the sculpture gradually shifts, descending into the space. It is not a traditional vessel: exploring the pattern and repetition in basketry construction; producing an abstract sculpture. Newspaper is in abundance in the urban environment; especially with the free papers all over London. Originally basketry developed from using locally available materials.

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• Alchemy @ Deptford X 25th to 4th October2009
  And Open Studios @ Deptford X 25th to 27th September2009
  

  Cor Blimey Arts
  

  Faircharm Trading Estate, Creekside, Deptford, London

  Private View 25th September 6-9pm
  

  Deptford X is an arts festival in South East London which showcases established and up and coming artists.

  In addition to the open studios, Cor Blimey has a conventional gallery space exhibition featuring 'The Alchemical Banquet', a wedding feast for the eyes. This will be a collaborative work exploring the relationship between the art object, its creators and consumers through alchemical eyes. Artists are allocated place-setting for work which examines the theme of Alchemy.

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• Jaunt 18th to 30th September 2009
  

  Strange Cargo
  

  Folkestone, Kent

  Exhibition of Cor Blimey artists diverse practices by the sea side.

• Indevelopment at Rubbish Art 5th January to 28th Feburary 2009
  

  The Point, Doncaster, Yorkshire
  

  Rubbish Art
  

  Based on the theme of artwork made from found and recycled sources, it will be an exhibition that inspires people to reflect on their environment and encourages them to think differently about contemporary waste. In effect, high quality rubbish art!

  About the sculpture Indevelopment (2008)
  

  Individual sheets of used newspaper are taken one by one and rolled into tubes. The tubes are grouped into 4 then 9 rolls corresponding to the rows of the sculpture. The rolls are then stuck down to make the next layer of the sculptural grid. As it builds up, the surface begins to slope and the layers of the grid slowly shift off centre.

  This work was originally inspired by basketry, a craft which traditionally utilises available materials, and John Cage's Fontana Mix. The latter provides separate transparencies of lines, dots and a grid. Creating a set of rules to make music, by overlaying lines and dots to create a set of values. The rules are followed not knowing the outcome, but it is already controlled by the system of making. As the sculpture travels upwards, the grid begins to spin out of control- becoming more chaotic, as if developing into a different form.

• Effuse 12th June to 24th July 2008
  

  The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles
  Tel: (0)20 7717 2210 Email: connitex@gold.ac.uk

  Exhibition 13 June to 24 July 2008
  Next Late night opening 10th July 5 till 8pm; opening before MA show at Goldsmiths for Complementary Wine 5 till 6

  Effuse: 1. To pour out 2. To radiate; diffuse. v.intr. 1. To spread or flow out 2. To ooze forth; exude.

  Effuse is a showcase of five Goldsmiths textile graduates Lizzie Cannon, Natalie Maclennan, Claudia Moseley, Elizabeth Murton and Poppy Pitt. As the exhibition title suggests, this group show explores the way in which a similar starting point, location and medium can unravel into a myriad of paths and approaches. As we are invited to consider an expanded notion of the textile, that which is not so much governed by a set of rules or boundaries, but rather a method to produce, a process to learn, a thread that evolves.

Exhibitions Pre 2008

• 2013 Prototype: Mobile Nature Unit 21st & 22nd September 2007
  Abandoned car transformed into picture postcard garden. One of many cars being transforming by artists in celebration of Islington Car Free Day. Read a review of last years event Banner Street, EC1 London
  
• Playing Frame and Photos of Giant Weave 21st May till 8th July 2007
  Southhill Park, Ringmead, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 7PA (a beautiful Masion House, that is now an arts centre)
• Giant Weave as part of Big Day Out free music festival 7th July 2007
  Ringmead, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 7PA (a beautiful Masion House, that is now an arts centre)
• 'Work and Play' at Rules & Regs 11th - 12th May 2007
  Developed a new piece of 'Live Art' in response to three rules as part of a professional development residency.
  The Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7QR
• First of Four: Orbis Opifex 2nd March - 14th March 2007
  Orbis Opifex is an collaborative installation by four Goldsmiths Graduates. Exhibited at BASH exhibition 'Life Cycles'. Crypt, St. Pancras Church, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BA
• First of Four: Orbis Opifex 23rd Jan- 4th Feb 2007
  Orbis Opifex is an collaborative installation by four Goldsmiths Graduates. It explores a kind of alchemy, in which the cogs of the mind and the machine tick and ... It's effect is certainly a strange machine.
  The Vaults in the Foundary, 86 Great Eastern Street, London (Please see flyer below)
• Night 7th Oct 2006
  Video shown at night of Orchestral-folk music The Wupadupa String Thing, All Saints Parish Church, Kingston.
• Playing Frame 15th - 19th June 2006
  Free Range, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.
• Playing Frame 15th - 19th June 2006
  Goldsmiths College BA Degree Show, London.

Images © Elizabeth Murton 2010