Elizabeth Gower
Gower's interest is in the human desire to create order from the chaotic. She creates collages and wall hangings, largely abstract compositions from domestic materials such as newspaper and tissue paper, as well as on transparent surfaces of fish, crabs and other crustaceans, fruit and vegetables, grasses, beetles, butterflies, flowers, insects, snakes, frogs, animals and shoes.
ELIZABETH GOWER | COLLAGE
Elizabeth Gower is an Australian abstract artist known for paper and mixed-media monochrome and coloured collages.
Her work developed as a young artist during the 1970s feminist movement.
In 2005 Kate Just outlined substantial changes in Gower's practice in a review in Eyeline journal: "In recent years, however, Gower’s collecting has eschewed the material world in favour of more evocative things: meaningful events, conversations and places that have marked the world at large.
After September 11, Gower compiled lists of significant attacks, invasions, battles, or conflicts which took place in the modern world between September 11, 1901 and September 11, 2001 and presented them on long sheets of drafting film."
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In 2005 Kate Just outlined substantial changes in Gower's practice in a review in Eyeline journal: "In recent years, however, Gower’s collecting has eschewed the material world in favour of more evocative things: meaningful events, conversations and places that have marked the world at large.
After September 11, Gower compiled lists of significant attacks, invasions, battles, or conflicts which took place in the modern world between September 11, 1901 and September 11, 2001 and presented them on long sheets of drafting film."
