El Brasington- BA (Hons) Fine Art
El Brasington operates at the threshold between painting, traditional craft and science. She is interested in the liminal spaces that bring together the human and more-than-human. El is fascinated by the unpredictability of natural blackberry lake pigment, in particular playing with the pH conditions of this living medium to shift colour and form. She views her practice as a collaboration with these raw materials, letting the pigment speak with it’s own will. Utilising needle felting, she layers natural forms, witnessing them become both 2D and 3D within a space. This uncanny use of material becomes reminiscent of things that accumulate over time: hair, mould, cobwebs and bacteria that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
El’s practice is both intuitive and informed by the materials she uses, working in synch with the organic beings and foregrounding the interconnected network of relations that exists between the human and non-human. By joining this with an exploration into different spaces, her work moves beyond the constrains of time and place. Through offering the audience. to temporarily step into an environment that is both real and imagined, her work offers a space to contemplate, slower ways of being and acts of care in a fast-paced environment.
Through changing positions and different light conditions forms appear and disappear, encouraging the viewer to embrace the ambiguity of liminal thinking.
