Elizabeth Briel | Sydney, Australia
Elizabeth Briel is an artist and travel-writer with an Asian focus. She has recently illustrated her first book about Hong Kong [ http://thingsasianpress.com/detail_hisforhongkong.htm ] photographed her second [ http://lostandfoundhk.thingsasian.com/book ]and is writing another about her quest through Thailand, Laos & Vietnam in search of the perfect paper.
Her checkered history began in California with an ex-nun and Catholic professor for parents, and she has since been a sculpture apprentice in Tuscany; founded a community gallery in Hong Kong; run a solo charity project teaching photography to kids in Cambodia while working as a radio DJ; created a DIY study-abroad program in France; recruited artists for a show in a decrepit legwarmer factory for the first Liverpool Bienniale Fringe; and painted faux marble on pillars of the Venetian Macau.
Currently she is based in both Sydney and Asia, and will be in North America during Fall 2010.
Elizabeth's work presented in this auction is from a marvelous series of photographs taken in Vietnam, and then printed using the antique process of Cyanotyping, which was the forerunner of architectural blueprinting.
