Lizzie's works are intimate, sometimes in scale and always in the world they present. They force the viewer to look inwards, and what is found there is reflective and expansive in turn propelling the viewer outward.

Referencing the framework of scientific illustration and the cataloguing of natural history Dove presents her works in complex formations, books on stands, in museum-like cases, in miniscule tins. Using the language of the colonialists with their need to order and name, an abstraction occurs, where we are allowed half-glimpses and partial views.

In searching for source books Lizzie looks for that which is evocative to her. She has a love of the physicality of books, their texture, density, smell, the way pages move. Lizzie finds it provocative to breath new life into a mostly redundant but intrinsically beautiful object.

Link to Daily Imprint blog review

Link to feature article in Country Style APRIL 08

Link to feature in Inside Out