Liz Lake

Herb Planting

2011-08-04T06:26:00.001-07:00

The Benham Galley Exhibition+Work in Progress

2011-08-04T04:33:00.000-07:00

The exhibition from my month long artist-residency at Cuckoo Farm Studios. During the month I used plants and recycled materials from the farm to experiment with paper-making+printmaking. This work came together to form an installation, with a central floor+wall piece. In the last week of the residency I held workshops in what I had been exploring, in exchange for herbs. These were then planted as a herb garden outside the gallery.

The Herb Swap Printshop

2011-07-27T12:15:00.000-07:00

Two days of workshops in exchange for herb plants

Exhibition at The Benham Gallery

2011-07-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

Paper Making

2011-07-08T14:06:00.000-07:00

Cuckoo Farm Studios--<>--Workshop Info

2011-07-03T16:17:00.000-07:00

The Herb Swap Printshop.

Two days of free workshops in exchange for herb plants. Various times are available throughout the day, from 9am-9pm. Please email lizlake1@gmail.com or phone 07852575134 to book a place and a time. Workshops will take place at Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios.

Wednesday 27th July----- Papermaking

Thursday 28th July-------- Printmaking

The focus of the workshops will be on plants, exploring how they can inform both the making process and the context of the work. We will be using simple techniques, combined with cheap, found and recycled materials.

Cuckoo Farm Studios- Artist Residency

2011-06-27T03:35:00.000-07:00

Just started a month long art residency at Cuckoo Farm Studios in Colchester.

Permaculture Course+Sketchbook

2011-06-26T11:55:00.000-07:00

Some photos + pages from my sketchbook- from a permaculture course that I have been on this month in Norfolkshire, held by a Mr Richard Perkins .

Bristol Artists Book Event

2011-04-14T07:34:00.000-07:00

BABE event at the Arnolfini in Bristol.

'Threads' artist book

2011-04-14T03:30:00.000-07:00

A 4 colour screenprinted accordion book that accompanied the New Galley 'take over' exhibition.

The New Gallery London 'Take Over' Exhibition

2011-04-11T13:40:00.000-07:00

Photos from the gallery before it was transformed into a theater space for an evening of performance. The exhibition was the culmination of our 'take over' of the gallery, in collaboration with Megan Saunders and Clare Mason.

Three Threads- The New Gallery

2011-03-26T04:38:00.000-07:00

Working towards an exhibition at The New Gallery from the 4th-10th April. More info found here

Liminal Space lino workshop

2011-03-22T10:38:00.000-07:00

Photos from a lino-cutting workshop I held at the wonderful world of Liminal Space.

Liminal Space is a temporary haven of making, animating and celebrating the hand-crafted object, in a disused dry cleaning shop in Chalk Farm, North London. From 14th March to 8th April 2011 the shop, established by Puppetry students at the Central School of Speech and Drama, will be running craft workshops ranging from shadow puppetry to kite-making, as well as drop-in sessions and live performance events.

Can Serrat Exhibition

2011-03-13T14:02:00.001-07:00

Work in progress

2011-02-10T13:46:00.001-08:00

New blog for work in progress from Can Serrat- found here.

Can Serrat International Arts Centre in El Bruc, Spain

2011-01-31T09:37:00.000-08:00

I've just arrived at Can Serrat, Spain for a month long residency. I will be experimenting with lino&wood-cuts, drawing and collage....

Screenprinted cards

2011-01-16T13:54:00.000-08:00

New Collage Screenprint

2011-01-16T09:21:00.000-08:00

10 colour screen-print collage. Edition of 30. Printed at North Star.

Work in progress

2010-12-25T02:57:00.000-08:00

Work in progress for a new print series.........

New Cactus Screenprint

2010-12-06T03:23:00.000-08:00

9 colour screenprint. Edition of 35. 'I waited for you in the land where they grew'. Printed at North Star.

Screenprinted Cards&Envelopes&Drawings

2010-11-26T09:44:00.000-08:00

Letterpress+Screenprint

2010-11-17T16:10:00.000-08:00

6 colour screenprint. Printed at North Star.

Print Packs

2010-11-04T06:27:00.000-07:00

Please email if you would like a print-pack. £££$$££10 is their price-tag.

White Night video collaboration

2010-11-04T06:23:00.000-07:00

A short video made in collaboration with Omar Robert Hamilton , which was projected as part of the shadow installation I made for White Night.

White Night

2010-10-31T13:21:00.002-07:00

Final Bhasvic workshop

2010-10-31T13:21:00.001-07:00

Photos from the last of 3 workshops with Bhasvic students. They made two different collaborative screen-prints and an individual hand-bound book each.

White Night- work in progress

2010-10-28T16:43:00.001-07:00

Getting ready for White Night, where I will be showing a shadow installation.

Plant Swap Print Shop at compARTment

2010-10-26T13:13:00.000-07:00

I held two weeks of free printmaking workshops in exchange for plants- in collaboration with compARTment called The Plant Swap Print Shop, at the Open Market in Brighton. The workshops combined mono-drawing mono-printing and screenprinting.

Bhasvic workshops at compARTment

2010-10-13T16:09:00.000-07:00

The 1st session of three workshops with Bhasvic college art students in the Open Market. I held the workshops in collaboration with Amy Cox and Jessie Martelhof, and they were a combination of drawing, mind-mapping and printing.

2010-10-12T15:43:00.000-07:00

Work in progress

2010-10-06T15:34:00.000-07:00

A large paper-cut in progress for White Night......

