Elspeth Tometzki- BA (Hons) Fine Art
Investigating the quiet histories embedded within architectural space, Elspeth Tometzki’s practice explores traces of human interaction through photography, screenprint, video and site-specific installation. Emerging from sustained observation of the studio environment, the work focuses on the marks, stains, scuffs and residues dispersed across its walls. Once overlooked, these subtle impressions became evidence of movement, labour, touch and the passage of time.
Interested in how spaces accumulate experience, Tometzki approaches the wall as an active surface where gestures settle and persist. Through documentation, mapping, mechanical reproduction and reprinting, these ephemeral traces are translated back into architectural form. Screenprinting functions as a process of preservation, embedding fragments of lived experience within a reconstructed structure.
The rebuilt wall exists between archive and illusion, presence and absence. Acting as a map of occupation, it reveals what remains after an experience has passed while drawing attention to what can no longer be fully recovered.
