Elizabeth Presa

Elizabeth Presa (born 1956) is an Australian visual artist and academic based in Melbourne.

Working with sculpture her work uses a range of materials and processes, including sericulture, apiculture and casting. Some of her installations use plaster as a forensic tool to examine traces of the psyche, biological life and the environment. She is an academic, an author and has also worked as a curator and gallery director.

From 1993 she taught in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, in 2003 she was appointed Head of the interdisciplinary Victorian College of the Arts Centre for Ideas, where she focussed on interdisciplinary curriculum and research design in the visual and performing arts. Of Martyrium and Reliquary, with Mireille Eid, Articulate Project Space, Gallery, Sydney (2017) Views for the Future Vol. 16 (bricolage), curator and master printer M. Matsumara, October, (2016) Gallery TEN, Tokyo-Yanaka Lorne Sculpture Biennale, curated by Julie Collins, Lorne, Victoria, (2014) Gallery TEN, Tokyo-Yanaka; 2017 Art Space Mooni, Morioka, Japan, (2012) Dear Jean Jacques, Cite International des Arts, Paris (2007) Art+Australia, Review: Animal/Human/Artist –Art inspired animals''', by Lynn Mowson, (2017) Human/Animals/Artist: Janine Burke’s Exhibition Explores the Lines Between', Gabriella Coslovich, the Sydney Morning Herald, Nov.18, (2016) Lisa Harms, Duetto review, Art Link Vol 30, No3 (2010)

Selected works The Heart of the Matter (2018) Nothing (2018) Translation as a material practice (2017) Martyrium and Reliquary (2017) Birth to sartorial presence (2017) Garden of small nuptials (2017) human/animal/artist (2016) Bricolage (2016) Playland (2016) Nativity (2015) Life must first imitate matter (2015) Ways of Being: transitional objects and the work of art (2015) Small Utopias: architecture for bees – (beehive village) (2014) An Other Economy (2014) Apian Utopias: Small Architecture for Bees (Part 1: Tokyo Beehives) (2013) Echidna Body/Human Body'' (2013)