A series of interventions into objects.

Elizabeth Graham is an artist who selects objects specifically. This is not to say that they are the ’specific objects’ of Donald Judd’s late-modernist conception, but rather a careful selection of items and products that find their function and purpose outside of art. Once the choice has been made, an intervention into the object usually takes place. Such an intervention does not completely transform the object, but neither does it allow it to continue to be experienced as having a fixed identity. A swimming pool plugged with plywood, or a box filled with paint.

Works like this are simple without being empty, playful without being cheap, and internally coherent whilst still referring to a world outside of itself. Decisions about things such as form, colour or placement in art are not confined only to a kind of formalism but are in fact deeply ingrained into the way we navigate the world of objects around us. It is Art like Elizabeth Graham’s, which reminds us of this fact.

[Written by Peter Simpson.]

Elizabeth Graham

Tags: function, intervention, object