Elizabeth Pulie is a Sydney-based artist who has been exhibiting her work since 1989. Initially involved in a ten-year conceptual painting practice testing art’s ontology via the creation of decorative paintings, she moved to a relational practice between 2000 and 2005 where she ran Front Room (an artist-run space in the front room of her house); wrote, edited and published the magazine Lives of the Artists, and
initiated an artist’s group, Sydney Ladies Artists Club.

The title of the painting is preceded by #56: this indicates the works’ consecutive placement in the series of works that constitute my end-of-art project, which I commenced in 2012. This project questions the nature of contemporary art by making an end of art statement alongside the continuing production of art, meaning my work as an artist attempts an equal involvement with theory and practice.

Within this project, the work I create embodies the diverse nature of contemporary art in its openness to
form. It entails experimentation with new mediums, styles, and subject matter as a reflection of the
ambivalence of the contemporary moment.

 

Elizabeth Pulie – March 2016