About the Artist
Elizabeth Thomson (born 1955, Auckland) graduated with an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 1989. Since then her work has been exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and abroad. A major survey exhibition, ‘My hi-fi my sci-fi’ opened at City Gallery Wellington in 2006 then toured nationally. At Aratoi, Wairarapa, ‘Cellular Memory’: a survey exhibition 1989–2017 opened, and is at present touring nationally. Alongside the work of Len Lye, her art featured in the major two-person exhibition, ‘Waking up slowly’, at the Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, in 2018. Based in Wellington since 1991, she works in a converted factory in the suburb of Newtown.
