About
Liz Faul has been a practising artist for more than 20 years. She trained formally as a professional calligrapher in the UK, and completed a Bachelor of Graphic Design at the University of Canberra. She has had several solo exhibitions, most recently at Kinkora Gallery Queanbeyan in 2022, Helen Stephens Gallery, Collector in 2020, Belconnen Arts Centre in 2017, and M16 Artspace in 2016, 2015 and 2013. She won the CCAS Members’ Exhibition in 2016, the NOW Shoalhaven Contemporary Prize in 2013 and the Weereewa Festival prize in 2010. Faul exhibits frequently in curated group shows, both in Canberra and interstate, including at red gallery in Melbourne in 2018, 2017 and 2015. She was a finalist in the Blake Prize 2006 and the Arte Laguna Festival in Italy in 2009.
Faul’s most recent artworks are of wildlife, especially Australian fauna, insects and birds. With these subjects she uses gouache and graphite, usually in combination, to make representational images of beautiful native birds, macropods and insects. Her concern for the natural environment and an enduring interest in its non-human inhabitants inform her work, particularly in relation to destruction of habitat, wildlife eradication and climate emergency.
Her collage work combines painted papers, recycled printed materials, found papers, turps release printing and her own illustrations on canvasses or boxes.
She currently works from a studio at M16 Artspace.
Further details are available in my CV