Eliza Owen, b. 1997, is a London based artist and recent graduate of The Ruskin School of Art.

Eliza’s work focuses on movement between landscape and the architectural structures we build within that space. Memories of landscape inform the materiality of the work which plays with lightness, air, and fragility in relation to stronger structural forms and colours. Eliza builds installations that recreate the world around her in the abstract. She reiterates the installations in map-like objects, prints, and in paintings. She hopes that the work retains a humble quality where one world easily shifts into another and simple objects hold greater significance. Her objects precariously balance on vertical and horizontal planes tying together the way that man-made constructions are held, balanced, and eventually washed away by the lines of land and sea and gravity.

Education: The Ruskin School of Art (1st class Honours)

Awards:

Winner of the Vivien Leigh prize, awarded by the Ashmolean Museum (2022), for the print ‘Light Flecks Through the Trees’, chosen to be part of their permanent collection.

Winner of the Mansfield-Ruddock Prize (2022) with the support of The Ruddock Foundation of the Arts.

Eliza is currently working on an installation for Mansfield College’s (Oxford University) collection of contemporary art.