Elizabeth Topham

Home: West Vancouver, British Columbia
Title: Self-portrait @ age 47
Media: Oil on canvas / huile sur toile
Dimensions: 61 x 91 cm
Website: www.elizabethtopham.com

I was interested in exploring the notion of the painted self-portrait and its intriguing relationship of painter as subject, as well as my awareness within this construct. What am I actually ‘seeing’ or percieving as self? What choices am I making in the construction of the painting ie. composition, context, mood? In this self-portrait, I chose to crop the composition onto a larger canvas to eliminate context but not the awareness of it and attempt to focus on self, as a state of mind.

2013 Honourable Mention

EDUCATION:
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver
1991 Visual Arts Diploma, Emily Carr College of Art + Design, Vancouver
1990 Atlin Centre for the Arts, guest artists Al McWilliams + Irene F. Whittome

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Desire: The Magnificent Obsession, study # 31 2012, QE Theatre, Vancouver
2010 Desire: The Magnificent Obsession, (Juried) Ferry Building Gallery, W. Van

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013 Reflections, Buckland Southerst Gallery, West Vancouver
2013 Hungry Ghosts: Living in the Age of Consumerism, Ferry Building Gallery, W.V.
2012 100 Years \\ 100 Artists, Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver

AWARDS + SCHOLARSHIPS:
1990 Tuition Scholarship, Atlin Centre for the Arts, Atlin, BC
1989 Carter-Begg Scholarship, Emily Carr College of Art + Design, Vancouver
1984 HM, Challenge ’84 Berol Prismacolor Art Scholarship, Queen’s University