Liz Peniazeva

Through an exclusively analog collage process, Liz deconstructs and reconstructs printed ephemera, creating paper montages that subvert innate experiences and perceptions of the still image. Utilising collage as a device to re-imagine pictorial conventions, Liz probes the boundaries of picture making and the material possibilities of paper to invite a re-analysis of the conceptual and material possibilities of collage as a fine art medium. Describing her process as ‘painting with paper’ Liz reinstates collage as a powerful visual communication tool and an artistic entity separate to the realms of craft and design. While Liz’s collage process is guided by pictorial intuition, as informed by the aesthetic conventions of contemporary culture, she is restricted by singular images that are fixed in scale. The art making process is thus one of intense mental calculation and strategy. Drawn to representations of the female experience in print media, Liz re-configures such portrayals into playful scenes that fuse the natural and artificial worlds. While developing her practice out of her home studio in inner city Sydney, Liz also practices as a visual arts educator.

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