Elizabeth Manson
Front Gallery, 1st–19th July 2009
Elizabeth Manson describes the title of her exhibition, The Cutting, as a neighbourhood term for a chasm close to her home where the hill has been excavated to allow the road to pass through. However, she also notes that it refers to her working processes in making art, ‘cutting paper stencils from books and other found material and also cutting back into the painting with a brush.’ Underlying her work is an interest in more serious questions about self, persona and perceptions of ‘other.’ The artist makes specific reference to Rosalind Krauss who ‘suggests an alternative to the picture we have of ourselves, but one that is formed by looking outward to the responses of others as they look back to us.’