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Camberwell College of Arts   2008/2009

Elizabeth McAlpine

EIizabeth McAlpine works mainly with time-based media and she describes her working practice as close to geology. She tracks the repetitions and gestures inherent In popular media, extracting pieces of found material from its archive, and repositions them in ways that reveal patterns and associations previously unconsidered.

EIizabeth McAlpine is working on a series of works titled Fiction Map; these pieces use text of landmarks and street names taken from American fiction and organize them to create a real geographical route. The project is ongoing and attempts to create a route from the East to the West coast of the USA. The opportunity to be part of the AA2A scheme at Camberwell College will allow the collection of landmarks to be realized Into a series of maps, which In turn will be made as Iarge-scale etchings and a limited edition book.

Elizabeth McAlpine is based In London and studied MFA sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and Fine Art and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, London.