Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, will present Elizabeth Corkery’s Ruin Sequence now through May, 2017. There will be a reception with the artist on Saturday, October 8 at 2 pm. Corkery’s current practice focuses on constructed garden environments and their complex relationship to the passage of time. Elizabeth traveled through the United Kingdom during the summer of 2016, visiting and documenting specific English landscape gardens, and producing a new body of work during a month-long residency in London. Her new work will be on display from October 2016 to May 2017 in the conservatories of Tower Hill. For more information visit www.towerhillbg.org.
About the Artist
Elizabeth Corkery (b. 1986, Sydney, Australia) received her MFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2013 where she was the recipient of the John Hartell Graduate Award in recognition of excellence in graduate studio practice. She moved to the United States in 2004 after completing her BFA (Hons) in Printmaking from the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, spending two years living and working in Brooklyn, NY before commencing her graduate studies. Elizabeth has received production and research funding from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Somerville Arts Council, Cornell Council for the Arts and Australian philanthropic organizations The Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and The Australia Council. In 2016 she was a part of the London Summer Intensive, run collaboratively through the Slade School of Fine Art and Camden Arts Centre, funded in full by a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Elizabeth currently lives and works in Providence, RI.
