Elizabeth Woods

Elizabeth Woods has been running temporary public participatory art projects across Australia and in Western Europe since 2003. These projects sit firmly between community art and contemporary art practices: they use imaginative, provocative and often humorous ideas to structure creative responses from members of the public, and ultimately, to produce outcomes that function as independent contemporary visual art works while serving as conduits for building skills and relationships within communities. In what has recently become a fashionable way of working, Woods' projects remain unusual in their generous, sympathetic and sensitive nature of public engagement and in their belief that goodwill and creative participation hold important keys to public access and ownership.

Woods holds a doctorate for her research into the development of meaningful relationships between art and community, has extensive teaching experience at pre‐school, primary, secondary and tertiary levels, which includes engagements with disabled and indigenous groups.