Elizabeth Priestley

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Dark Light – Fierce Love New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW

2020 The Solitary and the Sublime

	Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, NSW

2019 Disappearance of Days Gallery 503, Sydney, NSW

2018 New Works Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, NSW

2018 Waterways and Wonderments

	Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW

2016 Petrichor Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, Bowral

2016 New Work Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW

2014 Burnished Light Civic Arts Centre, Gunnedah, NSW

2012 Latest Works Nexus Gallery, Bellingen, NSW

2012 On the Outer Tamworth Regional Gallery – Ray Walsh House, Tamworth, NSW

2009 Solo Studio Show Peel Street Studio, Tamworth, NSW

2007 Inland Washhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2018 Balmain Art Show Balmain

2016 Changing Face of the Peel Tamworth Regional Gallery

2016 A Regional Mix Janet Clayton, Paddington

2015 New Works by Marilynne Barnes & Liz Priestley

	Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, NSW

2015 Balmain Art Show Balmain

2014 End of Year Group Show Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW

2014 Balmain Art Show Balmain

2014 Frost Over Barraba Barraba, NSW, Invited Feature Artist

2014 New Works Nexus Gallery, Bellingen, NSW

2014 Wax Impressions Gallery 126, Armidale, NSW

2012 Crossing New England Armidale Art Gallery, Armidale, NSW

2009 Australian Heart Collective Bondi Pavilion, Bondi, Sydney

2007 Reflections Gallery 41, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW

2004 Australian Heart Collective Bondi Pavilion, Bondi, Sydney, NSW

Art Prizes

2019 Winner Barraba Art Show

2011 Finalist, Essential Energy Art Prize, Bathurst Regional Gallery

Public Collections

NSW Regional Healthcare Manilla Palliative Care Unit

Tamworth Regional Art Gallery Collection

Selected Bibliography

2020 Art Edit Magazine

2020 Highlife Magazine

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The earliest of our memories is what fascinates me. I am always striving towards pinpointing that connection between our first impressions of our environment, and its emotional corollary within our future lives. The work is a result of that endeavour. Landscapes articulating a personal reaction to the recollection of that fundamental impact. Expanding on this, I desire to explore further the connection of "bequeathed" memory. Asking the questions of past generations no longer here, whether we are the product of their emotional experience of landscape and environment. By producing encaustic works, which in themselves are products of layers over time, I aim to pose these same questions to the viewer. Landscape is our conduit for the spiritual, this has been illustrated across cultures and generations. By using encaustic, I am alternately building and layering, and reducing, carving and scraping out an image. There is a revelation in the work as it progresses, and in its final form. This process is a physical representation of searching those layers of memory. The resulting image is the vehicle in which the viewer will resonate with their own epiphany of those small personal, binding memories.