10 February - 31 March, 2012

Kelly's Garden,
Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart

Elizabeth Woods' work at Kelly's Garden, Hobart, is part fiction, part art installation, part public event, part fund-raiser. In a mock-funerary rite, the opening event presented a blue-grey 1967 Toyota Corona, descended upon by a murder of crows, amidst the sombre notes of a gipsy accordion - the guests paid their last respects and shared fond remembrances of Porphyry, the once-illustrious visionary who died in tragic obscurity, rendered obsolete by contemporary conservatism.

In the ensuing months, the work will be the prize in a fund-raising raffle, a procedure that will eventually reduce the work from the status of art to a collection of practical, usable and imminently saleable commodities - dissolving the vision into the mundane.

The proceeds of the raffle will be donated to the Salamanca Arts Centre and the results will be announced, both on this site and on www.salarts.org.au, on the 31st of March, 2012.

Please contact the artist for more information on ticket sales.

12th November, 2011

Hobart Town Hall,
Hobart, Tasmania

What do you find beautiful?

Elizabeth Woods posed this question to hundreds of Hobartians in her search for delightful people and their ideas. The product of this search was a public event where eighteen of Hobart's most beautiful thinkers competed for the title of The Most Beautiful Person of 2011. The contestants reflected, recited, sang, danced, cooked and undressed for a packed house, to convince the judges that they were the most charming, sincere, awe-inspiring and provocative on the day.