Elizabeth Osborn

My work aims to be immersive, sensual and direct as I aim to provide insight into our destructive world. I have developed a raw and organic practice which revolves around our ecology and time. This acts as a kind of study into entropy through ambiguous installation and moving image works. I create ongoing destructing ecosystems, conducting investigation into materials such as clay and earth. I choose these materials because of their omniscience; held within them is a wealth of intelligence into our past time. A close analysis of materials has been vital in investigating materialism, natural mechanisms and the effects of a climate. Matter is on a constant journey of transformation and renewal. Through a cyclical process, I demonstrate an adaption of material entities, where balancing has been the critical factor in producing the desired equilibrium for the continuation of life. The key idea of cause and effect has been vital, thus symbolising a kind of vulnerability, unpredictability and fragility of our ecosystems. This concept is something I am keen to develop into exhibition and explore further beyond my time at Loughborough University.