Place of Residency
Atelierhaus Eupen
“Any surface can be unmarked, marked, or layered with markings”: This is an archaeologist and an artist’s thinking, but with a difference. The artist could add markings. The archaeologist shouldn’t. Elizabeth Hoak-Doering (CY / US) is an artist with a new PhD in Classical archaeology - about nonsymbolic graffiti (scratches, swoops, dots). She came to Cyprus on a US Fulbright scholarship to study ancient sculptural practices, and stayed on, writing and making artwork about political identity, stone re-use and more. She became a professor of fine art.
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
On the Edge of No-Man’s Land in 1998
sketch for a panel
using inscribed graffiti found in 1998, from the buildings along the army-patrolled UN Buffer Zone in Nicosia CY
100 x 75 cm, ink, calque (2017)
Photo: Nicos Loucas
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
Field Notebook, 2 pages
Records from the former Stasi remand prison, Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Traced prison graffiti. From one of four notebooks
A3 notebook, calque (2020) Photo: Nicos Loucas
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
History, Sideways, detail
from a commissioned work for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt
One of four panels composed of inscribed graffiti (14th - 20th c.) found in Cyprus
Inscribed Perspex panel 39 x 200 x 1cm (2018)
Discipline
site-specific installations
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
Things, Witnesses
Kinetic installation at the Maison de l’Architecture, Amiens FR 2010
Borrowed furniture, graphite, Mylar, motion detectors and motors. Photo: Pravdoliub Ivanov
Her recent works explore and document mark making in ancient and modern graffiti, transforming archaeological field work (contact tracing, documentation, digital illustration, data analysis) into research based visual art (frottage, photography, various printmaking, drawing, book arts, projected animation). These, and other works of kinetic installation and experimental drawing have been presented in venues such as Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (DE); The Manege, Moscow (RU); The Drawing Center, NY (US), Lisson Gallery London (UK) Nicosia Municipal Art Centre (CY); Espaces Commines, Paris (FR); MAC, Rio de Janeiro (BR) and The 54th Venice Biennale of Art, Cyprus national pavilion (IT). Her works are in public collections including The European Central Bank, Frankfurt (DE); Cypriot State Gallery of Contemporary Art (CY), the Mead Art Museum, Amherst (US).
Discipline
site-specific installations
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
Things, Witnesses
Kinetic installation at the Maison de l’Architecture, Amiens FR 2010
Borrowed furniture, graphite, Mylar, motion detectors and motors. Photo: Pravdoliub Ivanov
Her recent works explore and document mark making in ancient and modern graffiti, transforming archaeological field work (contact tracing, documentation, digital illustration, data analysis) into research based visual art (frottage, photography, various printmaking, drawing, book arts, projected animation). These, and other works of kinetic installation and experimental drawing have been presented in venues such as Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (DE); The Manege, Moscow (RU); The Drawing Center, NY (US), Lisson Gallery London (UK) Nicosia Municipal Art Centre (CY); Espaces Commines, Paris (FR); MAC, Rio de Janeiro (BR) and The 54th Venice Biennale of Art, Cyprus national pavilion (IT). Her works are in public collections including The European Central Bank, Frankfurt (DE); Cypriot State Gallery of Contemporary Art (CY), the Mead Art Museum, Amherst (US).