Elizabeth Hefty
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury is a London born writer and artist, and co-owner of Bloom Gallery in Valencia, Spain. Her work often deals with symbolic interpretation of the body. Issues such as grief, mental illness, violence, and inequality inform her use of the corporeal as a representation of the emotional being. As well as an MFA in Painting, Elizabeth holds a MA in Celtic Studies, and her interest in comparative mythology forms an important part of her research methodology. She believes that a painting holds multiple narratives, interpretable through different viewpoints and experience. Her figures are deliberately fragmented and abstracted, faceless and often with gender ambiguous.
Hefty-Khoury's writing embraces poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, weaving threads of fantasy through prosaic realities. The relationship between text and the visual is another area of interest to her, as can be seen in her series, Imagined Idioma.
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