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Description:
Sarah Elson
phloem poetica
12 Feb - 05 Apr 10
(PICA)
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

phloem poetica
12 Feb - 05 Apr 10
Westend Gallery, PICA
Installation and detail views

Previous recipient of the prestigious 
Samstag scholarship and MFA graduate 
from the Chelsea College of Art in London
Perth artist Sarah Elson has conceived her 
most expansive body of work yet for a solo 
exhibition in PICA's Westend Gallery. 

Sarah Elson's practice involves making 
painstakingly intricate castings of small plant
and insects; flower bulbs, leaves, burrs, cicadas
and beetles. Her sculptures are often mounted on
pins studded directly into the gallery walls like
displaced specimens. Her interest in the politics of
artifacts and materials and how value is perceived
is developed in Elson's laboratory-like use of PICA's
gallery by amassing together different metals
delicate casts and organic forms

Sarah Elson is represented by
Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth