Elizabeth Faul, Cockatoo and roads wreath, 2022. Gouache on board, 30.5 x 22.8 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Elizabeth Faul has been a lettering artist for 35 years and a visual artist for 22 years. She trained formally as a professional calligrapher in the UK, and completed a Bachelor of Graphic Design at the University of Canberra. She has had several solo exhibitions, most recently at Kinkora Gallery Queanbeyan in 2022, and at Helen Stephens Gallery Collector in 2020, Belconnen Arts Centre in 2017, and M16 Artspace in 2016, 2015 and 2013. She won the CCAS Members’ Exhibition in 2016, the NOW Shoalhaven Contemporary Prize in 2013 and the Weereewa Festival prize in 2010. Faul exhibits frequently in curated group shows, both in Canberra and interstate, including at red gallery in Melbourne in 2022, 2018 and 2017.
Faul’s recent artworks explore wildlife, especially Australian fauna, insects and birds. Using gouache and graphite, usually in combination, she makes representational images of native birds, macropods and insects. Her concern for the natural environment and an enduring interest in its non-human inhabitants inform her work, particularly in relation to destruction of habitat, species extermination and climate emergency.
Website: elizabethfaul.com.au
Follow the artist: @elizabeth.faul
Liz Faul, Very Busy and Important, 2020. Gouache and graphite, 35.7 x 28 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Liz Faul, Phasmid, 2019. Gouache and graphite. 35.7 x 28 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Liz Faul, Indian Ringnecks, 2020. Gouache and graphite 40 x 50 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