2010-09-28T07:21:00.000-07:00

White Night 2010- Screenprinted Poster

2010-09-27T15:40:00.000-07:00

Screenprinted Composting Poster

2010-09-26T14:20:00.000-07:00

2010-09-18T04:22:00.000-07:00

2010-09-10T14:43:00.000-07:00

Patterned Drawings

2010-08-31T13:46:00.000-07:00

Lewes Artwave Festival

2010-08-26T06:19:00.000-07:00

I've put up lots of old prints for the Artwave festival in Café Des Artistes, 10 Phoenix Place, Lewes.

Cow House Studios, Ireland

2010-08-11T15:29:00.001-07:00

Preparing a shadow puppet show to take to Cow House Studios in Enniscorthy, Ireland next week.

2010-08-10T14:04:00.000-07:00

'How to be Free' Manifesto

2010-08-02T11:49:00.000-07:00

2010-08-02T11:48:00.000-07:00

mARTadero Residency, Cochabamba, Bolivia

2010-06-17T10:52:00.000-07:00

Zac Singer and I have moved into mARTadero for their artist-residency program, where we are making more puppets and helping out with the children's program.

Ten Year Anniversary of the Water Wars in Cochabamba

2010-06-17T10:17:00.000-07:00

We have been helping construct giant puppets, costumes, signs, banners etc. that will be part of the march here in Cochabamba, Bolivia that commemorates the 10th anniversary of ¨La Guerra Del Agua¨. Ten years ago Cochabamba was engaged in a political war and the people took to the streets to protest the privatizing of their water as part of a World Bank Structural Adjustment Policy.

2010-06-17T10:00:00.001-07:00

Talleres de Arte

2010-05-17T08:18:00.000-07:00

Un Vagon Hermoso

2009-11-25T09:25:00.000-08:00

Un Vagon Hermoso.
New home! Steff Mcguinness and myself will be living and teaching workshops here until Feburary 2010. Vagon Hermoso is a project to restore two abandoned train cars in the rural town of Mayor Buratovich into a community work space. Its located at the north tip of Patagonia, Argentina.

Exhibition and Performance at Residencia Corazon, La Plata, Argentina

2009-11-24T07:21:00.000-08:00

I Ihave spent two months living at Residencia Corazon in La Plata, Argentina, working towards my exhibition here. The exhibition was a night of shadow puppets, music and food, with the gallery space being brightened by printed flags, drawings and a wall painting. Before working on the show, I constructed a cardboard wall with the screen in the middle, so that the one exhibition space was turned into two rooms. The shadow puppets were created from cut paper and improvised movement. It was performed to music and extracts of text we had recorded before, with live music played over the top of this. The audience were also given home made instruments and instructions about when to play them. The show ended with the three puppeteers breaking through the cardboard wall playing music and handing out empanadas and gingerbread men....

2009-11-20T03:08:00.001-08:00

Shrine of Drawings

2009-11-20T02:33:00.002-08:00

Resisencia Corazon, work in progress

2009-11-20T02:32:00.000-08:00

Beast or Burden

2009-11-19T19:01:00.000-08:00

A short 3 minute shadow puppet performance I did at Cafe de Cheap Artists, Bread and Puppet- performned with live music and sounds of animales dancing in the jungle.

Bread and Puppet & The Cheap Art Store

2009-11-19T18:12:00.000-08:00

I spent the summer up in Vermont with Bread and Puppet Theatre Company . Some photos of cheap art I made for inside the bus.

Screenprint and one page book collaboration

2009-11-19T08:00:00.000-08:00

I spent 5 weeks in Providence, Rhode Island, helping out at AS220 Community Printshop, where I collaborated with Jay Zehngebot on "To Listen With Our Feet, To Hear our Hands", a 14 colour screenprint that folds down into a one page book. We printed an edition of 35

It was also included in the exhibition, "Collective Access" at 5 Traverse Gallery in Providence in July 2009, an article about the show can be read through this link: http://gregcookland.com/journal/2009/07/collective-access-at-5-traverse.html

Screen Printed print packs

2009-06-25T19:52:00.000-07:00

Havana Art Biennial

2009-06-25T19:51:00.000-07:00

Collaboration with Arielle Narva and Zac Singer for "The Casera Era" Project (Caseraera.blogspot.com).We created an 80-page handbound book full of pockets, prints, and text centered around the theme of "home". See our statement from the project below.

Lets Exchange
Home is the space we make our own, where we create something familiar and comforting. It is a concept characterized by fluidity, open and different throughout the world, yet something every human identifies with in some way. Georges Perec said, "To live is to pass from one space to another." This notion of passing through space, of cultivating home through our stories, through the lives we weave with our loved ones and our shared environments, is ultimately what we cherish most, but can also be most fragile. First there was Faye, then Ike and Gustav, and finally Paloma: the hurricane season of 2008 devastated Cuba and its surrounding areas, destroying homes and crumbling the structures, both literal and figurative, that they were built upon. We choose to share, to discuss, to exchange our stories in recognition and support of the necessity to rebuild old spaces, to recreate new homes. Where economic exchange is prohibited, we want to create dialogue, an exchange of informal and personal stories as a more authentic way of communicating. This book is an opportunity to do just this, to use art as a means of communication, of exchange. This book is an open window, an open door into our homes, into the material of our daily lives, into our families, ourselves and our surroundings. There is just one copy, only one of each story, as a way to emphasize the fleeting nature of home, specifically with these hurricanes in mind. Please take. Please share with us. Leave your own notes, stories, drawing, photos. Or just look. We welcome you.

The last 4 photos are some of the pages that got drawn and written on by people at the Biennial.