Collection: Elizabeth Brown

@elizabeth_rose_sculptor

www.elizabethrosesculpture.com

Elizabeth Rose’s practice examines the relationship between secret shame and shared human experience. Deeply personal in nature, her work explores the transference of energy between the hand of the artist and the resistance of raw materials. Laborious and intimate, Rose’s reductive processes become a catalyst for personal growth and change.

Each hole, smoothed surface, tool mark, or gestural expression is a surrogate for trauma, forms made human in their plea for compassion. With each sculptural contusion, the evidence of the trauma that is kept in her body is made permanent in an ownership achieved by catharsis.

Working between monumental sandstone blocks and domestically scaled timber abstractions, Rose’s sculpture encourages a bodily encounter, consequently allowing the viewer to reflect on the intimate and inward.