Faces that are more than just a portrait; faces that are simultaneously mirrors and windows. An exhibtion of drawings by young South Australian artist Elizabeth Pascale.

Carclew Youth Arts Exhibition Program 

A project of Carclew Youth Arts

Elizabeth Pascale says: As a young adult learning about the world we live in and everyone in it, I have found myself captivated by the way a person’s face can act as both a mirror and a window. A face most often appears aware at being looked at, like a mirror, but at times this mirror drops and the face becomes a window and offers the viewer a glimpse of what is inside. At art school I focused this idea on the recurring emotion I glimpsed from young people at the time, which was melancholy. I found that a camera could capture this fleeting emotion revealed on a person’s face that I would otherwise miss if I were to reproduce it with my own eye. A love for the camera as a useful and unique tool to use in art thus developed, and as time has passed I have used a camera to instantly record hundreds of expressions which give hints at what the face is thinking, feeling, being.  I have also turned the camera upon myself, to read my own face from a different perspective. I prefer to draw these faces instead of presenting them as photos as it allows me to emphasize, develop, and better present, what is glimpsed. I enjoy faces that are more than just a portrait; faces that are simultaneously mirrors and windows.

Works are available for sale

Elizabeth is a recent young Bachelor of Visual Arts graduate from the Adelaide Central School of Art after four years’ continuous study. As a recipient of the Pro Hart Scholarship for the Most Outstanding Secondary Student, she majored in painting, and also undertook photography, drawing, and sculpture. She has exhibited in many group exhibitions over the last seven years, most recently the Mullet Art Fair at Norwood in 2005 where she received first prize in painting. She is currently studying a Masters in Curatorial and Museum Studies in Adelaide whilst continuing her work in the visual arts.

Image: Elizabeth Pascale Untitled pencil on paper